I firmly believe that children pay a lot more attention to us and our actions/words than we think they do. Sure, they act like they’re big shots and know-it-alls but how many times have we seen or heard them do something and joke, “Wonder where he got THAT from?”
Two weeks ago I went to [...]

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I am honestly and truly sick of hearing about the scandals that politicians seem to embroil themselves in. Do they honestly think they are so “high and mighty” that they are above the law? Do they not realize that by being in the public eye they are examples and possibly role models to our youth?
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Back on February 2, 2008 the NY Post ran a story about how PS 79 in The Bronx was closing its doors because of its “history” of poor performance.
This is troubling to me, as a parent, for two reasons. First, because the school had been commended in late 2007 by the state Education Commissioner for [...]

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