A cute note by a young child on the subject of love:
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Amber Dusick uses cartoon illustrations to provide us with a strategy that uses reverse psychology to get kids to eat healthy foods.
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Our children are abandoning spelling skills in favor of a very dubious system known as auto correct:
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Courtesy of funny.com:
1. They’re always ringing the bell before I get there.
2. I saw a sign that read “School Ahead. Go Slow.”, so I did.
3. My watch was set to Tokyo time.4. I had to feed my pet piranha.
5. My alarm clock kept going off while I was asleep.
6. Sorry–usually my punctuation skills are excellent.
7. I was dreaming about a basketball ball game, and it went into overtime.
8. I’m on time–everyone else is early.
9. I told you if I wasn’t here, you should go ahead and start without me.
10. What? I thought this place was open until three thirty!
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There is nothing better than a teacher flash mob to ease the apprehensions and anxieties of a first day at school. I love it when teachers stop playing the authority card and instead invest in connecting with their students through fun and positivity:
Teachers at Hancock High School in Mississippi went into the first day of the 2012-13 school year with what can only be described as an unconventional lesson plan.
Instead of the usual icebreaker sessions and syllabus distribution, the faculty gathered students in the gymnasium, where they performed a flash mob to Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.”
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Courtesy of blogger Jill Smokler comes 20 Creative Ways To Embarrass Your Kids:
20. Blast Broadway show tunes and belt out every last word, with the windows wide open.
19. Send elaborate love letters in lunch boxes.
18. Chaperone a field trip wearing a “Team Lily” t-shirt.
17. Cheer loudly and animatedly at sporting events à la Aly Raisman’s parents.
16. Carry adorable, naked baby pictures everywhere and whip them out to complete strangers.
15. Talk in goofy, made-up foreign accents to their friends.
14. Answer the door wearing a bright green face mask and plastic shower cap.
13. Dance like a crazy person when ’80s music comes on in the grocery store.
12. Dance at all, ever.
11. Use silly pet names in public. Loudly.
10. Force them to wear matching outfits for holiday photos.
9. Label their clothing with smiley face hearts around their names.
8. Shower them in constant kisses, wherever we may be.
7. Pick their noses.
6. Welcome the bus with a fully choreographed cheer.
5. Yell “I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!” at the top of my lungs as the bus drives off.
4. Use saliva to wipe off their dirty faces.
3. Wear a bathrobe and slippers to school pick up.
2. Maintain my blog.
1. Breathe. (I’m thinking that’s probably enough.)
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Cleaning up after a Lego session can be an intricate task. Often there will be a piece or two hiding somewhere you least expect. But one place I haven’t looked for Lego is in a child’s nose:
Isaak Lasson can finally breathe easy after three years of sinus problems.
The cause? A single wheel-shaped Lego piece that he got stuck up his nose back when he was 3.
At least that’s what his dad, Craig Lasson, said he thinks. His son started having a hard time breathing back then.
“I felt so bad,” the father told KSL-TV. Isaak “was sleeping with his mouth open, trying to breathe.”
Numerous doctors looked at isaak’s nose and prescribed antibiotics.
But last week, a new doctor noticed that Isaak seemed to have something foreign stuck up his schnozz and asked what it might be.
“I put some spaghetti up there, but that was a long time ago,” Isaak told the doctor, according to KTLA-TV.
But it wasn’t pasta that was up Isaak’s nose, just a ball of fungus encasing a Lego wheel.
“We think he bent it in half — it’s pretty flexible — and that it opened up once it got into his sinuses,” Isaak’s father told reporters.
Although Craig Lasson momentarily worried he was a bad parent for needing three years to figure out the Lego problem plaguing his son’s sinuses, he said he is happy that Isaak is eating and sleeping better than he has in years.
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I found this particular sign very amusing:
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One of the great education clips of the year! It showcases the best in what this wonderful profession can offer:
Teachers at Bell Baxter High School in Cupar, Scotland shocked pupils by breaking into an impromptu dance routine in the school canteen.
Led by the rector Phil Black, the event was watched by 600 people.
The routine, which featured The Village People’s YMCA and Michael Jackson’s Thriller had to be rehearsed in secret but according to organiser and student Chloe Simpson, it was time well spent.
“It was crazy,” Simpson said. “The whole school knew something was going to happen but didn’t know what.
“When Mr Black just started dancing, it was amazing … just absolutely incredible.”
Other students said they never expected it get such a reaction overseas – thousands around the world have watched it via the internet – and the BBC coming to the school to interview them.
If only the staff in my school could have done something like that when I was a student. It certainly beats detention!
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