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“They [kids] get overwhelmed and over-stimulated and cannot concentrate on any one thing long enough to learn from it so they just shut down. Too many toys means they are not learning to play imaginatively either.”
A study by the University of Stirling recently concluded that expensive, hi-tech toys are a waste of money - children learn just as much from playing with an old mobile phone.
So should parents chuck the lot? Perhaps. In Germany, two public health workers, Rainer Strick and Elke Schubert, persuaded a Munich nursery to pack away all playthings for three months out of every year, leaving the children with nothing but tables, chairs, blankets and their initiative. Then they watched what happened.
Initially, the children were bored but by day two they had turned tables and blankets into dens and were absorbed in make-believe games. They became more imaginative and contented, and in the process learned to concentrate, communicate better and integrate more in groups.
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The MapEnvelop project prints your current location inside of your letter’s envelope.
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Today’s lesson.
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notes Things Every Woman Should Know How To Do1. Be single without having to tout yourself constantly as “single and loving it!”. You should be happy when you are single, but it shouldn’t be necessary that you have to tell people that you are happy. Does anyone question whether a single man is “lovin’ it”?
2. Know how to walk into a party, bathroom or a bar alone.
3. Ditch Marilyn Monroe as a role model. While Marilyn Monroe was a beautiful woman and a great role model in terms of body type/size, she should not be your role model. She was a troubled woman with an addiction to pills. Her claim to fame was her sex appeal. I nominate Benazir Bhutto for new tragic (not quite politically correct) role model in the ’10s. Leave this quote off your facebook profile: “If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.” Pick up this quote: “You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.”
4. Quit referring to extraordinary things you do as “girl power”. You’ve accomplished great things because you are great.
5. Stop judging others for their decisions with child raising. Natural childbirth, c-section, breast feeding, work at home mom, working mom, single mom, gluten-free diet, fast food diet. Whatever. It’s hard for everyone.
6. Know how to not call yourself “fat”. I can’t wait for the day when a group of women can talk about summer or going on vacation without someone squealing, “I need to lose weight!”. This is one of those, “because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind” kind of situations.
7. Take a compliment. If someone says you’re pretty, smart or funny, they probably mean it. Say “thank you” instead of making a self-deprecating remark or denying it, (most) people don’t get complimented enough.
8. Stop wondering why you broke up with him/her without saying the words “just not that into”. Life is not an episode of Sex and the City.
9. For the younger girls (and the older ones who haven’t learned yet), ditch friends who make you feel bad. Life’s too short.
10. Refer to yourself as a woman. You’ll be respected a lot more if you do. Ditch calling yourself a “girl”. You pay your bills? You’re a woman.
11. Stop with the purses. No one looks as critically at you as you look at yourself. You don’t need a Louis Vuitton when it’s going to empty out your savings.
12. Realize that calling yourself and your friends “bitches” does not give out the right idea. If I read one more facebook status message along the lines of “going out with my BItChes”, I might kill a puppy.
13. In that same vein, do not write with the one lowercase, one capital pattern. WrItInG LiKe ThIs makes you appear unintelligent and immature. Not to mention the fact that it takes up a lot of time.
- link My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31)
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Ladies and gentlemen - we now have cover art!
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I don’t really care what year you say it is.
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notes[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]@phoenixlily on Bethan Elfyn’s BBC Radio 1 radio show last Wednesday.
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A small collection of things that were waiting for me in Southampton.
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Pressure Drop Trailer (HD) (by @marthasadie)
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notes"The thing that bothers me most about the iPad is this: if I had an iPad rather than a real computer as a kid, I’d never be a programmer today. I’d never have had the ability to run whatever stupid, potentially harmful, hugely educational programs I could download or write. I wouldn’t have been able to fire up ResEdit and edit out the Mac startup sound so I could tinker on the computer at all hours without waking my parents. The iPad may be a boon to traditional eduction, insofar as it allows for multimedia textbooks and such, but in its current form, it’s a detriment to the sort of hacker culture that has propelled the digital economy.
Perhaps the iPad signals an end to the “hacker era” of digital history. Now that consumers and traditional media understand the digital world, maybe there’s proportionally less need for freewheeling technological experimentation and platforms that allow for the same. Maybe the hypothetical mom doesn’t need a real computer. As long as real computers stick around for people who do need them, maybe there’s no harm in that.
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