Category: Culture
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Highly inappropriate, then and now
“That song is definitely not appropriate for children,” my ten-year-old daughter said to me the other day, hearing a song being played in a store. * My husband and I have been talking about the books we read as kids. Brave New World. 1984. Of Mice and Men. Great books, all about sex, much of…
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Facebook thinks I speak Spanish, and other musings about modern life
Hola… For months now I have been getting e-mails from Facebook, recommending I add as friends people I have never met. People whose first language is Spanish. People who don’t even live in the same country as me. OK, I speak passable caveman Spanish. I can read and understand, but when I go to speak,…
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Book list for pre-teen gifted readers
Pre-teen gifted readers often run into a problem around the age of ten: as younger children they read everything in children’s literature that they could get their hands on. By the time they reach ten years old, they’re starting to run into roadblocks when looking for appropriate books. Some ten-year-olds are ready to go on…
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Reading list for your gifted young reader
There is a lot of understanding these days about finding appropriate books for emerging readers. An entire new genre has even sprung up for struggling older readers who want something more mature than Amelia Bedelia. But there’s a problem on the other side of the spectrum for kids who read early. It’s not uncommon for…
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Hear me “on the radio”
My daughter was very impressed to hear that I was going to “be on the radio” today. She asked, “Which station?” In this modern world, she is straddling two eras of technology, perhaps three. Sometimes we listen to local radio stations over the real radio airwaves. Sometimes we listen to local radio stations which we…