Bookworm on Feb 15 2010 | Filed under: Children, Conservative ideology
The dodo, as you may recall, is extinct. I wonder, though, how many people remember why the dodo became extinct. It was because, lacking any serious natural predators in their homeland of Mauritius, the dodos were a bit too friendly to incoming colonists (and their animals), and simply allowed themselves to be eaten into oblivion:
As [...]
Bookworm on Feb 10 2010 | Filed under: Children, Education, GBLT, San Francisco
Two days ago, I brought to your attention the fact that the San Francisco School Board — despite facing a $113 million dollar budget shortfall over the next two years, despite its admission that it will be cutting summer school and academic programs, and despite the fact that there has not been a sudden outbreak [...]
Bookworm on Feb 07 2010 | Filed under: Children
As you have probably guessed from my blog silence this weekend, I have been heavily engaged in various family activities, many of which seemed to involve soccer balls or (this weekend) footballs. I haven’t had lots of time to think about current events (which must, in any event, take a back seat to the Superbowl), [...]
Bookworm on Feb 03 2010 | Filed under: Children, Sex
This is an entirely hypothetical scenario, because my daughter is only 12, and I’m not planning on her dating for at least another fifteen or twenty years, if not more. However, the sad fact is that, contrary to my entirely reasonable wishes, the dating scene is going to start in three or four years — [...]
Bookworm on Jan 27 2010 | Filed under: Abortion, Children, San Francisco, Sex
My views on abortion have changed mightily over the years. The selfish, immature side of me still longs for a pro-choice label, but the mature, moral side of me has concluded that, subject to a few exceptions, pro-Life is the way to go. I won’t expand on that right now, but you can see more [...]
Bookworm on Jan 21 2010 | Filed under: Children, Education, Immigration
My daughter’s Spanish class has spent the last couple of days watching a movie. I know many people who learned English by watching American television, so I don’t have a problem with using movies as a teaching device. I do, however, have a big problem with the movie chosen — La Misma la Luna — [...]
Bookworm on Jan 03 2010 | Filed under: Children, Parenting
In Marin County, spanking a child is a very dangerous activity. Although spanking is not illegal, it’s enough to entangle you with Child Protective Services and, from that moment on, parenting life as you know it is over. Despite the danger, when my kids were little, I spanked them. With two unguided missiles, sometimes the [...]
Bookworm on Oct 06 2009 | Filed under: Children
The first scandal that unfolded was an autobiographical confession from Kevin Jennings, Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar.” Jennings proudly wrote that, when he elicited from a teenage boy the fact that the teenager was sexually involved with an adult man, Jennings didn’t flinch. Unconcerned about such minutiae as statutory rape, child abuse, and pedophilia, Jennings focused [...]
Bookworm on Sep 27 2009 | Filed under: Children, Education
I’ve been nostalgic lately, and have been thinking a lot about my favorite stories and books from my elementary school days in the late 1960s and early 1970s. One story I particularly remember from my time as a 4th grader was about a teacher who had in her class a girl from a very run [...]
Bookworm on Sep 24 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, Children, Media matters, Sarah Palin, United Nations
I have a bunch of open tabs on my monitor, so I’m just going to jumble all of the stuff here, in one post:
On Obama, the UN, and the World:
I noted yesterday that Obama seems to have a huge problem with the more democratic nations in the world, and a corresponding affinity for the totalitarian [...]
Bookworm on Sep 24 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Children, Education
The conservative internet is appropriately riled by a video of New Jersey public school children singing a song to the Obama:
Lyrics
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Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that all must lend a hand [?]
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be clear today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein [...]
Bookworm on Sep 23 2009 | Filed under: Children
I’m struggling to figure out if there’s a larger message to the true story I’m about to tell, or if it just reflects the virulent sibling rivalry that my children feel towards each other. As my daughter herself said when she realized how successful the new regime is, “We’re not very nice people, are we?”
I [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2009 | Filed under: Afghanistan, Children, Muslim violence
The American and world media go into a screaming frenzy whenever American or Israeli troops injure or kill a child. They do this despite the fact that such incidents are rare and, more significantly, they are aberrant: both the American and the Israeli military go out of their way to avoid injuring civilians, even if [...]
Bookworm on Aug 02 2009 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Children, Palestinians
One thing I have to give credit to Barack Obama for being is a complete pragmatist, even if that pragmatism operates to the exclusion of moral decency. Witness his decision to jettison Israel entirely (something Elliott Abrams explains carefully here) in order to placate the Muslim world. Many think that Obama’s affinity for the Muslim [...]
Bookworm on Jan 10 2009 | Filed under: Children, Hamas, Israel, Palestinians
Hamas has been making much of its dead children. It had a field day with photos of those children who died when the IDF shot shells into a “UN school.” Most of the world (including, of course, a credulous and/or complicit media) managed to ignore the fact that it’s bizarre that, in the midst of [...]
Bookworm on Jan 06 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, Children, Christians, England, Gay marriage, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Religion
It’s been an incoherent day, one that never gave me the opportunity for contemplation and writing. Instead, I’ve been bopping here and there, and dealing with one thing and another. Nevertheless, I have been tracking the news, so I thought I’d just write up a mish-mash of thoughts about current issues and events.
Gaza
The top issue/event, [...]
Bookworm on Dec 17 2008 | Filed under: Children
I plowed through my inbox today, which is always an overwhelming task. Over the course of a week, I ended up with a 500 email backlog. Amongst those 500 emails, however, were a couple of treasures.
The first was information about a grassroots organization aimed at creating a coherent opposition to Obama’s wackier proposed projects. Check [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2008 | Filed under: Children, Education
I didn’t put this on my site because (a) I found it so terribly disturbing I wasn’t yet prepared to deal with it and (b) I pretty much assumed you’d see it on all the other sites (including Drudge) that carry it. Still, Deana is right that we cannot do enough to expose the humiliating [...]
Bookworm on Oct 01 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Children, Climate change, England
It was only yesterday that the creepy video emerged from Hollywood showing kids singing a song of worship to the golden world that will emerge when Obama ascends to the White House. In connection with that video, I noted that the indoctrination of children reminded me very strongly of the way in which Hitler, with [...]
Bookworm on Sep 30 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Children
One of the most horrific things about both the Nazis and the Communists was the way in which they indoctrinated children. Children were encouraged to place the State — and especially the state’s leader, whether Hitler or Stalin — above the family, and to give their loyalty to the former, not the latter. Unhappy parents [...]
Don Quixote on Jul 03 2008 | Filed under: Capitalism, Children, Welfare, personal responsibility
Here in California, the hands-free cell phone law went into effect July 1. (By the way, does anyone know whether there was an actual increase in traffic accidents after cell phones became popular?) This morning, I heard a story that said that 1,800 fires and dozens of injuries resulted from fireworks last year. Of course, in [...]
Bookworm on Jun 21 2008 | Filed under: Children, Parenting
All of us have noted a trend, one that is especially prevalent in public schools, to insulate kids from losing. I know that my kids’ public school, as part of its master plan, has instituted a policy by which the kids don’t do any competitive sports on campus in order to protect them from dealing [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Children, England
I have to admit that I never potty trained my children. Instead, I sent them to a Montessori preschool. By the time each was about 25 months old, he or she was completely potty trained. The Montessori approach simply integrates visits to the potty into the toddler curriculum. Since the teacher [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Children, Communism, Parenting
I never thought about it, but I was running my house like a commune. The kids had chores to do, of course, but the incentive was the greater good, my approbation, and an allowance that, in their minds, had no relationship to the tasks demanded. The kids did not find these incentives inspiring, and the [...]
Bookworm on Jun 07 2008 | Filed under: Children
This has been a very, very long day. The morning was the usual stuff: swim meets, shopping, house cleaning, choral concerts, but the afternoon was a doozy.
I had my son’s birthday party this afternoon, and had invited only the neighborhood boys, who are a very nice, albeit somewhat rambunctious crew. During the day, however, my [...]
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