A documentary I’m going to suggest my library purchase, Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood, has a trailer available: What do you let your child/ren see and buy?

In my classroom we have a movie day once a week. This “serves” as a “positive reinforcement of behavior”. I didn’t institute it, let me say that right now. It has varying degrees of “positiveness”, ranging from the lowest, being able to watch the movie at all, (well, I guess the real lowest is not [...]

Happy holidays & good cheer to you and yours!

To many knitters Elizabeth Zimmermann is our greatest Knitting Godmother—akin to, I submit, a knitting goddess, who gave to us discernible knitting lessons, decipherable patterns, and the license to knit as we please. My EZ collection was made complete this morning…

I don’t remember the last time I was this disappointed by a movie. I don’t think I can even finish the series now. Throwing a psychic into the mix does not make the movie X-File-y. Why was it so disjointed? Why were they living together? All was forgiven?? And why was it so religious?? What [...]