Here's an example from our childhood that shows how awesome it could be to know that Dad had our backs. In actuality, it's the brother's story, but it's too good not to tell
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Yes; that reminds me of an incident in my nephew's childhood, when my sister had to lead a containment battle against some New-Agey program being pushed at his school, involving (more or less) teaching math by playing a lot of Mozart at the kids and hoping that the mathematical structure of the music somehow soaked in. The entire fiasco was based on a single study with a sample size of eight children.
I'm hoping that the brainless, examples of Bristol Palin and Britney Spears's sister spur a grassroots rebellion against abstinence-only sex ed in America.
Someone-whether on LJ or Facebook, I forget-made an excellent point about building up such an all-or-nothing dichotomy regarding teen sex. In fact, there are many ways of achieving sexual release with a partner that don't carry a significant risk of pregnancy, and many that don't carry risk of pregnancy or STDs. However, I don't see these options being explored even in comprehensive sex-ed programs in the US any time in the foreseeable future.
The Dad does in fact kick major hinder. I didn't even remember that first incident! And the second I never knew about until after I was safely in college.
I went to lunch with Dad the day before Father's Day, which in our family's informal scheme of holiday celebrations, was close enough to the actual, I believe. I gave him a couple CDs by the band that sings Keng of the Rood, since he has some Scottish friends these days and is taking an interest in things Scot. Plus a recording of the Star Wars Imperial March being played on tuba, ocarina, and ukulele (the background music for that Hula-Vader vid that was making the rounds awhile back).
I didn't hear about the kindergarten incident until a year or two ago. Makes me wonder what your teacher's reasoning was, apart from the common misapprehension that left-handedness was somehow aberrant.
That orchestration for the Imperial March is the best ever. It's very difficult to sound ominous on an ocarina-or on a ukulele, for that matter.
Yup, it's the tuba that really adds the ponderous sinisterity to it all. Heh.
I found a vid of the guys performing that, and what I thought was an ocarina seems to be an instrument I've never seen before, though the video quality is budjo enough that it's hard to tell exactly what's going on. The guy seems to be fingering the notes on a tiny piano keyboard and blowing into the instrument through a tube. Warning: I think the video may be wonky and caused my computer to jam up, but I'm not certain it's the culprit.
My kindergarten teacher was, as I recall, very old-school and probably did think left-handedness was all Satany. She led the class in a daily prayer, which was probably pretty freshly illegal at the time.
Ah, yes, the vid is quite illuminating. According to this site, the combination keyboard/recorder is called a "melodica," and here sounds more like a sopranino recorder than an ocarina. It must work kind of like an accordion, as it can play chords.
(Alas, on my laptop the tuba is completely inaudible.)
It is probably no coincidence that sinister is derived from the Latin for left.
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Oh. Goodness.
They really need to tighten up the requirements for Early Childhood Ed majors.
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I went to lunch with Dad the day before Father's Day, which in our family's informal scheme of holiday celebrations, was close enough to the actual, I believe. I gave him a couple CDs by the band that sings Keng of the Rood, since he has some Scottish friends these days and is taking an interest in things Scot. Plus a recording of the Star Wars Imperial March being played on tuba, ocarina, and ukulele (the background music for that Hula-Vader vid that was making the rounds awhile back).
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That orchestration for the Imperial March is the best ever. It's very difficult to sound ominous on an ocarina-or on a ukulele, for that matter.
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I found a vid of the guys performing that, and what I thought was an ocarina seems to be an instrument I've never seen before, though the video quality is budjo enough that it's hard to tell exactly what's going on. The guy seems to be fingering the notes on a tiny piano keyboard and blowing into the instrument through a tube. Warning: I think the video may be wonky and caused my computer to jam up, but I'm not certain it's the culprit.
My kindergarten teacher was, as I recall, very old-school and probably did think left-handedness was all Satany. She led the class in a daily prayer, which was probably pretty freshly illegal at the time.
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(Alas, on my laptop the tuba is completely inaudible.)
It is probably no coincidence that sinister is derived from the Latin for left.
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