Every day, my 8th graders tackle a paragraph riddled with errors and make corrections. I get these at Education World. We then go over the errors as a class. Pretty straight forward, right? Well, most of the time. This was today’s unedited text: Dedicated on October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was a gift …
Category Archive: Parenting
Oct
07
A new beginning
Let me begin again. After months of reflection, introspection, circumspection, and many other kinds of spections, I think it’s about time we fire this baby back up again. There was a period where this blog was a complete beast. A lathering, ferocious spectacle. A monster. A powerful force. Then, there was then a leveling out. …
Feb
09
On Children, a poem by Kahlil Gibran
On Children “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. …
Jan
31
What to do when a monster comes out of the movie:
Yeah but . . . since when is “ask” not a nice word?
Jan
26
Driving test prep: Wisconsin style
A father and son were out driving in preparation for the son’s driver’s examination the next morning. Father: How do you feel about the test tomorrow? Son: Pretty good. Father: Great. Let me ask you a few questions then. Son: Ok. Father: What do you do if you go into a skid. Son: Turn into …
Jan
23
Tell the Truth, Expect Nothing
I’m reading Randy Pausch’s, The Last Lecture and enjoying it. If you don’t know the story, Pausch–a computer science professor, husband, and father of three very young kids–had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was dying. His “Last Lecture” wasn’t about dying, however, but about how to live. Then he wrote a book. It’s a …
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