Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gummo.UUCP Path: utzoo!hcr!decvax!harpo!gummo!ber From: ber@gummo.UUCP (ber) Newsgroups: mod.ber Subject: net.kids Message-ID: <1008@gummo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 23:43:58 EST Article-I.D.: gummo.1008 Posted: Thu Mar 8 23:43:58 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 23:20:05 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany Lines: 55 Approved: ber@gummo.UUCP Net.kids, 02/20 - 03/06 Summarised by Ian Darwin, utcsstat!ian Only about 20 articles (including several duplicates). Baby furniture Is "Dimension 4" furniture, which grows with the kid, good, gimmick, or rip-off? Home Schooling Recommendations on home schooling, including the address for the "Growing Without Schooling" newsletter by John Holt. Re: Home Teaching - (nf) ``Anyone smart enough to post an article to netnews can do a better job'' than the bozos in today's public schools. Dealing with Family Disagreements One method of getting the family together: all sit around a table and write `what bothers me' lists. Sparked followsup about the particular tasks the kid in this family gets to do. Re: What's in a name? Carried on from before. Several articles. Moving around to taking fathers' names (`, Jr.' and 'III'); several more articles. Catch-22 for gifted... [special programs, skip-a-year, etc.] Wasting less of your life in a stupid school system is a Good Thing, but having to be `peer' with people several years older while growing up is a Bad Thing. For Randy D. Smith only Why is this here? Because somebody gave out a wrong mail address, and the sender wanted everybody to see that he really was trying to get through to Randy. Mothers stay home Working Mother stung by stereotype: ``all the other mothers stay home'' when picking the kid up from daycare. In fact the other mothers work too; how is this stereotype reinforced, and I wish it would leave me alone. Superman vs Darth Vader Who would win if they fought? [Please send the correct answer by *mail* only, do not publish this secret information on the net...] Jungle Gym Plans or Kits Request for places to get plans (or kits) to build play structures, swings, ``Jungle Gym'' [tm?] style mini-gymnasium, etc. Several followups said that Popular Science and/or Popular Mechanics are good bets. Cat's Cradle Posting of the Harry Chapin song (popular a few years ago) as a ``reminder of what's important with kids.'' An original LBJ A light bulb joke about two year olds. Not repeatable. Keep those kids and letters coming, folks... Ian