Tag Archives: Parenting
Madame President, Our Teacher
The primary role of parents applies also to teachers and world leaders:
Dear Madame President [though of course, you may turn out to be a man]:
Teaching and teacher education have traditionally been viewed as women’s work and practiced by women. Like nursing, teaching has never been taken seriously among the more august professions….
I suspect [...]
Posted in Mind & Society, Reading Around Also tagged Careers, Democracy, Education, Journal of Teacher Education, Lee Schulman, Presidents, Teaching Leave a comment
We’re All Home Schoolers
Today's homes are if anything even more important in the educational ecosystem of most Americans.
Posted in Margin Notes, Reading Around Also tagged Education, Homeschooling, Lifelong Learning, Messiah College, Milton Gaither 2 Comments
A Modest Proposal
It held the title of "most e-mailed story" at the New York Times for most of the day on Tuesday, but is that really how you would want to recommend these books to your spouse?
Posted in Margin Notes, Mind & Society, Reading Around Also tagged Charla Muller, Douglas Brown, Marriage, New York Times, Sex Leave a comment
Katie Kalmerton & Clyde Squire–Requiescat in Pace
The church is Catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all. When she baptizes a child, that action concerns me; for that child is thereby connected to that body which is my head too, and ingrafted into that body whereof I am a member.
And when she buries a man, [...]
Posted in Local Life Also tagged Clyde Squire, Death, Family, Home School, John Donne, Katie Kalmerton Leave a comment
Protected by a Child
How many times do my children protect me from harm? How does their innocence move me to seek innocence? Their natural desire to explore, learn, grow and create often protects me from losing context.
Posted in Having Faith, Reading Circles, Science & Technology Also tagged Alaska, Environment, Food, Illinois, Pregnancy, Reading Circles, Sandra Steingraber, Snow 2 Comments
How to Use Your B.R.A.I.N.
"I was speaking with another expectant father this morning, and our conversation turned to decision-making during childbirth and the almost inevitable need to tell some health-care professional to stick it in their ear..."
Not Quite Lifelong Learning