I’ve got another episode from the Homeschool Photo Contest to post, but am waiting for just the right time. Ha. Meanwhile, here’s how you should goof on instead:
1. Read this article from the Apparent Project on Why You Should Not Mail Peanut Butter to Haiti. No, really, take it out of the bubble-wrapped package and eat it yourself. Haiti thanks you. Because it turns out that shipping bunches of free stuff to impoverished countries undermines local businesses. That make peanut butter. Or would, if only Haitians weren’t getting boxes of the stuff from other countries. Go read.
2. A longtime friend, engineer, amateur gunsmith, and EMT, sent us this YouTube video on Gun Safety. PG WARNING: If your head is screwed on straight, there’s at least one scene that is objectionable even for comedy noir. It also means you aren’t the target audience. [Hint: If you have given up watching action-adventure shows because all the egregious gun safety violations– by law enforcement good guy characters no less!!– have caused you to throw your tv out the window, you aren’t actually the target audience for this clip.] But it is funny. With proper parental guidance as required.
3. Look, Sarah Reinhard one of my favorite writing friends, has a new book out:
She let me look at one of the later drafts, and it is a really nice little book. If you are looking for a family-friendly Advent Book, I’d give it a recommend. From what I recall, it is protestant-friendly. But just e-mail her and ask if you have any questions or concerns, she is one of those extroverted writers who likes to talk to readers. Or leave a comment in her blog combox. She’s totally chatty. Super Nice Person. Happy to talk about her books any day.
4. And is just me, or does it look like the new John McNichol book is now out on Amazon?
Serious coolness.
Not for people who don’t read genre fiction. But highly recommended if you are looking for fun, readable Catholic GKC Sci-Fi Alternate History goodness in a package your boy will enjoy. Do you know of a different book that will cause an 11-year-old boy to beg to read Huck Finn? Maybe you do. Or maybe you think that no day is complete without the threat of an alien attack. In which case, McNichol is your man.
Aw shucks (blush, blush) did he really ask to read Huck Finn? You really know what to say that will make an English teacher beam with happiness. 😀
God bless!
JDM
He’s read Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and would have layed into _The Prince and the Pauper_, but he discovered our copy had pages missing. I thought it would be better to wait on _A Connecticut Yankee . . ._.
Also he googled every historical reference he could identify, and had figured out that Margaret must be somebody, though until your clue, I didn’t know who, so we had given it up. [He still does not know, I don’t think.]
Mothers approve. :-).