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Idleness as a way of parenting.
I couldn't agree more. I run an award-winning web site for kids, Inkless Tales, at www.inklesstales.com - endorsed by the ALA, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and RIF - heavy hitters - and the site is all designed for learning - but the site is all rigorously tested first. By kids. For fun. My own kids? We have ''do-nothing'' days. Lots ...
Posted to Family by inklesstales on April 21, 2009
I also support Bristol Palin's Choice
But not her mom's ticket. I have a variation on Rachael Larimore's story. I was born in the 60's, as was my sister. I know that she was born to a 13 year old mother, but I don't know the circumstances of my own birth mother. Both of us were adopted by my parents as infants. If we were conceived after Roe v Wade, perhaps neither of us would ...
Posted to XX Factor by mattsh on September 3, 2008
This Generation
I am only 7 years removed from college. But what I see every day at the university I currently work at echoes this latest article from ''The Fray.'' Expectations for the generation currently at university are terrifically low. This boy had not matured enough through high school to care about his future, to the extent that he did not apply to ...
Posted to Family by shrike10997 on April 26, 2008