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Quip Pro Quo: A Fast Retort

September 26, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: First of all, I despise censorship. Banning books is akin to banning people; both are abhorrent to the collective intelligence, and both bring us down as a culture. It’s one thing for someone to decide that a certain book will not be allowed in his/her house – every parent has that right – [...]

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Facades Are Fake.

August 17, 2010 – 9:46 pm

Mamacita says:  All this talk about how it’s the teacher’s fault whenever a student does badly at school. . . . I can’t help but think that these people must blame the photographer if their kid is homely.  Isn’t it – sometimes – the same thing? Photoshop faces or abilities or personalities all you want: [...]

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Making the Grade. . . .

July 11, 2010 – 12:02 am

Mamacita says:  I hate to admit this, but this was my attitude about my kids’ grades, kind of. . . . Factor in individuality, talent, brains, work habits, etc, and you can’t help but have a set of expectations, and expectations should be met. I know that there are exceptions to this and most other [...]

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Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

July 7, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says:  Regarding any educator at any level, in any capacity, and in any kind of economic region, who is not making an effort to be extremely computer-savvy. . . . shame on you. I know first-hand what kind of travesties can occur when an administrator doesn’t know anything about a computer, and I think [...]

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I Agree With Aristotle.

July 3, 2010 – 3:46 am

Mamacita says:  There are many things that are wrong with and in this country – many, many things. Open a newspaper, watch television, listen to the radio, surf around the blogosphere, pretty much all we hear about are the things that are wrong. We SHOULD be hearing about them, too; if we don’t hear about [...]

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How Well Do You Know Your Fairy Tales? Not Disney Versions; I Mean, REAL Fairy Tales?

June 26, 2010 – 6:35 am

Mamacita says:  It’s quiz time again!  This time, our topic is fairy tales, which were, as everyone once knew but few people remember now, never intended for children at all.  Don’t get me wrong: I love the Disney animated fairy tales, but I’m also a fairy tale purist, and the cleaning up of those gory [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Curiosity

March 13, 2010 – 1:36 am

Mamacita says:  Children are naturally curious.  With each passing day, an infant is more and more curious about what’s going on in the world around him/her.  When is this happening?  When is that happening?  And, later, WHY is this happening, or not?  Add to this everything in between, and it’s little wonder that it’s so [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Censorship

January 30, 2010 – 3:51 am

Mamacita says:  If I owned the biggest and best thesaurus in the universe, I still would not be able to find a word accurate enough to fully express my disgust and loathing of censorship, nor of the mentality of those who censor.  Yesterday’s post touched on this topic – or perhaps, more accurately, grabbed the [...]

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Intercourse, Asses, and Dwarves in Gay Apparel

January 29, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says:  I loathe euphemisms and most political correctness.  They cheapen the language. Euphemisms and PC are a kind of censorship, and censorship is the action of a weak, fearful,  and ignorant mind.  Smart people understand that many words have more than one meaning.  Weak and ignorant people can’t, and, unfortunately, weak and ignorant people [...]

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Limited-Vocabulary Readers are the Devil. Yes, THAT Devil.

January 6, 2010 – 10:46 pm

Mamacita says:  I don’t think there are any words coined yet that would adequately describe the complete and total loathing I have for simplified, edited versions of good books. I’ve heard quadrillions of elementary teachers argue that small children learn best when there are few challenges, but I have to disagree with that, too.  How [...]

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