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What’s your parenting Achilles’ heel?
"I think moms often have our own versions of the Achilles’ heel. Those little issues that get under your skin, even if they don’t seem to bother anyone else.The things we’re most sensitive about, worry the most about, spend the most time defending to ourselves or justifying to others."

I’m Christian, unless you’re gay.
"Before I go on, I feel I must say something one time. Today’s post is not about homosexuality. It’s not about Christians. It’s not about religion. It’s not about politics. It’s about something else altogether. Something greater. Something simpler.

It’s about love.

It’s about kindness.

It’s about friendship

“Oh, but you’re not gay? You’re clean, and well dressed, and you have a job? You look the way I think you should look? You act the way I think you should act? You believe the things I think you should believe? Then I’m definitely a Christian. To you, today, I’m a Christian. You’ve earned it.”

A Teen’s Brave Response to “I’m Christian, Unless You’re Gay”
NOTE: Yes, I bet you can guess where this is going, but definitely worth a read.

Want to understand today’s kids? Read this…
We, the Web Kids

Saudi princess: What I’d change about my country a BBC Magazine article.

"I don’t take my kids outside to play. I SEND them outside to play" where Meagan Francis talks about how kids can still play, outside, without structure.

Use Google Forms to collect important data? Perhaps contact info? Vicki Davis tells her tail of warning in her post "Why Schools Shouldn’t Use Google Forms For Anything Private (Lesson Learned)".

Want to do something good in the world? Check out Free Wheelchair Mission. (Thanks to Kristen at RageAgainstTheMiniVan)

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This week brings a very random smattering of things to ponder.

From Google Chrome extensions 
by Corina Mackay. (I use 4/5 of these.)

to tips for preventing eating disorders in children 
on Rage Against the Minivan with a smile acronym S.M.I.L.E.

and finally pondering technology in
Is ‘gaming’ the new reading? on Pyburn’s Ponderings

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We, the Web Kids by Piotr Czerski
We do not use the Internet, we live on the Internet and along it.

Why Does Writing Make Us Smarter?
The different brain processes used for writing by hand and typing [have] found that there are cognitive benefits to putting a pen to paper. These findings give support to the continued teaching of penmanship and handwriting in schools.

Functional bathtub made from booksby Cory Doctorow
The idea is of immersing oneself in knowledge, books, truths…

And Dr. Seuss for the Digital Age…