[summer]

I was able to make the case for Jeb quite nicely thanks to your posts. Since they have school age kids in the Albuquerque system (a predictable disaster), they were very interested about the Gov's reforms.

That's great to hear! Thanks, Tijeras_Slim. You made my day! :)

[catonsville]

When my daughter was five years old, I took her to the local library and got her first library card. I would take her there every other week or so and made sure she came home with stacks of the best kid books she could find.

As she grew up I bought encyclopedias, first the ones for kids, up to the Britannicas.

If you do not instill a love of reading very early, you are facing competition for a child's attention from TV, movies,and popular culture -which will dumb them down in a very short time. And in a society when knowledge is increasing exponentially, and the ability to read , comprehend and write well is very important, that child may have just become a loser.

My daughter is about to complete her MBA from Rollins College in Florida.