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« Reply #60 on: April 09, 2007, 12:35:04 PM » |
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Oh and whatever happened to RECESS and GYM at elementary schools? They no longer exist at my niece's school - they've been replaced by computer class.
A lot of schools now restrict Lunch hours to 1/2 hour to avoid trouble on the playground. |
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« Reply #61 on: April 09, 2007, 12:42:41 PM » |
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Oh and whatever happened to RECESS and GYM at elementary schools? They no longer exist at my niece's school - they've been replaced by computer class.
A lot of schools now restrict Lunch hours to 1/2 hour to avoid trouble on the playground. They may avoid trouble on the playground, but what about in class? Who dreams up these changes to curricula? |
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« Reply #62 on: April 09, 2007, 02:36:35 PM » |
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Oh and whatever happened to RECESS and GYM at elementary schools? They no longer exist at my niece's school - they've been replaced by computer class.
A lot of schools now restrict Lunch hours to 1/2 hour to avoid trouble on the playground.
First time I have heard that. Around here, recess and PE have fallen through the cracks because of a lack of funding--they had to shorten the teachers' school day, I think. Expecting a kid to be able to concentrate in school without giving her adequate breaks for physical movement is one of the most insane developments of recent years. |
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« Reply #63 on: April 09, 2007, 02:40:46 PM » |
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Teacher's days have not been shortened-- indeed, most PSs go 30-60 minutes more than when most of us were kids. Recess, etc., along with specialized subjects such as art and music, have been increasingly eliminated as part and parcel of the overall 'No Child Left Behind' Act efforts to provide more time to teach children material required for standardized competence tests.
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« Reply #64 on: April 09, 2007, 03:34:41 PM » |
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A few weeks ago I was at school describing to some colleagues some amusing little thing one of my kids had done, and a woman who was sitting at an adjacent table in the faculty workroom took it upon herself to open her briefcase and bring me a book on "The Indigo Children." I think you may have run into this person (one of the many reviewers of Indigo Children on Amazon.com): "Definitely Recommended!!, March 2, 2006 Reviewer: Bradley O (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone with an Indigo child! I bought two of these, just to lend one out to parent's that I meet who say "my child is just too wise beyond their years". Everyone I have lent this book came back with "this explains a lot, and I can really identify with what it says"." If someone recommended it on Amazon, it's like gotta be good, right?! It was on the internet! I mean, there's even like an entry in Wikipedia, so it's like so true! Like, I'm a Indigo child. That explains everything. Like, why I think that it's so stupid to be challenged by anything. And why my parents are soooooooo lame. I gotta stop. I can't keep typing. Too many words. Gotta, go. Friends chatting TTFN XOXO |
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The Star child is the next evolutionary step after the Indigo child - they bring back order to the chaos that the Indigos create. They are all "old souls" and often don't fit in with their peer group because they are so precocious. yup - more total Bull S&!t. The sad thing is one of my friends is the one who explained this to me when she was telling me about the hard time her little girl was having transitioning into 1st grade. My son is a delightful 5 year old hell raiser. He is smart, kind, loving, creative, and occassionally insane! I take full responsiblity for his behavior. It is my job to teach him how to behave in the world, not to make excuses because he is some new form of human. He is pretty much a normal human being. Of course I think he is amazing and special, but no one else needs to. When he is older he will take full responsibility for his behavior. He has set boundaries and there are consequneces when he crosses those boundaries - I don't need some fuzzy new age psycho babble to excuse his behavior, I just acknowledge he is 5. I don't get what is so hard about this. But then, maybe we just are not far enough up the evolutionary ladder to understand the strains of having an indigo or star child. |
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« Reply #66 on: April 13, 2007, 10:56:47 AM » |
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The Star child is the next evolutionary step after the Indigo child - they bring back order to the chaos that the Indigos create. They are all "old souls" and often don't fit in with their peer group because they are so precocious. yup - more total Bull S&!t. The sad thing is one of my friends is the one who explained this to me when she was telling me about the hard time her little girl was having transitioning into 1st grade. My son is a delightful 5 year old hell raiser. He is smart, kind, loving, creative, and occassionally insane! I take full responsiblity for his behavior. It is my job to teach him how to behave in the world, not to make excuses because he is some new form of human. He is pretty much a normal human being. Of course I think he is amazing and special, but no one else needs to. When he is older he will take full responsibility for his behavior. He has set boundaries and there are consequneces when he crosses those boundaries - I don't need some fuzzy new age psycho babble to excuse his behavior, I just acknowledge he is 5. I don't get what is so hard about this. But then, maybe we just are not far enough up the evolutionary ladder to understand the strains of having an indigo or star child. Good Lord. That's all I can say. Good Lord Almighty. (Or, perhaps, the Star God should be invoked...) |
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« Reply #67 on: April 13, 2007, 03:35:56 PM » |
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My son is a delightful 5 year old hell raiser. He is smart, kind, loving, creative, and occassionally insane! I take full responsiblity for his behavior. Shouldn't ALL five year olds be occasionally insane? I mean, c'mon! |
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« Reply #68 on: April 13, 2007, 03:49:51 PM » |
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Insomniacs can step into the world of indigo children, hale-boppers, and alien abductees by listening to Art Bell's wee hours radio show.
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« Reply #69 on: April 13, 2007, 06:52:55 PM » |
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My son is a delightful 5 year old hell raiser. He is smart, kind, loving, creative, and occasionally insane! I take full responsibility for his behavior. Shouldn't ALL five year olds be occasionally insane? I mean, c'mon! Absolutely! He says the funniest things during those insane moments that are just priceless. The point is that he can be insane when it is OK to be so, not when we are at dinner in a restaurant or during his piano lesson. Boundaries - I think kids crave them. |
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« Reply #70 on: April 13, 2007, 07:45:55 PM » |
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Thirty years ago, I was a Flesh child. You know, that color that Crayola no longer makes?
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« Reply #71 on: April 13, 2007, 08:15:51 PM » |
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My son is a delightful 5 year old hell raiser. He is smart, kind, loving, creative, and occasionally insane! I take full responsibility for his behavior. Shouldn't ALL five year olds be occasionally insane? I mean, c'mon! Absolutely! He says the funniest things during those insane moments that are just priceless. The point is that he can be insane when it is OK to be so, not when we are at dinner in a restaurant or during his piano lesson. Boundaries - I think kids crave them. I'd agree. And wouldn't Dr. Spock, too?? Does anyone read John Rosemond's columns? He advocates "traditional" parenting, which really just means "common sense" parenting. http://www.rosemond.com When did parenting become nonsensical??? |
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« Reply #72 on: April 13, 2007, 08:40:53 PM » |
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I used to teach at an inner city charter school designed, essentially, to bring poor black kids up to speed academically. How did the administration attempt to do this? By nixing PE and recess, requiring that lunch be held silently in the cafeteria, and keeping kids sitting at desks doing academic work for about 8 hours a day.
Needless to say, it didn't work. Heck, we teachers couldn't sit through an hour long staff meeting without screwing around. And we expected kids to make it through 8 straight classes???? This is what happens when business people run schools and teachers just take attendance.
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« Reply #73 on: April 13, 2007, 09:13:13 PM » |
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Thirty years ago, I was a Flesh child. You know, that color that Crayola no longer makes?
They still make it, they just renamed it - Peach. |
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« Reply #74 on: April 15, 2007, 02:39:32 PM » |
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Thirty years ago, I was a Flesh child. You know, that color that Crayola no longer makes?
They still make it, they just renamed it - Peach. I think someone realized that no all people have flesh that color. In fact, do any people have flesh that color? My children are obnoxious at times. However, I do everything I can to squelch the indigo child that is hiding behind them as they sit at the dinner table and eat their food. They do not throw food, yell at the top of their lungs, or bang on the table. It is not that they do not want to, it is that they are afraid to do any of those things. They know I am watching. They will never reach indigo, or star status. If I rob the world of 2 more star children, I will feel a little good about that. |
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