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Word Games

As a kid I liked to play the game, Scrabble. We took the game very seriously in my family. We were all voracious readers and had large vocabularies, so the games were very interesting. Today I found a game called Bookworm and it reminds me a little of Scrabble. I downloaded the free trial and [...]

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Getting Parents Involved

The schools are so quick to blame the sorry state of education in America on the lack of parental involvement. I say it is baloney, but let’s take it seriously for just a moment. I challenge the educators to tell me exactly what do they want the parents to do differently? What kind of involvement [...]

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Where are the Magazines?

It might be my imagination, but I believe that there are fewer magazines on the racks. I have been looking for a couple of things to buy for children and I cannot find much at all. We used to have several magazines for children at the grocery store, and I never minded buying them for [...]

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Strange Cartoons

Spongebob Squarepants is not suitable for young children. There is way too much sexual innuendo on this cartoon. They say things like “Everyone wants to get into bikini bottom.” That is not what young children need to hear.

More Fires in No Cal

California continues to burn. The photos on Yahoo News are fascinating in a macbre way. The view from Sausalito eastward to the San Franciso skyline is usually crisp and clear except for a couple hours of fog in the mornings. Now it is a thick brown-gray haze of smoke from all the wildfires. It must [...]