Archive for May 2nd, 2008

May 02 2008

Death of a salesman

Summit at Massanutten in the Shenandoah Valley is a decent resort, spacious units are built on the cliffs over looking the valley. It’s a year around place. We’ve been there before, kids actually learn to enjoy ski in Virginia, out of all the possible places, good few years back during one of the [...]

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May 02 2008

Schools and teachers

Published by The Kibbitzer under Saga, View from Bottom

The schools in our area are really nice in terms they don’t indicate winners nor labeling losers. I learned this at the nursery. During my first parent-teacher meeting, I naturally asked how my child was doing in the class. The female teacher looked tensed and informed me she didn’t know [ya right, [...]

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May 02 2008

Parenting

King’s been practicing piano a lot lately without being asked, to my surprise! It’s really the sound of music to my ears :). Yesterday after Lee left, I asked how did the lesson go. "It’s ok." Ou? "Every once in a while I’ll get a boring lesson." I can’t [...]

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May 02 2008

Kids, a few good rules to live by

Published by The Kibbitzer under View from Bottom

I’m not sure if Gates has set those rules..
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Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did
not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically
correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality
and how this concept set them [...]

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