without Tether-ball, Dodge-ball and the ever popular Kill the Guy WITH the Ball, what is there left to do during recess for straight boys???
Posted on 05/02/2005 12:00:14 PM PDT by beaversmom
IT hurt her feelings, says Jane Fonda, sharing her feelings, that one of her husbands liked them to have sexual threesomes. "It reinforced my feeling I wasn't good enough."
In the Scottsdale, Ariz., Unified School District office, the receptionist used to be called a receptionist. Now she is "director of first impressions." The happy director says, "Everyone wants to be important." Scottsdale school bus drivers now are "transporters of learners." A school official says such terminological readjustment is "a positive affirmation." Which beats a negative affirmation.
Manufacturers of pens and markers report a surge in teachers' demands for purple ink pens. When marked in red, corrections of students' tests seem so awfully judgmental.
Fonda's confession, Scottsdale's tweaking of terminology and the recoil from red markings are manifestations of today's therapeutic culture. The nature and menace of "therapism" is the subject of a new book, "One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance" by Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel, M.D., resident scholars at the American Enterprise Institute.
From childhood on, Americans are told by "experts" — therapists, self-esteem educators, traumatologists — that it is healthy for them continuously to take their emotional temperature, inventory their feelings and vent them. Never mind research indicating that reticence and suppression of feelings can be healthy.
Because children are considered terribly vulnerable and fragile, playground games like dodgeball are being replaced by anxiety-reducing games of tag where nobody is ever "out." But abundant research indicates no connection between high self-esteem and high achievement or virtue. Is not unearned self-esteem a more pressing problem?
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I saw on John Stewart show. Seems like a good read.
That sounds homophobic! What if some 8-year-old boy wants to "come out" -- but the rules say no one can ever be "out"! Think of the trauma!
LOL!!!
I wrote a short story about a newer cleaner hell. I turned the devils into ''customer service facilitators'' and the damned were forced into group hugs and public service announcements for all eternity.
A receptionist is called "Director of First Impressions"?
AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
False self esteem ping.
When my son went to public school the receptionist definitely gave a "first impression". I should have taken that first impression as a warning and run right then.
Just ordered it from my local library. It sounds great.
Psychobabble bullsqueeze!
We have become a Nation of touchy-feely wimps.
My son went to kindergarten at a public school. I attended their field day where they were having relay races with eggs. The kids were being very competitive--they wanted to know which line of kids won. One of the teachers proudly proclaimed "Everyone is a winner!" It didn't stop the kids though. They started trying to keep track and were saying, "We won, you're a loser!".
They were on c-span yesterday. Interesting!
"A receptionist is called "Director of First Impressions"?
AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!"
Sooooo...can I talk to the receptionist on my second visit to the office,...or do they have a specialist in second impressions? Sounds like a jobs program to me.
Yes, our beloved Medved. I used to buy into the victim mentality. It's really sickening now to me. It's kind of like how an ex-smoker must look at smokers.
Speaking of my favorite Jewish talk show hosts, I got to see Prager last night in Denver. They were having an Israel Awareness night at Faith Bible Chapel. I had never been there before. That place was absolutely huge and it was packed. It was lots of fun. Prager was the grand finale.
Been looking for Medved articles on google every other day or so but haven't come across any recent ones. Some articles include a reference to his name but aren't specifically about him. Keep your eyes peeled and I'll keep looking too.
A receptionist is called "Director of First Impressions"?
AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
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An AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!er is called
"Director of Mears Mumblings" !!! ;-))
without Tether-ball, Dodge-ball and the ever popular Kill the Guy WITH the Ball, what is there left to do during recess for straight boys???
We called "Kill the Guy WITH the Ball", Smear the queer. That would really go over well on today's playgrounds!
ain't that the truth!!! sometimes, as a kid, i think you've never been hit in the head with a ball, till you've been hit full on in the face with a real cold tether ball in the winter by the biggest kid in the class 8^)
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