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• What Would You Tell Your Kid to do to a Monster?

  This funny little girl is cute indeed, telling her mommy what she'd do to a monster who came out fo the television and into her home. (Warning: you should watch this before letting your kids see it.) Read More... Posted Apr 09 2009, 12:35 PM by Shannon LC Cate with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: violence, cute kids, monsters, Shannon LC Cate, teaching values, funny video

• Parenting in Gendered World

  There's a great thread over at Womanist Musings about the ongoing challenge of teaching our kids to be openminded about gender, especially when they are in school and experiencing both a bombardment of "this is what girls do; this is what boys do" and also watching peers tease/label/ostracize non-gender-conforming kids. Read More... Posted Mar 14 2009, 04:00 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with no comments Filed under: gender, princesses, transgender, stereotypes, values, dress up, boys and girls, Axel-Lute, teaching values, girl/boy

• Smackdown: I Won't Read That Thing Again

  "Sheep live on farms. Sheep like to eat grass. Sheep apparently have shiny, reflective, slightly pink fleece in order to captivate small children when the text of a book is too damn inane to do so." Do you have any books whose actual rendition when read out loud starts to sound kind of like that? I sure do. Or did. Read More... Posted Jan 06 2009, 04:31 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: books, reading, sarcasm, smackdown, children’s books, picture books, kiddie lit, reading to kids, kids’ books, Axel-Lute, Dr. Suess, things we hate, teaching values, A. A. Milne, passing on good taste, reading outloud, board books