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Posted on 10/05/2004 3:33:41 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
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Home is behind, the world ahead, |
I am reminded of a couple homeschool families I knew who wouldn't let their kids read fiction "because of the bad stuff". The kids got stuck with biographies of martyrs and accounts of the battle of Gettysburg. I always thought there was something a little twisted about that.
Bob's my Dad's name. I don't wanna confuse my little sister...
Heh...I'm surpised they allow 'em to read fiction at all.
Fred... Joe... Egbert... Northrup... Trevor...
Oops, you beat me to it.
Egbert?
*shudder*
Gotta wonder who EVER thought that was a good idea.
No idea. Maybe Bible names? Hezekiah, Uziah, Theophilus?
We're on the last of the Hardy Boys books the boys got for Christmas last year...A Wrinkle in Time is next and I'm SO EXCITED!
I haven't read the book in years and I'm just looking forward to reading it again. I'm thinking of reading it over the holidays and reading it to the whole family. Steve hasn't read it. He didn't read at all when he was young, they told him he was low-average, stuck him in with the ne'er-do-well types and he was just lost. I figured out after hearing him read some billboards that he was dyslexic. He had EVERYTHING turned around.
He ended up teaching Matthew to read using The Junior Phonics Game and in the process taught himself. He could read, he just didn't know HOW to read, if that makes sense.
So he missed out on some really good books because he thought he was too stupid to read.
I actually worked with someone who planned to call their next son Obediah. Which I guess is better than some in the scheme of things, but...
Crap like that really ticks me off. My mother had a sort of similar thing happen in that when she was little, she really wanted to learn to play an instrument. The music teacher at their school told her (before they even really had any classes) that she was a) totally untalented and b) incapable of learning to read music. Now...to begin with music doesn't "belong" to the talented. It's something anyone can enjoy. Secondly, she was NOT untalented! She had a very nice voice and a better ear and sense of rhythm than many of us in the family. After years of us telling her she could do it, she finally started taking cello lessons about a year before she died. She played out with us twice at church related functions and was just thrilled with it all.
It burns me up that she was deprived of that joy for so many years just because some creep of a teacher didn't like her personally or was too impatient to teach.
Sorry for going off on a personal tangent, but...grrrrrr!
I know, sis...I know. I get a little irritated sometimes that Steve's mom let them get away with it.
Getting his masters is like a kick in the snoot.
My soup turned out yummy! I'm going to bake a nice new loaf of bread and have it ready for Steve when he gets home. He's coming home early so we can go hear Dr. Dobson.
The "guidance counselor" at our high school told my sister she wasn't college material. Sister felt pretty smug when she got her Masters.
I was always the last person anyone ever picked in PE for team sports. I thought of that when I crossed the finish line when I ran my marathon. 26 miles in 4 hrs 36 mins 21 seconds.
All those kids in my PE classes can blow that right out their shorts.
:-)
My dad was told by the music teacher in elementary school that he couldn't sing. So he won't, except in church, and it's too bad because he has a very good voice.
I like music, even if I'm not that good at it. I sing while in the car, or working at home, or walking through the parking lot (ok, that gets me some stares)
Yeah, I can see how that could be a problem!
Up here, I'd mulch the plants heavily, but then I have to worry about the ground freezing around the roots. I don't think y'all have that problem. Maybe you just need to clean up old branches, leaves, etc. Being from the area, OT could know better what you's need to do.
After those, we might pick up the C. S. Lewis space trilogy. I've never read those, and neither have the kids. SSQ just loves them.
Well, she was of the generation that bought into the notion that "We're the professionals, don't try this at home". Our parents assumed that the teachers knew the correct thing to do for the kids. Thankfully, not everyone accepts that nowadays, and parents will be advocates for their children when they believe their children need help.
Well, we're off on a short errand... have to find a gift for Sonya's baby shower tomorrow.
I'd really like to buy the kid a skateboard.
Heh...
When is she due? I've forgotten.
Man...time flies.
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