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Is Cheerleading a Sport? Don't Answer Too Quickly
In keeping with the sports-is-to-politics foul play analogy of my last post: Is cheerleading a sport and why should it matter? And can we adults think that through logically and meaningfully, answer w… more →
Cocking A Snook!
Is Cheerleading a Sport? Don't Answer Too Quickly
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JJ wrote 3 days ago: In keeping with the sports-is-to-politics foul play analogy of my last post: Is cheerleading a sport … more →
Shocking News: Our Dear Friend Betty Malone
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JJ wrote 1 week ago: MEG! What happened?? Nance and I have just learned of Betty’s passing — stunned and saddened. Dear i … more →
Campaign in Poetry, Govern in Prose
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JJ wrote 3 weeks ago: Matt Frei for BBC News on this first anniversary of the historic election: The old saying that you c … more →
See Google This Morning and Smile!
JJ wrote 3 weeks ago: Then call any handy family members over to share the smile. I just did. UPDATE: See CSM’s favo … more →
Telling Children Who They Are and What's Within Them
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JJ wrote 1 month ago: “You are not half. You are a whole soul living in a divided world. “ There Is No Such Th … more →
Kids Need Real Mom to Show Up, Not TV Reality Show
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JJ wrote 1 month ago: UPDATE 1:55 pm EDT – just heard the entire sheriff’s news conference on CNN live, extrao … more →
What School Movies Have Affected Your Life?
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JJ wrote 1 month ago: Which ones are personally most memorable, for good or ill or just as powerful story-telling? After p … more →
Brand-New Homeschooling Video That Will Inspire
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JJ wrote 1 month ago: Cock of the snook to Pam Sorooshian for sharing this — and look for her in it! Then share ever … more →
Learning to Play, Learning From Play
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JJ wrote 2 months ago: The whole New York Times Sunday magazine today is about various individual “identity” is … more →
Science Fiction -- and Anti-science Fiction?
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JJ wrote 2 months ago: Check out the Google graphic today, did you know this was H.G. Wells’ birthday? And former Mis … more →
"Undermatching" in College Admissions
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JJ wrote 2 months ago: Have you heard of this problem? See Crooked Timber, a smart blog Thinking Parents will want to know … more →
Patching the Evangelical Soul or Just Bearding It?
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JJ wrote 2 months ago: UPDATE: Parents’ Advisory before you open the comments! — if you are naive or painfully … more →
Teen Brain Research May Baffle Our Old Brains
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JJ wrote 2 months ago: See Time Magazine for The Teen Brain: The More Mature, the More Reckless: For now, these theories ar … more →
Messages at School From T-Shirts to Serious HATS
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JJ wrote 3 months ago: Do you have a serious hat-wearer in your circle of menfolk? Quite unexpectedly (to me) Young Son is … more →
Open Back-to-School Thread: Let's Have Show and Tell
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JJ wrote 3 months ago: Okay, I know a bunch of Thinking Parents who sent kids including unschooled daughters (looking at Na … more →
Presidential Medals of Freedom, Pitchers' Duel for the Hall of Fame
JJ wrote 3 months ago: First, today’s Presidential Medal of Freedom honorees are SO interesting and eclectic, not cho … more →
Mad for the Women Behind the Men of Mad Men!
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JJ wrote 3 months ago: Favorite Daughter and I love everything about this show. At the end of WSJ’s feature on the wo … more →
Seeds of Unschooling Europe Planted In Culture Curiosity
JJ wrote 3 months ago: Favorite Daughter and her fond companion Kiki are home again. I have had my hugs and gotten some pre … more →
Thinking Parent Betty Malone Takes on Health Reform
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JJ wrote 3 months ago: Our own Miss Betty asks some very thinking parent questions and offers some sensible answers, light … more →
