OT: On the Teen Best Seller List, Fiction...

For those who have been living under a rock, don't watch Oprah, etc.....

How long before this becomes mandatory reading in kindergarten?

It's actually an educational book that teaches kids the colors of the rainbow.

You know, good 'ol Roy G Biv.

Gotta go with the duffer here, that's disgusting! I'm very open-minded when it comes to sex education (Hence my comments on the 'kindergarten' thread), but this is beyond the pale.

Natalie

And earlier Wickeddoll® wrote: I'm often quite amazed at what my kids already knew. My son referred to s**en as 'baby batter' when he was 10!

And you don't know where he got the information.

Enlightened parents will use this book to open another channel of communications with their kids.

Actually, he told me who said it

In a perfect world, yes, but I don't believe for a second that this sort of crap should be promoted.

Natalie

Let us know how "educated" your daughter has become after you read this book to her.

Why would he read it to her?

Ninth graders can read, well most of them, anyway

Natalie

Good job Natalie!!

My grand-daughter told me a year or so ago (at 14) that there were kids in her middle school, near Seattle, talking about trains. He dad is an engineer for railroad so I asked her what about it.

This "train" is apparently where the girls line up to perform oral sex on a line of boys. I guess lines move ie "train".

Did anyone bring up "askAlice"?

Ron

Oh my....to top that off, kids are under the very mistaken idea that oral sex is completely safe, because you can't get pregnant, but exchanging bodily fluids is the same, no matter the route, and I've always made sure my kids know that.

Do you mean 'Go Ask Alice', the movie about drug addiction? If not, then that must be yet another pop culture term

Natalie

That's why I enjoy tinkering with cars. Even when asbestos was still used and we thought nothing of breathing chemicals and dust, there was nowhere near the level of brain damage that you get from exposure to teens.

Then again, I read a book called "Manchild In The Promised Land when I was

11 or 12...

"Run!" Where? Oh, hell! Let's get out of here! "Turk! Turk! I'm shot!" I could hear Turk's voice calling from a far distance, telling me not to go into the fish-and-chips joint. I heard, but I didn't understand. The only thing I knew was that I was going to die.

Thus begins Claude Brown's 1965 novel Manchild in the Promised Land. It is a chilling opening, a window into the violent world of Harlem's black children during the 1940s and 1950s.

Brown died on Feb. 2 in New York City. He was 64.

Given the drugs, crime and violence smothering many black inner-city communities today, Manchild's message still resonates. If I were teaching a literature course in 2002, I would require all students to read Brown's classic novel. Black students would read it to witness the folly of such a life, whites to better understand how the majority culture -- through physical isolation and institutional discrimination -- can create a class of permanent victims.

Brown went from reform school to, if I remember, prison and came out of it all a successful lawyer. The book was fascinating, and I read it again a couple more times.

One of my favorite passages was when he was in reform school, and the warden was telling him a fable:

Two frogs fell into a vat of cream. They started swimming, and after hours of swimming one of the frogs said, I can't do this any longer, I just can't take it! and stopped swimiming and drowned in the cream. But the other frog said, I will never give up as longf as I can swim, I will swim until I just cannont swim any more. So he kept swimming and swimming, each stroke getting harder and harder. Just when ho thought he would not be able to take another stroke, he found himself sitting on top of a vat of butter.

*Snipping stuff to concentrate on razzing Hachi*

When were you a girl of 11 or 12... or did you mean you *saw* this girl?

muhahahaha

Natalie

She was talking about Louis B. Brown here...do try to keep up...

No, not Trolled. Just doesn't grasp the concept of a Rhetorical Question.

He knows -he's a Trek buddy to both LMB and myself, who went out for an evening troll...

No, I mean 'Snack' is just trolling. Don't worry - I fwapped him severely; disturbing part is that he liked it...

Natalie

LOL! Troll? Whew. You need to step back and take a look at this group again. THere is a lot of controversy here, and I was making a post adding to it. No Trolling involved.

If I were Trolling, you'd ALL know it...

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Demonstrate absurtity by being absurd." I love it. But, unfortunately, it is LOST on TOO MANY people...

Here's an example: back 25 years ago, when I first started my career, I went to work for a company in the Field Service Dept. From day one, every meeting we were told we would get a refrigerator for the department. Three months passed. Still, at every monthly meeting, we were told there'd be a refirgerator by the end of the month. We got a new manager. Another 5 months passed. We get ANOTHER new managr. At HIS second monthly meeting, he says we'll be getting a new refrigerator (mind you, all this time we had had NO refrigerator at all!)

Finally, his 4th monthly meeting, he says we'll get a refrigerator.

I was in the back and said, "Somebody say something about a refrigerator?"

Everybody laughed, but because they thought I was dense. Not ONE SINGLE PERSON got the sarcasm. Not one. I couldn't believe how dense they thought

*I* was, when THEY couldn't see the irony! Absoulutely unbelievable.

Um, we NEVER got the refrigerator...

Does this, uh, sound familiar?

Whew...

Not you, ya doorknob - 'Snack' *rolling eyes

That's it. No more crystal meth for *you*, young man

Natalie

That explains why Starbuck's coffee is so damned much.

-LMB

I type too fast!!! WAS=SAW!!! LOL!!!!