When Adorable Child was in elementary school, I volunteered to teach a Junior Achievement module. The subject was “Want vs Need”, and my targets were squirmy little six-year-olds in first grade.
Since I had an entire six weeks with which to work, I decided to build a frame first… and so we started with shoes […]
Dear Husband is out of town, Adorable Child has a Birthday Bash tonight, and Polimom’s back is to the wall.
As a result, I’m probably out of the loop for a few days, baking cakes and ordering pizzas and supervising hair-straightening and blowing up balloons. Lots of fun, but very time-consuming.
If the sky falls between […]
I used to hear it all the time.
AC: Mom, can I have a TV for my room?
Polimom: No, Adorable Child. The TV in the den is for us all to watch, and there’s another for the gameroom when you have friends over. We don’t need televisions everywhere in the house.
AC: […]
There’s an amusing little byplay on the blogospheric right this morning about some comments made by Obama yesterday. Speaking in Georgia (on a totally different topic), the subject of bilingualism came up (courtesy of Salon):
You know, I don’t understand when people are going around worrying about, “We need to have English- only.” They want […]
Some years ago, a gifted education specialist told me she thought that teaching gifted students to connect with the needs of wider society through community service was a crucial, important missing piece in GT education. That may be true, but what I thought at the time was that there’s little to connect any person […]