Comments on: How to find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing http://www.almostgotit.com/2010/01/29/how-to-find-the-bright-places-where-boom-bands-are-playing/ So, kids are mostly raised & I've just gone back to work... Tue, 03 May 2011 14:46:12 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kansas City Bands http://www.almostgotit.com/2010/01/29/how-to-find-the-bright-places-where-boom-bands-are-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-3714 Kansas City Bands Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:45:49 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/?p=1201#comment-3714 Excellent read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch! :) Excellent read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch! :)

]]> By: Fr Dave http://www.almostgotit.com/2010/01/29/how-to-find-the-bright-places-where-boom-bands-are-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-3660 Fr Dave Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:03:26 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/?p=1201#comment-3660 Oh and thank you for tolerating run on sentences... Oh and thank you for tolerating run on sentences…

]]> By: Fr Dave http://www.almostgotit.com/2010/01/29/how-to-find-the-bright-places-where-boom-bands-are-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-3659 Fr Dave Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:02:02 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/?p=1201#comment-3659 Wow! Dr Seuss and weird flashbacks to a 70's childhood of strange fabrics and lots of hair and my dad with a moustache and energy crises and presidents resigning and and and and Reading that poem makes me laugh when i see the way we are publicly raising this generation of children...just put the word "don't" in front of everything and then the kid will be safe. What was he thinking telling them they have to get out there, be themselves, expect disappointment and joy and surprise and danger! Sorry to sound like a rant but here in Britain (the world's most successful third world country) we have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in europe and yet we have the most sex educated generation that has ever existed. No matter how much we like to "protect" or caution children and keep them from discovering the world, they will discover it and probably be worse prepared for it because we just left them to it with an instruction manual rather than advice. Who reads instruction manuals before they screw up the project? Thank you Almostgotit for reminding us that the best advice is go for it (but watch indiana jones first just to learn that stepping forward and then stepping back sometimes stops a lot of pointy edged sliding doors from squishing you on the way to treasure and adventure) and be a kid. Wow! Dr Seuss and weird flashbacks to a 70’s childhood of strange fabrics and lots of hair and my dad with a moustache and energy crises and presidents resigning and and and and

Reading that poem makes me laugh when i see the way we are publicly raising this generation of children…just put the word “don’t” in front of everything and then the kid will be safe. What was he thinking telling them they have to get out there, be themselves, expect disappointment and joy and surprise and danger!

Sorry to sound like a rant but here in Britain (the world’s most successful third world country) we have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in europe and yet we have the most sex educated generation that has ever existed. No matter how much we like to “protect” or caution children and keep them from discovering the world, they will discover it and probably be worse prepared for it because we just left them to it with an instruction manual rather than advice. Who reads instruction manuals before they screw up the project?

Thank you Almostgotit for reminding us that the best advice is go for it (but watch indiana jones first just to learn that stepping forward and then stepping back sometimes stops a lot of pointy edged sliding doors from squishing you on the way to treasure and adventure) and be a kid.

]]> By: Almostgotit http://www.almostgotit.com/2010/01/29/how-to-find-the-bright-places-where-boom-bands-are-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-3648 Almostgotit Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:30:06 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/?p=1201#comment-3648 <em>I think there have been a few take-offs on the idea, but yes... this is the original Seuss.</em> I think there have been a few take-offs on the idea, but yes… this is the original Seuss.

]]> By: Lavenderbay http://www.almostgotit.com/2010/01/29/how-to-find-the-bright-places-where-boom-bands-are-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-3647 Lavenderbay Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:30:49 +0000 http://www.almostgotit.com/?p=1201#comment-3647 Is this the original version, then? My parents briefly had a book with similar front cover and same title, which outlined all the places a budding Senior Citizen could look forward to visiting (doctors of all sorts and their infamous waiting rooms). Is this the original version, then? My parents briefly had a book with similar front cover and same title, which outlined all the places a budding Senior Citizen could look forward to visiting (doctors of all sorts and their infamous waiting rooms).

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