Bookworm on Jan 31 2013 | Filed under: Children, Culture, Education
Tweet I know I’m just grumpy, but this promotional mailing from Ithaca College rubbed me the wrong way: Ready to write environmental wrongs. Ithaca College will turn your academic passions into unforgettable experiences — and make you ready for the adventure of your life. I know that the first sentence is meant to be a [...]
Bookworm on Jan 19 2013 | Filed under: Children, Education
Tweet Conservatives often talk about the fact that Progressives use children as a wedge issue for everything. Changes in immigration law? It’s to protect those poor children whose parents illegally dragged them across the border. Changes in health care law? It’s so that children, right up until the childlike age of 26, can get full [...]
Bookworm on Aug 15 2012 | Filed under: Abortion, Parenting
Tweet One of my favorite silly jokes goes as follows: A man runs into a friend. “Oh, my God!” he says. “I just made the most terrible Freudian slip.” His friend asks “What did you do?” The man answers, “Well, I was having lunch with my mother. I meant to saying ‘Mom, please pass the [...]
Bookworm on Jul 23 2012 | Filed under: Children, Parenting
Tweet So much of parenting is about communication. Because children listen with their hearts as well as their minds, that communication had better be honest. If it’s not, your child will instantly know you for either a fool or a liar. Being honest, though, is not the same as being judgmental. There is a time [...]
Bookworm on Jun 13 2012 | Filed under: Children
Tweet PJ Media has had two interesting posts about whether familial genetic legacies are the right reason not to have a baby. David Swindle passes on an article about the fact that well-known “comedienne” Sarah Silverman (I use the scare quotes because I don’t think she’s funny) announced recently that she will not have children [...]
Bookworm on May 11 2012 | Filed under: Children, Media matters
Tweet Let’s put aside the laughable fact that the MSM has had to go back to 1965, when Romney was a teenager, to find something bad about him (or, more specifically, something bad about him and a putatively gay person). This ridiculous attack has naturally generated attacks against Obama and Biden, both of whom, either [...]
Bookworm on Apr 10 2012 | Filed under: Open Threads
Tweet I’m surrounded by young people who, as is the nature of young people, are in a hurry to grow up. They see being “grown up” as this Paradise where no one bosses you around, where you get to have as much candy as you can buy, where there’s no homework, and where you get [...]
Bookworm on Dec 04 2011 | Filed under: Education
Tweet We spend a lot of time talking here about the way our Progressive culture infantilizes young people. Just think about the way the whole liberal world had a collective head explosion when Newt suggested that young people get jobs to learn the value of discipline and achieve the satisfaction of wages. But all is [...]
Bookworm on Dec 03 2011 | Filed under: Newt Gingrich
Tweet One of the reasons a lot of people, myself included, like Newt is because he says politically incorrect things that ordinary people think. In other words, his politically correct utterances aren’t out of the KKK playbook, they’re out of “the reasonable common-sense before 1960s Leftist education took over” playbook. A week ago, he said [...]
Bookworm on Nov 18 2011 | Filed under: Parenting, personal responsibility
Tweet 11B40 asked a good question, which is why I’m so focused on McQueary, when it was Sandusky who committed the crime. It’s because I have no fellow feeling with Sandusky who, if the allegations are true, is a perverted monster. I therefore don’t need to analyze my behavior or parenting decisions with regard to [...]
Bookworm on Oct 01 2011 | Filed under: Children, Parenting
Tweet It would be so nice if my children had inherited only my best qualities, plus their father’s best qualities too. Then, they would have been brilliant, talented and gorgeous. But that’s not how it worked out. For one thing, they’ve got qualities, such as athleticism and self-discipline, that neither my husband nor I have. [...]
Bookworm on Jan 03 2010 | Filed under: Children, Parenting
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Sep 24 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Children, Education
Tweet The conservative internet is appropriately riled by a video of New Jersey public school children singing a song to the Obama: Lyrics ======== 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 [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2009 | Filed under: Afghanistan, Children, Muslim violence
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Sep 08 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet My daughter, who attends middle school, told me that she understood the the take-away message from Obama’s speech to be “The future is your responsibility,” a thought she found unpleasantly burdensome. Generally, she thought the speech was long and boring. As for the “tomorrow belongs to you” aspect of Obama’s little talk, my mind [...]
Bookworm on Mar 06 2009 | Filed under: Education, England, GBLT
Tweet The article only interviewed Muslim parents, but it’s clear Christians were involved as well. These were the parents in England who pulled their young children out of school rather than have the children be subject to a month long GLBT indoctrination, er, education sessions — and who are now being threatened with government sanctions. [...]
Bookworm on Dec 21 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Education
Tweet As we were driving back to the ‘burbs from an outing in San Francisco today, we saw a rare sight: an older lady nattily attired in furs. Standing near her was a young woman, screaming into the lady’s face. The children were mesmerized. First, they’d never seen furs and, second, the spectacle of a [...]
Bookworm on Oct 01 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Children, Climate change, England
Tweet 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, [...]
Bookworm on Sep 30 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Children
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Aug 07 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet Even thought I didn’t and couldn’t post yesterday, it didn’t mean I wasn’t paying attention. I have a whole bunch of links I want to share with you. I won’t take too much time on any one link, because I have only a short time before the Mom stuff starts again (summer, you know), [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Children, England
Tweet 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 expects it and [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Children, Communism, Parenting
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on May 01 2008 | Filed under: Children, Silly Stuff
Tweet I don’t remember how the conversation started, but a few days ago I found myself explaining to my children that, amongst all human beings, regardless of their race or culture, there is one common denominator for beauty: symmetry. This means that whether a culture measures beauty by fair or dark skin, light or dark [...]
Bookworm on Apr 02 2008 | Filed under: Education
Tweet Every election, education is a big issue for voters, because Americans have a strong feeling that public schools are not serving their kids well. Many blame funding for the problem. As regular readers know, I tend not to blame either funding or the individual teachers. Instead, I believe that the methodology embraced by all [...]
Bookworm on Mar 19 2008 | Filed under: Children
Tweet I had my day all planned. I was going to head out early for a one hour talk at the local school regarding cyber bullying, and then I was going to come home and blog a while about Obama’s speech, since I’ve had more time to think about it. But the best laid plans [...]
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