Mrs. Chili
September 30, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Kizz, I know it, huh?! I was flabbergasted. I know for sure what he’s NOT going to do with HIS kids..
See, Zoe? My demands change, too, depending on who I’m dealing with. When I’ve got college-level students who should KNOW which pronoun to use or that conjunctions don’t start sentences in academic writing, then I hold them to that (ditto the people who make signs and present other writing for public consumption). Right now, my goal is to get my kids writing – we can worry about the details later – so it would not be in service to my goal to pick on them about their abysmal spelling and complete lack of grammatical convention. We’ll get there – oh, don’t you worry; we’ll get there! – but not just yet.
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Darci
September 29, 2009 at 2:19 pm
I LOVE office supplies – I am a flair girl but might have to give your pens a try.
Finally, Pleeeeaaassee, email me your PDF.
Mwah
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twoblueday
September 24, 2009 at 10:02 am
Ah, but Mr. Korzybski forgot to mention the best way to slide through: I don’t invest things with “belief” at all, and don’t trouble myself with doubt. When presented with some bit of information I have no independent means of verifying, all I can do is keep in mind that most of the time it matters not one whit whether I judge something true or false (so I don’t), and that if I’m in a position of having to take action (relative to that information), all I can do is consider the source (like you, mrschili, would not lie to me), and muddle through the best I can.
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