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Parenting 101
Parenting teaches, like nothing else did that you pay for the bullshit you pull as a kid the invoices rendered by children who ask for clemency, extended curfews, and cash Share This:
And the children who think that summer ends
…and the children who think that summer ends and somehow, school and learning resume again, who do not yet realize the lessons. …and the parents who think their fall begun and somehow, school and learning do not apply to those … Continue reading
Homeschooling, Part 2
Before you take your child’s education into your own hands think about what you are qualified to teach, and what formal education rarely provides textbooks on: tolerance of the intolerant equality before the law appreciation for the little things rendering … Continue reading
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Tagged children, daily poems, education, homeschooling, limitations, parenting, responsibility
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Homeschooling, Part 1
Every young child is home schooled. You are teaching your children something: watching TV reality, escaping in drink, cheating on your taxes, refusing to think for yourself, letting the little things get you down, not leaving a tip for a … Continue reading
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Tagged blame, children, daily poems, education, homeschooling, parenting, responsibility
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Turning
I was thinking this evening about Starlight Dances and Mars Tokyo – the latter’s empty nest and the former’s soon to be emptying one. I wrote this poem for them, and all the other parents on my friends list. She … Continue reading
Suggestion for Philip Morris
I have been a smoker for a long time. You know, I’ve been watching these Philip Morris legislation required commercials advocating parental communication as the method for preventing children from smoking…and I’ve been thinking…while it is necessary for parents to … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, children, cigarettes, education, parenting, Philip Morris, PSA, public service, smoking
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Raising a Teenage Daughter
Get used to it – you will never be right. She will find, no matter how you try, some notion of yours to quickly defy and will long to be out of your keen sight. You must learn the fine … Continue reading
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Tagged children, daily poems, parenting, poetry by request, sonnet, teenagers
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