John and Michelle Holmstrom

Monday March 31, 2008

Robert Fagles Died

RIP

(Hat Tip: RRLS)

Wednesday March 26, 2008

Math is easy

Katherine finished Kindergarten math this week. She'll have a little break before she starts up on the 1st grade math book.

When the 1st grade book came in the mail, she was so excited she wanted to finish all the lessons K book that day. Michelle made sure that they went a little bit slower than that.

Monday September 03, 2007

Socialization

Here's a quote from a physchologist being interviewed that I found today:

Socialization is just a process by which we learn to be part of a community. So the question is, what community do we want our young people to learn to be part of? Some parents have said to me, "Aren't school and high school, in particular, very important for socialization?" And my emphatic answer is no, because we do not want young people socializing with each other. We want them to learn to join the community that they'll be part of their whole lives. We want them to learn to become adults. Right now, they learn everything they know from each other-that's absurd, especially since teens in our society are controlled almost entirely by the frivolous media and fashion industries.

If you look through most of human history or you look at many cultures today, you find that teens spend most of their time learning to become adults. Here, they spend most of their time trying to break away from adults.