Wisdom: Our Legacy to our Children

Posted on January 4, 2008. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

I was hoping that when Alicia spelled out the rules to her recent game of blog topic tag - being that there were to be no general tagging of all readers and that you needed to tag people by name - that I would easily avoid this topic. I never get tagged by name. I [...]

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Sesame Street circa 1969

Posted on November 21, 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

I was probably not quite 6 years old when Sesame Street first aired on PBS. It was created for a specific audience, the inner-city four year old and if you look at the episodes from those first seasons you will notice a decidedly inner city setting, but one that was undoubtedly cleaner and more hopeful [...]

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I was an Angelic Teen

Posted on October 3, 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

There was an interesting opinion piece in The Globe and Mail on October 2nd about being honest with your children when discussing your own alcohol and drug use when you were young. I suppose this applies to sexual experiences too. Having spent as many years as I did working with preteens and teenagers, I am [...]

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Homeroom Mom

Posted on September 25, 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

I volunteered to help make apple pie with Katy’s kindergarten class today. There are nineteen kids in her room on days when the all day children are there. There were four adults. The teacher, her husband who took the day off to help out, another mother and myself. We weren’t greatly out-numbered and yet when [...]

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