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Democracy as Carpentry
1) Only use tools for their intended purpose. To do otherwise is bad for the tool and potentially dangerous.
2) Never take your eyes off your work. E.g. If you have to look away while you are sawing, stop sawing.
3) Put away your tools when you are done, even if you plan to use them again first thing in the morning!, and finally
4) If you were playing with your hammer and left it in the sandbox in the rain and now can't find it, don't expect to borrow... A Village Under Siege… or What I Did During My Spring Break
Spring Break.
Ok, it is only Spring Break for me, not for my children. I thought this would mean I would sleep in past seven and then drop them off at school. Hypothetically, I could have six or so hours to do laundry, clean house, work on the taxes, eat popcorn and watch movies.
Things might have gotten done, had I been able to drop the kids off at school. But once we got to school, I couldn't leave.
The basement of our school had been magically transformed to a kingdom during Europe's Dark Ages. The magic was in fact done by wonderful parents, staff members, and older students... angels, not faeries...
The stage at one end of the room was a king's chambers, there was a mountain...
Posted on Mar 15, 2010 - 08:32 AM by Khalif Williams in Uncharted Parenting
By the time my son, Ezra, was 5, he had his own set of tools (real ones) and a tool box in which to keep them. I immediately began to introduce him to a few simple principles that have now become our family carpentry creed:1) Only use tools for their intended purpose. To do otherwise is bad for the tool and potentially dangerous.
2) Never take your eyes off your work. E.g. If you have to look away while you are sawing, stop sawing.
3) Put away your tools when you are done, even if you plan to use them again first thing in the morning!, and finally
4) If you were playing with your hammer and left it in the sandbox in the rain and now can't find it, don't expect to borrow... A Village Under Siege… or What I Did During My Spring Break
Posted on Mar 25, 2010 - 04:30 PM by Alison Bagg Brink in Uncharted Parenting
Spring Break.Ok, it is only Spring Break for me, not for my children. I thought this would mean I would sleep in past seven and then drop them off at school. Hypothetically, I could have six or so hours to do laundry, clean house, work on the taxes, eat popcorn and watch movies.
Things might have gotten done, had I been able to drop the kids off at school. But once we got to school, I couldn't leave.
The basement of our school had been magically transformed to a kingdom during Europe's Dark Ages. The magic was in fact done by wonderful parents, staff members, and older students... angels, not faeries...
The stage at one end of the room was a king's chambers, there was a mountain...