February 2012
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when gifted kids become adults... →
Gifted children do not disappear when they graduate from high school or finish college or graduate degrees. They become gifted adults. If they enter adulthood blind to their unusual mental capabilities, they may go through their lives fragmented, frustrated, unfulfilled and alienated from their innermost beings. What is different about the gifted individual is his or her mind. Not understanding...
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Our kids LOVE their school. come on march 3, 1p.m.... →
my twins have been going to the Center for Blended Learning for two years running.
i decided to transfer them there from a traditional school because:
a) i observed that they weren’t reaching their full potential in a trad school set-up;
b) this particular trad school and i were not aligned values- and academic-wise;
c) it’s always been my dream to homeschool, and Kids Ahoy-Center...
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look who's driving an e-jeep! :) →
Sen. Ralph Recto drives an eJeepney, one of a fleet of electric vehicles plying Makati’s business district which recently received the country’s first commercial eJeepney franchise.The Batangueno senator, author of the Alternative Fuel Incentives Bill together with Secretary Lucille Sering of the Climate Change Commission;Red Constantino of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable...
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burn all the liars by matt evans (now THIS is an... →
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The New Yorker: Poem to Daniel Pearl →
newyorker:
Note: A couple of weeks ago, I spent some time in Los Angeles with the parents of Daniel Pearl, a brilliant and courageous reporter for the Wall Street Journal who, ten years ago this month, was kidnapped and slaughtered by terrorists in Pakistan. At the time of his death, Danny’s wife, Mariane,…
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On narcissistic parents →
hahahahaha may kilala akong ganito! hahahaha
…At first glace, living the life of a narcissistic parent seems like a true self sacrifice.
Everything is about the child and it looks as if the parent gives up a lot of adult pleasures to be involved in their children’s life and activities.
However, as it happens the child is not an end, the child is a means for something else....
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The Jerusalem Syndrome: Why Some Religious... →
when seeking becomes “being”….
There’s a joke in psychiatry: If you talk to God, it’s called praying; if God talks to you, you’re nuts. In Jerusalem, God seems to be particularly chatty around Easter, Passover, and Christmas—the peak seasons for the syndrome. It affects an estimated 50 to 100 tourists each year, the overwhelming majority of whom are evangelical Christians....
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The Story Behind the Olympus Scandal →
Woodford, 51, recounted how he had just returned from Hong Kong, having fled Tokyo after a board meeting in which Olympus Chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa had fired him. The cause for dismissal, according to Woodford: his insistence that Olympus officials come clean about a series of questionable purchases dating to 2006, totaling $1.6 billion, none of which had been adequately reported in the...
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helicopter parents: chill! →
