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In a message dated 5/8/2003 10:19:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, <I
kellibac@... writes:

> Yes, it's true, this is how I feel and I thought tonight a good opportunity
> to shout it out:) I have been reading and reading for four months now and
> now I just come on specifically to see what Sandra says. I don't know how
> you became this wonderful, but you truly are wonderful, (and I don't even
> know ya) I just feel so grateful to have come on here and been turned on to
> this way of thinking about my children. Just the whole TRUSTING our
> children is sooo empowering to them and to us. I keep saying to my two year
> old all the time now when she is trying to destroy her sister, "come here,
> I like it when you are near me." and she feels so great about it, I want to
> be with her, and she wants to be with me too! This was Sandra's advise and
> I am so blessed:) Thanks , Kelli
>

I just wanted to say that I got to meet Kelli's delightful older daughter
Molly and Kelli's very cool mom the other day. Molly and my son Julian are
taking a freshwater biology class at Mass Audubon. I look forward to meeting
Kelli, too.
Kathryn


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Paula Sjogerman

on 5/8/03 9:17 PM, [email protected] at
[email protected] wrote:

> Anyone who believes that if schools don't teach The Three
> Little Pigs that children will grow up never having heard the story
> obviously grew up in a cave and emerged one day as an adult,
> squinting into the sun and saying, "Uh, like, what country am I in?"
> The reason I have the Core Knowledge Sequence was because I was
> infatuated with the idea of cultural literacy for the three minutes
> it took to type my credit card number on the webpage. When it came
> in the mail and I read through it, I realized you would truly pick
> this stuff up on accident.

All you have to do is watch The Simpsons every day.

I'm not kidding.

Paula

Betsy

**All you have to do is watch The Simpsons every day.**

We've recently enhanced our Simpsons "curriculum" with Futurama DVDs. A
whole new universe of cultural references. <g>

Betsy