Archive for the ‘Parenting’ Category

To Hell With The Dalai Lama! He Never Had Kids!

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Dalai Lama

It’s going on right now! I’ve had the idea for this post for some time. Generally, I’ve got about fifteen posts partially done, and about ten more ideas for posts floating around in my head.

Figuring out what to say is not hard for me. Finding the time and especially the peace to write it in is the hard part.

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The Government Does Not Own Our Children…Yet!

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

I actually stole that line. Steve Olson, a blogger, who lives in the upper mid-west, wrote that at the conclusion of an interesting and impassioned post he’s written about how we educate (or fail to educate) our children. Click over to his blog right now and read that post. When you’re done, read a previous post about his own problems in public school.

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Just a Note:

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

I read Ilker Yoldas’ The Thinking Blog. I enjoy his posts and learn from him. Today he posted about how to get your blog recognized. He’s actually writing about another blog. What’s so interesting to me is that I got a lot of interesting ideas about promotion from him, but I really disliked the blog he was referencing. Now, I disliked the blog because I can’t stand cursing online. That may be just my own quirk (or maybe my mother actually raised a gentleman!). My dislike of offensive language aside, read the post! It has a lot of good ideas!

How Do You View Potential? Fixed or Growing?

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

I ran across this at Guy Kawasaki’s blog. This is an article about a book published by psychology professor Carol Dweck. According to the book, Dweck looks into why people fail even though they may have the skills and talents required to succeed.

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How To Turn Your Daughter Into A Whore In Two Easy Steps

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Step 1. Enroll your daughter in public school.

Step 2. Kick back and watch.

I bet I got your attention, didn’t I? And I bet you’re wondering where I’m coming from on this. Let me fill you in.

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