tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818716837336250617.post3655986721984592899..comments2024-02-16T16:16:40.769-08:00Comments on capable of flying: Not so black and whiteFledglinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02773079154826856034noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818716837336250617.post-37502092460052928632014-09-18T03:30:17.834-07:002014-09-18T03:30:17.834-07:00Nancy, you are among the most creative people I kn...Nancy, you are among the most creative people I know. I love the etuis. Wish I could get so motivated to make similar cases for all my lacing tools. <br /><br />And you, my dear, have my vote for Queen. Thanks for your availability!Ixakayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11397255105085074059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818716837336250617.post-57528736828137798242014-06-10T06:48:38.130-07:002014-06-10T06:48:38.130-07:00Wonderful set and cover. When I saw Lord of the Ri...Wonderful set and cover. When I saw Lord of the Ring I was shocked. No one can replace reading the book by looking at that film (I wonder, is the book really that Kitschy, and I never saw it?). Ah, those young people always taking the fast path ;)...<br />Self-assured is good. Nothing worse than the arbitrariness of it all getting to you!mooi hoor...https://www.blogger.com/profile/03010467403493546019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818716837336250617.post-38963145178807356532014-06-05T06:53:09.905-07:002014-06-05T06:53:09.905-07:00Hello Jen! Thank you for sharing your thoughts! It...Hello Jen! Thank you for sharing your thoughts! It is a psychological tightrope being a parent sometimes, don't you think? Just when you think you're about to let them cross the street by themselves, it's hard to imagine them in that world on the other side all by themselves. What is "good enough"? And is "good enough" good enough? And who's good (or not good) enough? And isn't that exactly why we send kids to school: To teach them what they don't know? I often feel like school is a place that arbitrarily measures arbitrary things your kids should know arbitrarily. If, for example, your girl excels at one thing at a time: I say, Great! We know she has excellence within her capability. We're all expected to specialize at some point. There are very few physicist baker author attorney tailor dancer game show host politicians out there, am I right? So it should be clear to the schools, that this girl will excel when she finds her calling.<br /><br />You are an excellent Queen of Your World. My girl is a stubborn, I mean, "self assured" one. But I am putting my foot down. She'll read The Hobbit through before the summer is over!Fledglinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02773079154826856034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818716837336250617.post-3983580002776242052014-06-02T10:48:03.824-07:002014-06-02T10:48:03.824-07:00Your point about pushing kids and wanting them to ...Your point about pushing kids and wanting them to be the best 'self' they can be is something that I've been thinking about lately - my oldest can't seem to do well in more than one class, kind of like not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time. I keep kicking myself that I've somehow failed at parenting her, particularly as she's going to be in high school in the fall and things that don't seem important right now suddenly become all-important for college entrance, etc.<br /><br />I am not the Queen of the World, but I wouldn't let her (my oldest) see the Hobbit movies until she'd read the book first. She read it and said it was the best book ever and was then able to comment about Peter Jackson's deviations from the original text. She's impatiently waiting the last installment of the movie. Meanwhile I own all 3 of the Lord of the Rings movie but won't let her see them until she's read the book. I told her if she wanted she could read the first book and then see the first movie, and do it that way. But she's still stuck in Bree at the Prancing Pony. Maybe she'll finish it this summer. I've done the same thing with my younger kids and "The Neverending Story". My husband is reading them the book now and they get to see the movie when he's done.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11447949592701882774noreply@blogger.com