Parenthood

Being a parent is like watching over you friend who has taken way too many mushrooms while you have also taken a reasonable amount of mushrooms. You don't really know what you are doing and whats going on but you're pretty sure they shouldn't be putting that in their mouth. One of the best analogies I have heard from a standup I can't remember.

Listen Up Johnny

One great thing about having kids is they have to listen to all the stupid things you say and they even think you are smart.

Table Top Trust Fall

Table top trust fall for a surprising flash of a range of emotions.

Create, Evaluate, Analyze

Begin discussions by randomly selecting students to make a statement about a given topic on the board. The statement can have elements of truth or be completely false, it doesn't matter and the student doesn't have to tell anyone if they think its true or not. The class instead has a discussion as to weather or not they think the statement is true or not. Additional suggestions Place a despised but necessary task after discussion so that it could be pushed back by a longer discussion for participation motivation. This exercise provides Understanding of value statements through the gradual realization of what kinds of statements lead to longer discussions. Discover the complexity of issues combined with varying perspective.

Top of the Class

In any size group of children, some will rise to the top and some will sink to the bottom. Therefore we should regularly segment off the top rather than remove from the bottom so that everyone else will be rewarded for positive achievement and utilizes social structures.

Manifest destiny #1

Adam and Eve tells the story that even in a perfect world man is destined to sin. A poor environment can therefore not be an excuse for sin.

Sextuple Negative

He incorrectly rejected the null hypothesis of no reduced depression.

Running in the Halls

I'm going to start a petition to allow running in the halls. Kids issues are under represented in our legislation.

What is that

Sometimes I follow a random train of thought and it takes me to places where I don't have knowledge so I end up asking the people around me some ridiculous non-sequiturs. It always seems like I'm asking grammatical questions out of context "What is that?" "No sorry, I mean what part of speech is the word that"

Product Placement

Tv/movie product search BIG IDEA

Hunter/Gatherer

In the paleolithic era, a defining gender roles of society was of men hunting and women were gathering. This defines a large portion of the differences between men and women (here I must give deference to the miracle of childbirth). While many qualities that make men superior hunters to women are immediately obvious to me,(just look at the Olympics), the comparable qualities that make women better at gathering escape me. Does anyone have some answers?