Bookworm on Feb 02 2008 | Filed under: Children, Parenting
A few months ago, I did a post about out-of-control children who seemed to be the product, not of biological pathology, but of boundary-free parenting. A couple of weeks ago, I did a post about parents who were afraid to exert control over their children because of their fear of Child Protective Services. And last [...]
Bookworm on Dec 12 2007 | Filed under: Children, Education
I received this email from a friend, who thought that you all might have some useful input about a recent policy change at her daughter’s elementary school:
Apparently a boy got hit in the head playing football at recess and hurt himself, though I don’t know in what way or how badly.
The school’s response has been [...]
Bookworm on Nov 14 2007 | Filed under: Children, Jihad, Muslim violence
I have one more school children post I want to do today, and this one is scary and depressing. It’s also not new, because it’s an issue that’s been around and about which I’ve blogged before: the possible terrorist threat to our children. Danny Lemieux gave me the heads up about the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Children, Education
“I’m not a child development expert, but I play one on TV.”
Wait. That’s not what I meant to say, but it just sounded so silly, I had to. What I really meant to say is that I’m not a child development expert, but I hang around with a whole bunch of kids. [...]
Bookworm on Nov 12 2007 | Filed under: Children, Education
I was perusing the “site plan” for my kids’ school, a document that spells out what the school’s goals are regarding education and the means by which they put those goals into effect. After deciphering the usual cant and education babble, I learned that our school wants to teach our kids to read, write, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Children, Climate change, Education
Schools constantly complain about the pressure to meet actual academic standards, but they somehow always find time to beat the children over the heads with social or political issues — and always from the point of view of the Lefter side of the political spectrum:
Third-grade teacher Debbie Robles made her acting debut before a packed [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Children, Parenting
One of Hitler’s most evilly inspired ideas was to go after the young people, and turn them into spies in their own parents’ homes. It’s so much easier to grab children’s minds, and parents never assume that, not only are their children watching them, they can be co-opted, innocently, into ratting them out to people [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Children, Education, Parenting
I’m still irked about the middle school in Portland, Maine that had the bright idea to bypass parents and give birth control pills to little girls. My irritation goes beyond the fact that the school district is using a very small number of pregnancies and bad situations to usurp parents’ control over and relationship [...]
Bookworm on Nov 02 2007 | Filed under: Children, Health, Parenting
I’m about to write something provocative, so feel free to beat me up on it, provided that you do so politely. It’s about the increasing prevalence of Asbergers diagnoses amongst children. Asbergers is a rather amorphous condition, although it’s considered to be part of the Autism spectrum. Here’s the definition from one [...]
Bookworm on Oct 28 2007 | Filed under: Children, Climate change, Education
The global warming indoctrination is working — up to a point. In common with the school children in this John Stossel video, my children are worried about a climate change Armageddon and are hostile to Western culture because “it’s all our fault.” It’s a common topic of conversation. Hot days, cold days, nature shows — [...]
Bookworm on Oct 19 2007 | Filed under: Children
Old friends of mine used to joke that, once their children become teenagers, they’d start smoking so that their children could rebel against them by not smoking. They might have been on to something. In my home, where Mr. Bookworm likes TV very much, what I often hear from the kids is “Please don’t make [...]
Bookworm on Oct 14 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Children, Parenting
I used to have the worst children in the world. Truly, I did. And I knew that they were the worst children in the world because the evidence came out of my own mouth. I had to criticize them constantly because of the way they ignored instructions, the way they broke rules, [...]
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