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of childhood forever found throwing humor against horror and winning sartrean humor against the anguish of senseless existence and there we ever are in that lost and found collection realm of the trans eternal moment of recollection in life s department store we are there right now staring the void in the face beware be damned and back it stares at us and grins and grimaces with fun house mirror faces we dance and sing with nietzsche well why not life is peachy written 5 06 2003 tags existentialism nietzsche sartre posted in education parenting philosophy 2 comments oh to be a child again august 13 2009 http geriatricmama wordpress com 2009 08 13 im jealous i stumbled across this excellent page in my efforts to understand the proper use of tags in wordpress i posted a link to this page on my facebook and plurk where there are many parents and a few teachers here is the link which led me to your page http en wordpress com tag parenting my amateur advice to bloggers is to think up some meaningful tags and plug them into the above link to see if the tag has been used and how it has been used for example i wrote a blog in praise of the late mr rogers who hosted a children s television show for many years when i visit the tag http en wordpress com tag mrrogers i discover that most the the blogs there mention him only in passing and mention him with a tone of ridicule i did find that a tag of shortstory does exactly what i want for my several short stories http en wordpress com tag shortstory regarding the nature of childhood take a look at http www time com time magazine article 0 9171 993868 00 html author edward jones is winner of the pulitzer prize for his first novel the known world amistad 388 pages the first line of jones novel is you never get over having been a child tags blogging childhood parenting posted in parenting leave a comment advice to my stepson in college august 10 2009 the other night as your mother was going to sleep she said to me promise me only one thing that if i die you will help my son to finish college i answered her saying i will always help him in any way i can of course i am not wealthy so i am limited in the ways i can help you but i hope i have helped you these past 10 years by example it is very likely accurate to say that during the years you have known me since you were age 7 there is hardly a day that you have seen me without a book in my hands first thing in the morning or last thing at night and perhaps you have noticed that i never dress up and leave the front door without having at least one little book in my pocket though often i have two or three what you have seen in my daily life is a valuable lesson of example try to always learn something new and different each day and even each hour if you find the energy and discipline to do so try to do this throughout your life and not just during your years of formal education each of us is given only so many minutes in life though no one may know exactly how many but try to use each minute wisely be proactive and do not procrastinate finish work first and start early only then should you feel free to play and relax before you utter any sentence any statement any remark think first of the consequences for once something is said you may never take it back also have an eye and mind to the quality of what you say if you always strive to say a few new and fascinating things then you will not only uplift and possibly change the lives of those who hear you but you will definitely grow and profit yourself since you will always be pushing yourself in the direction of quality of thought quality of speech i shall always remember the day when you were about 8 or 9 years old i watched you toss a small ball against the wall and catch it for over an hour when you had finished your pastime and turned to me i scolded you gently by saying you have just spent an entire hour tossing that ball and you have nothing to show for it nor are you any happier now because of your activity but are still just as bored but if you had spent that hour reading or viewing something educational or engaged in a meaningful discussion why then you might have something of great value and you would definitely no longer be bored since you would have something of interest to occupy your mind words are very powerful god chose to incarnate as word or logos words can wound words can heal words can create words can destroy make words your tools make language your friend an education is nothing more than learning to use words if you can recall the proper words on a black sheet of paper you can pass a law bar exam or earn a cpa if you say the proper words in the proper way you can win elections make words your friends and companions and language your tool and weapon here is the reply thank you so very very much for the kind words of advice they seem to come at the most fitting moment too for i am reading your words right now as i sit alone in my dorm trying to figure out ways to keep myself motivated and inspired to continue to work hard well your advice of trying to keep learning as a main focus in life pretty much made that task a lot easier really thank you very very much for your e mail i know i never say it to you or mom enough but i miss you and i really do love you i don t know if i could ever really express to you in person how happy and how grateful i am to have you two as some of the greatest influences in my life when i ve tried in the past it only resulted in my becoming overwhelmed with emotion and then petering out i really don t know of any other set of parents that could have done a better job than you did on me thank you both of you so so much tags parenting posted in parenting leave a comment tribute to mr rogers august 9 2009 here is a letter i wrote to mr rogers on 12 15 2000 he wrote a reply he read all of his mail and answered it personally dear mr rogers i am 50 years old male i did not begin watching your show until i was in high school in the mid 1960 s for the past several years i have wanted to write you a letter of praise and thanks today i saw your program on pbs television and i decided to search the internet and find your email address when i was in high school i would come home in the afternoon feeling nervous and pressured by the academic demands placed upon me i would turn on your show and instantly feel a calm and a peace a tranquility which your show and your personality inspires although i have not had time to view your show regularly through the years any time i did tune in i always perceived this same atmosphere of peace and tranquility and also i might add a sense of moral and ethical strength of purity and integrity and most importantly equanimity an even keeled spirit in the face of all things two years ago i had to settle my late mother s estate near new haven connecticut where i grew up and first saw your show the day before i sold the house that i grew up in i saw my next door neighbor now quite elderly making his way to his mailbox with his walker i went to say goodbye to him explaining that the house was being sold he had moved into that neighborhood in 1955 when my parents bought that house across the street from him i grew up and went to school with his son as i said goodbye to him that day the last thing he did was look at me with a smile and a twinkle in his eye and he sang the beginning of your theme song won t you be my neighbor obviously many adults watch your show as well as children i think this is a great tribute to you and your program the episode that i happened to see today featured the young boy who was handicapped and in a wheelchair as i watched him i realized how foolish i am sometimes in my own life feeling sorry for myself over the little problems and frustrations that i experience we all realize that there are those in this world who face far greater problems and face them from infancy onward and yet they manage to be courageous and optimistic about the blessings that they do have we all know this intellectually but few of us know this emotionally i am quite certain that these are some of the very messages which you seek to convey to your audience in my internet search today i came across some biographical material about your own life and education i had not realized that you pursued a vocation in the ministry but i am certainly not surprised to learn of your religious background since the feelings i have always had from your show are ones of a deeply spiritual nature yet totally free of any sectarian or doctrinal overtones i now realize that this too is a great tribute to your success to convey a spiritual message without appearing religious perhaps that is the highest form of religion that there is perhaps the very meekness gentleness and compassion which you convey every day in your program is a living icon of that personality which you yearn to proclaim and about which you are perennially tactfully silent several years ago i noticed a news item that you were involved in some litigation to protect your name from unauthorized misuse in the media my first thought was simple yes he should mr roger s stands for something important and no one should wrongfully misuse that name or image for purposes contrary to mr roger s goals and standards i do hope that this little email of mine can reach you personally mr rogers i realize from reading your biographical info that you have no shortage of awards and commendations for your life s work you do not know me personally and yet you have been a part of my life since i was very young yet even the holiest of temples is built up by individual stones i am sure you have touched the lives and hearts of several generations now young and old and the seeds which you have patiently sown these many years will surely take deep roots in the fabric of our society for generations to come and your values and ideas so subtle and tactful as to be almost subliminal will shape our world for decades perhaps centuries to come i did not want to reach the end my life without having expressing my thanks to you of course many individuals touch our lives especially in this soon to end 20th century of unprecedented media and communications explosion such personalities as yours and others become perhaps larger than life larger than your own individuality i am sure that the gravity of this responsibility the weight of this public image has been trying for you at times and yet our world needs larger than life heroes and icons even though we are vessels of clay i think st paul wrote somewhere god places his treasures of gold in vessels of clay i just want you to know that there are people out here who know your job has not been an easy one living in the public eye and you have surely made your own personal sacrifices and suffered in order to achieve your goals but from where i stand it looks like you have done your work masterfully i am quite certain in my heart that one day you will hear those cherished words well done good and faithful servant if anyone deserves to hear them it is certainly you you have been a shining beacon in what is otherwise an often dark and sinister television medium god bless you mr rogers it has been an honor to know you over these many years tags parenting posted in parenting leave a comment children s questions about sex august 9 2009 child s question where was i when you and mom got married father s answer a part of you was in mommy and a part was in daddy child s next question where was my head my reaction it may be more prudent to provide children with accurate information when they request it to the level which they can understand what you said is clever but obviously part of your cleverness is your success in being accurate in a sense but evasive and deceptive in a larger sense of omission with all the media available to children they will put two and two together and figure out a lot so they may look back on such evasive answers and feel that you were less than honest or perhaps they will sense some level of shame about simple facts of life my step son is now 25 i came along when he was 7 i always treated him like an adult with each question that he asked my approach seems to have worked out ok so far i think he always felt that he could ask me about anything and i would give him an honest sincere answer and not talk down to him as a second class intellect my parents in the 1950s gave me evasive answers in retrospect i felt betrayed i grew up in the 1950 s everyone answered children in that fashion and did so because it was a time and culture in which one could not say the word pregnant on the jack paar tonight show you must say expecting words like pregnant were considered filthy we lived in a world of euphemisms when i was age 5 my mother scolded me for saying that someone was stupid she explained that stupid is a naughty word and that i should instead say that someone is silly when i was age 10 i received a megaphone for christmas how dumb is that to give a kid a megaphone so of course i decided to begin reading genesis aloud into the megaphone when i got to the part that says adam knew eve and she conceived my mother came storming out of the kitchen to stop me then she paused in mid air like one of those bugs bunny cartoon double takes typical of daffy duck or elmer fudd or porky pig or wiley coyote she was upset that i was saying something improper parent she is only age 3 response i was curious about the age and assumed she must be very young i am not criticizing you like i said i lived in a generation of parents who spoke about storks cabbage leaves tooth fairies etc but it is an interesting topic to blog about when my stepson was age 4 his mom had to take him to day care she felt that she had to tell him a lot of things about a problem which is an obvious concern in these times e g if anyone ever touches you down here even if it is a relative you must tell me and even if they tell you something bad will happen you still must tell me etc so at age 4 he knew a lot about sexuality because of all the concerns about the problem of abuse i have vivid memories from age 3 and 4 she now has notions that her head was one place while her body was another i don t know if that is preferable to simply hearing something different and more accurate i know i harbored misinformation from the age of 4 that did me more harm than good i know there are whole series of books and videos perhaps on the teletubbie level designed to answer toddlers curiosity about gender and toilet and birth and other mysteries i have no idea if they are beneficial or harmful the only real wisdom i ever remember about children s questions is this if they ask something they are ready to learn something give them little increments of accurate information until they seem satisfied when they stop asking then they know enough for now and dont need further info or greater detail obviously you can t 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