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Whenever I tell people that I'm taking the Rhetoric of Harry Potter class, people look at me like I'm crazy and then they realize it's a fucking Harry Potter class and start asking me all of these questions about it - a lot of them are pretty good and valid questions like what it's like, do we just sit there and talk about Harry Potter all day, or what?
There has been more than one occasion where people have asked me whether or not I like the class and sometimes I love it and sometimes I don't, mostly because writing is the bane of my existence. Sure, it's good and all, but when you have to sit there and just write and do research, KILL ME NOOOOW. Actually, I take that back… writing isn't all that bad, it's the research that kills me because I can never ever find what I want and what I want is sometimes buried somewhere in a book that I can't find or remember where I found. Research to me seems like an art because you literally have to sit there and just click through websites to find what you need and then use it to your advantage. I've done research all this semester for other classes and it's one of the most boring things I have to do. Not gonna lie though, all of the stuff that Foley taught us in the class on how to research and what not did actually come in handy for the other research papers I had to write, but research is still the bane of my existence.
Well, I didn't actually finish the 4th book so does that mean I technically stopped at the 3rd book? Honestly, I really don't know why I stopped at the 4th book. I remember getting that book in the mail from Amazon when I was younger. My mom allowed me and my sister one thing to keep up from the summer and OMG, she was going to order it from Amazon. Excitement! I got the Goblet of Fire and my sister got some My Little Pony book. I remember reading through it and just got… bored. I had read the first 3 books on my own just fine, but seeing the monster that Goblet was, I'm pretty sure me and my mom almost fainted. Haha. I never finished the 4th book and probably never will because I have the movies. Okay, throw your tomatoes, cans, and all forms of trash at me, but I've tried more than once to get through that book with no such luck of ever finishing it.
I'm pretty sure that by this time, the storylines in the book get really intricate and I couldn't keep things straight. Reading for pleasure is really hard for me to do now because of school. Heck, I've been in school since freshmen year of HIGH SCHOOL. Summer school… yay. I never had the time to actually sit down and just read, but maybe when I graduate, I might just find the time to ready the rest of the series.
Alright, Kids. So you got into this class, so now what? You expect to talk about the latest gossip about Harry Potter, talk about the Quidditch Team on campus (shout out to Spencer), and pretty much anything and everything that relates to Harry Potter, right? Well… that's true, but mostly wrong. For most of the semester, I felt like we had a few things here and there were strictly Harry Potter, but all of it had to do with why they were controversial or why it was rhetorical.
If you're like me, you know, one of the kids who stopped half way in the series, you're going to do just fine here. You wanna know why? FOLEY! Homegirl makes you work at this class, but it's worth it because you actually learn about your writing style and how to write better because let's face it, before you got into this rhetoric class, you were writing boring ass papers about who knows what. Sure, the class is a little hard to follow sometimes because if you didn't read the books, you're not really sure what half of the stuff people talk about in the first few minutes of class, but don't just be there for the books or because you think it's a blow off class (because it's not). Go into it with intentions to actually improve your writing. If you think you know how to write, you're wrong because you can always do better.
Always remember, the first HP class is and always be the best. Here's to Rhetoric of Harry Potter Class of Fall 2010! :]
Sooo Tumblr is stupid and I don't know why it's not letting me reply to your post. Sorry, but here's the low-down. Another blog post! Huzzah! Thanks, Cat. LOL
All rides have weight and size restrictions, but most rides have modified seating for heavier set people. The Forbidden Journey does/did not so when they first opened so people stood in line for HOURS to find that they once they got up to ride, they were not able to get the correct number of clicks that was deemed safe enough for them to ride. They were asked to leave - they had to get up from the seat in front of their friends, familie and random people and leave the ride. I mean, it's pretty embarrassing and a slap in the face. There were no test seats (to my knowledge) that let people test to see if they could fit, but they've installed those already. Another thing that got people a pretty angry is that Dwight Howard, 6'11" and 265 lbs got to ride where as another person who was 5'9" and 265 lbs was not. So it's also dimension and proportions that's also taken to account.
America's waistline is expanding so it's weird that Universal Studios did not account for the issue. I thought it was an interesting issue to talk about because it got so much press, but Universal quietly installed the seats without fanfare, but I'm not quite sure how it's working out.
… and another post to my quota…
In the paper that we just wrote, I wrote about how larger Harry Potter fans were turned away from riding the Forbidden Journey at Universal Studio's The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. I know, I know. Contain your excitement. When Harry Potter fans were sitting ready to be strapped down for the ride, many did not know that in order for you to get the okay to ride, you needed to have 3 clicks. I basically said that Universal needs to move quickly to remedy this problem because they're gonna lose big money and perhaps a lot of fans. Okay… maybe not a lot of fans because Harry Potter had a build in fan base, but lots and lots moolah.
After I turned in my paper, I kind of wondered if they had actually done anything since this whole controversy thing happened. Turns out, to my surprise, they did. A couple of months ago, Universal moved to install seats at the end of the Enchanted Benches that were modified to fit heavier set guests. They still have to get the 3 clicks in order to ride, but this is a move in the right direction. So, Universal, I applaud you, but not gonna lie… you've kind of moved down the lists of brownie points.
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Negotiating Spaces for/through Third-Wave Feminism - http://bit.ly/cDIjaU
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Find a partner.
Tell your partner what you want to write about. If you don't know, write down 2-3 topics that interest you.
— I'm writing about the controversy surrounding the Harry Potter theme park and the it's most coveted ride - The Forbidden Journey. People should boycott the ride until it's right for everyone to ride…. oooor… Universal Studios need to work faster to make seats that work for everyone. Something along those lines. I think the controversy is really interesting because Harry Potter fans come in more than size small.
Tell your partner how you want to write what you want to write—do you want to be informative, snarky, funny, serious?
— I want to be able to be informative, but I'm a pretty snarky individual so I'm going to slip in a few quips here and there. Readers should be able to feel enlightened by what I write about.
Look at blogs. You don't have to agree with each other, but find a variety of blogs that you think are worthy or not worthy of imitation based on how you want to sound.
Find 5 blogs whose style you would like to imitate.
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/ — my favorite.
Explain what you like about each one.
BoingBoing.net - This blog is a little self-deprecating, but it's definitely not at the top of my list of the kinds of blogs I want to imitate. The information is a little political centric, but I like how not serious they are, but still try to make it a little informational.
Banks Lee and the Three Clicks - Banks Lee inspired my topic so it HAS to be included, right? His writing isn't really anything to faint over, but it's inspirational and has gathered national attention since he started.
ONTD - FAVORITE BLOG EVER. It's not really a blog… it's more like a conglomeration of celebrity news with commentary. It's flippin' hilarious.
Stuff White People Like - Come on. Who doesn't love how they write. This is probably how I most want to imitate my style.
Newsfeed.time.com - This is a little gem. You wouldn't think that this exists on Time.com, but this one isn't as… snarky as SWPL, but this another one that I think I want to imitate my style from.
Find 5 blogs whose style you do not want to imitate.
Explain what you do not like about each one.
Huffington Post - Ugh. I've found great things on here before, but it's really kind of on two ends of the spectrum. Some posts seem pretty serious and others not so much? Pick a side dammit.
PerezHilton - I love me some Perez Hilton, but honestly, I only look at this blog when I'm bored. It's really just a conglomeration of other news stories and most of the time he talks about himself and he thinks that the world revolves around him. Merrrh.
I can has cheezburgers - This was funny the first time and now it makes you look stoopid.
DrudgeReport - Yeah, no.
TMZ.com - They are usually the first people to report on celebrity news, but they're kind of bitchy and obnoxious, which is what I don't want to be.


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Another suspenseful "moving" day at the Masters as players fought hard to put themselves in position to contend for the championship on Sunday. With many player chasing their first major championship, you can expect the final round to be full of drama.
While Saturday began with rain that caused a suspension of play, it wasn't long before the skies cleared, the conditions softened slightly and players once again tried to take advantage of the few birdie opportunities the course yielded. Check out the slideshow to see how some FootJoy players fared on Saturday.
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Defending champion Zach Johnson made a strong move up the leaderboard on Saturday after sharing low round of the day honors with a 4-under 68. Check out this post round interview to hear Zach's thoughts on his round and the course and his expectations for the final round.
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The players teed off on schedule for round 2 under beautiful conditions. The forecast called for partly sunny skies, temperatures between 75-80 and winds around 10mph. The course should be drying out now after all the rain last weekend so look for scores to come back a bit over the weekend as the course firms up. Several FootJoy players continue to hover near the top of the leaderboard (Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood) while others made a charge on Friday to jump into the mix (Vijay Singh). Check out some photos from Friday in the latest slideshow from Augusta.
Englishman Ian Poulter continues his solid play at the Masters and is just three shots off the lead as he looks to make a run at his first major championship this weekend. Poulter carded a 3-under 69 on Friday and now has only two bogeys through two rounds on a very demanding Augusta National golf course!
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Advance Monthly Retail Sales, on the internet in html and spreadsheet formats, released roughly 9 days after the close of each month. An early report of monthly retail sales and trends by kind-of-business groups at the national level. The figures are based on a subsample of the Census Bureau's retail trade survey sample. The series provides the following: advance estimates for the current month, preliminary or final estimates for the two preceding months, and final estimates for the same two months a year earlier. Both unadjusted figures and data adjusted for seasonal variation are included.
Kind-of-business groups are based on SIC through 2000. NAICS-based categories will be reported starting in 2001.
Monthly Retail Trade: Sales and Inventories, on the internet in html and spreadsheet formats, released roughly 6 weeks after the close of the reference month. A monthly report of sales estimates, summarized by major kind-of-business groups for the United States.
Reports show preliminary figures for the current month and final figures for months earlier in the reference year. National estimates of end-of-month inventories and inventory/sales ratios are also presented. Both unadjusted figures and data adjusted for seasonal variation are included.
Kind-of-business groups are based on SIC through 2000. NAICS-based categories will be reported starting in 2001.
(Data for census regions and divisions, and selected states, metropolitan areas and cities were dropped for budget reasons after the publication of 1996 results.)
The Annual Benchmark Report for Retail Trade republishes a ten-year time series of monthly data, as illustrated below.
Annual Retail Trade: The Annual Benchmark Report for Retail Trade, series BR/[year]RV is published in print and pdf several months after the close of the calendar year. It includes estimates of annual sales, per capita sales, gross margins, monthly and year-end inventories, inventory/sales ratios, merchandise purchased, gross margin/sales ratios, and accounts receivable balances for the U.S. by kind of business. Comparable statistics are shown for the previous year, along with year-to-year percentage changes. Monthly data, both seasonally adjusted and unadjusted, for the most recent 10 years are also presented.
Kind-of-business groups are based on SIC through the publication of 1998 data. NAICS-based categories will be reported for 1998 and 1999 in the 1999 report.
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By doing a web search for intentional communities, specifically in the bay area. It seems to be the most up-to-date place to find out about openings.
A group of people who intentionally decided to live in a certain space together and to share certain resources and events and who make many decisions together and who enjoy each other's company and learn and help each other.
For us, the most likely will be to rent/share right now. We are looking for family-friendly housing (we have a 1 year old and the house has to be relatively baby-proof). We need to move at the end of January. We would love to find a place that has other children.
We like the Berkeley/Oakland area. Any relatively safe area is ok for us, we just don't want to be too far away from SF because we go there on a regular basis. Other than that, we are open.
Hello. My partner and I have been living in the bay area for about a year now and have a 1 year old baby. Im from the east coast and am an artist.
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Welcome Marina! Welcome to the area too! I wanted to also invite you to Itsy Bitsy Yoga (Yoga for your baby!) It has shown to help with sleep, digestion, muscle and brain development too! We also offer Baby Sign Language classes, free music trial classes and lots of outings and playdates too, we look forward to meeting you both! Itsy Bitsy Yoga is Thurs. at 10:30 am as a drop in class at Sports Basement WC, see you both soon! P.s. Think the "M" in ur email was forgotten, plse. fix due to cmn!
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Thank you, Star-Telegram, for your Monday story regarding the impending implosion of the East Weatherford Street bridge.Your specific details about traffic rerouting allowed us to avoid a traffic nightmare Monday night, and when the explosion occurred later in the evening, we just turned to each other and said, "There goes the bridge."I am glad someone told us in advance.-- Winston Barney, Fort Worth
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(WMC-TV) - This week's "Your Turn" segment comes from the Action News 5 Facebook page where people are commenting on the Germantown High School principal who offended some parents with a presentation on student test scores.
The principal gave the scores to the students broken down by race. Not everyone was offended. We chose a comment from Misty Harrison-Dotson. In her words:
"My child goes there and also fits one of the groups the principal mentioned. It starts at home. Then, it's up to my child to do what is expected of her, period. She was not offended because I have raised her not to find some kind of excuse not to do the best she can. The world can be an ugly place and I as a parent have given her the tools to handle it when she is on her own. Nothing is ever given to you. You have to work hard and make good choices period. And sometimes you have to put a little fire under some to motivate them."
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Reflections on Carole Simpson's visit to Lesley, by Dr. Barbara "B.J." Addison Reid
Monday, February 11, 2013
To hear Carole's story causes one to admire her accomplishments. Simpson, a graduate of the University of Michigan, began her career as the first woman to broadcast radio news on station WCFL in Chicago, Illinois.
She moved to television in Chicago and into NBC News in 1974, becoming the first African American woman to anchor a major network newscast. She joined ABC News in 1982, and was the anchor of the Sunday edition of World News Tonight from 1988 to October 2003. Simpson became the first woman and the first person of color to moderate a presidential debate when she moderated the debate between George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot.
Simpson has good instincts and a nose for news. Simpson knew Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In January 1966, King and his wife moved into an apartment on Hamlin Avenue in Chicago. During an exclusive interview with King, Simpson learned King's reason for being in Chicago, which was to face Mayor Richard Daley and draw attention to segregated housing conditions for Chicago's poor people. Simpson's perseverance in getting the King interview and lead story became a pivotal point in her career.
To feel her story causes gut-wrenching pain. Simpson endured racism and sexism and ageism. Hers is a story of survival in a male-dominated profession that placed the highest premium on white males. Like many of us, when confronted with a response, "No, you can't…" Simpson cried, got mad, and then took the "No's" like vitamin pills with a glass of lemonade, and she continued to strive to move herself forward.
Today, Simpson has returned to teaching and she is a Leader in Residency at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, teaching journalism. She visited Lesley University on February 7 and spoke before an audience in the University Hall Amphitheater, followed by a reception and book signing of her book, "NewsLady."
Simpson's lecture was sponsored by the University Diversity Council at Lesley University, whose mission is to help all members of the Lesley community find common ground, while providing opportunities to value and support diversity-related efforts at the University and in the community.
Dr. Barbara "B.J." Addison Reid is the Director of Equal Opportunity and Inclusion and Title IX Coordinator at Lesley University.
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Officials in Hocking County released a transcript Thursday of the confession of Sandra Inman, who pleaded guilty to murder charges in the death of her daughter-in-law in 2011.
The confession helped investigators find the body of Summer Inman in a septic tank behind a church in Athens County in March 2011.
Sandra, her husband Bill and son Willie, were convicted in Summer's death.
Sandra is serving 15 years to life in prison.
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Willie Inman was convicted and sentenced to life without parole.
Bill Inman was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility for parole.
In the newly-released confession, Sandra told investigators that it was her idea to kidnap Summer.
She said the three of them wanted to talk to Summer about custody of the children and get rights to see the on weekends.
She said they never planned to kill her, but that Willie put a zip-tie on her neck instead of her feet and it was an accident.
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The magic finally ran out. Lodi High School's upstarts rolled into Power Balance Pavilion with history on their mind, just one upset away — in a postseason full of them — from a first-ever Sac-Joaquin Section crown.
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Hello today I will be showing you 3 stardolls of random talents. It will be two royalties and one non-superstar.
First royalty: JD-96
This is for her suite and for her amazing sense of style. Her suite is so simple yet so chic and you barely find that on stardoll since most people like to pack their suites with as much furniture as possible. I think she is an awesome inspiration!
Second royalty: Jodierox10
For her amazing designs. I think this girl puts incredible amounts of accuracy into her designs. Like the London 2012 logo. You can tell she has spirit for the olympics! I love her winky face design because you don't see many of them around stardoll.
The non-superstar: MosEisley
For her amazingly creative hair design. I think her hair design is amazing and I definitely don't see many of those floating round stardoll! I think she has been incredibly creative and she should be recognised for it!
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December 1, 2010 is the deadline for MN Health Professional Loan Forgiveness Programs through the Office of Rural Health and Primary Care at the Minnesota Department of Health.
According to the Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, the purpose of Minnesota's Loan Forgiveness Program is the recruitment and retention of health care professionals to needed areas and facilities within Minnesota.
Applications are available online. Note that most programs require applicants to apply while still enrolled in a program of study or residency.
Loan forgiveness is an important benefit for health care professionals as well as health care facilities and communities experiencing a shortage of access to primary health care services.
Contact Amy Vallery for information on these programs at email@example.com or 651-201-3870.
Posted by hans1247 at October 29, 2010, 11:32 AM | Permalink
Central MN AHEC has launched a versatile social hub at http://cmnahec.com/.
The site links students, health care professionals, and other stakeholders to the latest events, news and information pertaining to Central MN AHEC and their mission.
Visit the site to follow the Central MN AHEC blog, follow them on Twitter, or join them on Facebook.
Also watch for more to come from other regions in the Minnesota AHEC Network.
Posted by hans1247 at September 23, 2010, 2:32 PM | Permalink
MN AHEC staff were able to take part in the Day 1 events that launched the new 1Health initiative for new health professions students. The event took place September 17th at the Northrup Auditorium at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Central MN AHEC Executive Director Laurissa Stigen, medical student and recent RPAP student Mark Vukonich, and Central MN AHEC Regional Specialist Lori Larson at the Day 1 event.
Day 1 launches the first phase of the 1Health interprofessional education initiative at the Academic Health Center.
Posted by hans1247 at September 21, 2010, 9:09 AM | Permalink
August 26, 2010
Tri-State AHEC Conference
Moorhead, MN
MN AHEC representatives from Southern MN AHEC, Central MN AHEC, Northwest MN AHEC, and the MN AHEC Program Office met with representatives from South Dakota AHEC and North Dakota AHEC to discuss common goals and efforts in the areas health professions training and placement.
Posted by hans1247 at August 31, 2010, 11:39 AM | Permalink
Central MN AHEC Executive Director Laurissa Stigen was featured in the Winter 2010 issue of Rural Roads Online, a publication of the National Rural Health Association(NRHA)
Stigen was a 2009 NHRA Rural Health Fellow. The article can be seen here.
Posted by hans1247 at February 25, 2010, 9:48 AM | Permalink
The Staples Interprofessional Practice and Education (IPE) team will present at MN Rural Palliative Care Outcomes Congress on Thursday, April 8, 2010, in St. Cloud, MN.
MN AHEC supports 14 IPE teams, including the Staples team, and University of Minnesota Health Professions students participate in the community based projects.
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MN AHEC is proud to work with third-year medical students from the University of Minnesota who participate in the Rural Physicians Associate Program (RPAP). There are RPAP students in all four of our established rural AHEC regions.
The program is in its 38th year and has over 1,200 alumni, 57% of which chose to practice in rural areas. RPAP is a unique opportunity in clinical training wherein third-year medical students live and train for nine months in non-metropolitan communities under the supervision of preceptors who are family physicians. These preceptors mentor students in the professional and personal aspects of being a physician.
RPAP students learn clinical medicine, procedures, community health, and the business of medicine.
The program has been highlighted in the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center News Capsules. You can also check out the program's newsletter, The Rural Physician, and more information can be found on the program's website.
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Photo Credit: Steve Kohls, Brainerd Dispatch
University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks visited a Garfield Elementary 3rd Grade Class in Brainerd, MN on 2/20/2009 to see the work of Brainerd Interprofessional Education Project(IPE). In this photo, President Bruininks is trying out one of the stability balls purchased by the Brainerd IPE team for the class and the school secretary as a part of their Childhood Obesity Prevention project.
The Brainerd IPE Project is one of 14 community based interprofessional education projects supported by funding from the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center Office of Education and Minnesota AHEC.
The Brainerd Dispatch was on site to document the visit. Text from the article can be found here.
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The MN AHEC Brainerd Interprofessional Education Site was featured on a Lakeland News broadcast on August 21, 2008.
The project focuses on an interprofessional health care team approach to preventing childhood obesity.
The Brainerd IPE site is one of fourteen associated with MN AHEC across the state of Minnesota.
Central MN AHEC is involved with the project, Executive Director Laurissa Stigen is available to address any questions that you have about this project.
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Minnesota Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Health Professions cooperative agreement # 1U76-HP00599-01 funded through Title VII of the Public Health Service Act.


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8 Mistakes Parents Make With Allowance
Deseret News
Like many folks, my parents gave me an allowance when I was young. I had chores around the house and extra projects I could take on. It was a pretty sweet deal, especially since CD's had just made an appearance on the market and I'd save for weeks to hand my hard earned money over for one. A recent article about allowances piqued my interest, especially this piece of advice: you should stop calling it allowance!
The article by Linda and Richard Eyre can be found online at the Desert News. Maybe you're a new parent and could use some helpful tips or you're looking to revamp your current system. Here are a few of the tips from the piece:
1. Calling it an allowance in the first place. "Allowance" is a welfare term. It implies that someone (parent) is allowing someone else (child) to have some of the parent's money. The term itself is the antithesis of earning and owning.
2. Doling it out with no connection to work or performance. What worse lesson could we teach our kids than "something for nothing"?
3. Making it a fixed rather than a variable amount. This implies that "what you do doesn't matter, because you will get the same thing no matter what."
Read the full list of tips and their reasoning behind them on theDeseret News site. Do you agree with their advice? Do you have advice to add to their list?
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Never got one (or knew a kid in our neighborhood who got one) and don't plan on giving it to our kids.
I think they're dead wrong. If your spouse stays at home, does s/he get "paid" based on how much work s/he does in a week? An allowance shouldn't be tied to chores, because chores aren't a job that's done for money, chores are just part of being a member of a household. I think it's fine to pay kids for optional jobs that are above and beyond (depending on your household, this might be painting a shed, digging a new garden bed or cleaning Grandma's basement). Ideally, you would want that sort of job done for someone, anyone, outside the home, because that requires greater responsibility. The entrepreneurial kids can shovel sidewalks or pick weeds for the neighbors, and that more accurately represents the world of work than chores=allowance does. A small allowance as part of the household, then earn the rest.
I do think they are right to insist that kids have a financial "plan" in place. I've heard of people who give their kids allowance in three pots - spending money, savings, and charity. That makes sense.
I never had an allowance growing up, because my parents wanted to be able to veto any purchases I made. I had to ask them each time for money. I do NOT recommend this method.
My sisters and I figured out we could get more money out of our parents if we didn't have a set allowance. Not as if we got everything under the sun handed to us--extra chores if we wanted something, and we all had little after school jobs for spending money, etc. But our dad would do things like fill up our car for us when we were in h.s. so we didn't have to use our money. My husband didn't get an allowance either so I doubt our son will get one.
Thank you for this edition of Ayn Rand's: Macroeconomic for Children.
"What worse lesson"? I can think of a heck of a lot of worse things than giving a kid a buck a week.
I will check out the rest of the list, but it sounds like it'll all be about making sure none of those lazy entitled children get any of those poor supportive parent's money without working darn hard to earn it.
I'm not a fan of the allowance, although I haven't decided yet how to deal with money with my daughter. To me, chores are a part of being a member of the family, and money you can spend however you like is another part of being a member of the family. I had an allowance as a kid and I grew up VERY preoccupied with money (how much I have, how I can get more, etc). I don't think that's a particularly healthy way to feel about money.
'What worse lesson could we teach our kids than "something for nothing"? '
How about "only help out if you are being paid for it?" or "you have no inherent responsibilities through being part of a family, only those you take on in return for payment"? Those seem worse to me.
I completely disagree with everything they said there.
My parents were very clear to my brothers and I as children that when we started getting allowance it was NOT payment for chores or doing things. That's essentially bribing your kids to do work for money. We understood we were part of this family and as part, our parents were ALLOWING us some of their money each week. It was a privilege and with growing up enough to have that privilege, it was expected that chores would be done, good grades, homework done, etc. It wasn't a "do chores, get paid" it was more than that and we knew that. I grew up with a better respect for money and my parents for that.
I didn't receive an allowance as a child, but my sister (six years my junior) did. I don't think either of us is more or less responsible with money than the other.
When our eldest (now four) turned three, we created a chore chart/allowance system, but it wasn't so much with the idea of getting her to do stuff around the house; it was to cut down on extraneous toy purchases. If the money comes out of her pocket for a trinket, and she can't something until she earns her allowance again, I think that's a valuable connection for her to learn. It literally gives her a visible illustration of work and reward.
I also disagree with this. It's pretty much the opposite of my philosophy. I started giving my five year old a dollar a week (4 quarters) a year ago. She has to put one quarter in each of her three banks (spend, save, and share), and she may choose where to put the fourth quarter. This allowance is not in any way connected to chores.
I teach my children that as part of a household, you contribute to getting things done simply because you live here. If we all put in effort, we all have a better experience in our home. Also, I want them to understand that their contribution is valuable and essential to the running of our home, which I believe is excellent for self-esteem.
Weekly money is separate. I give her this small amount each week because I'd like her to start feeling confident with money at a young age, so she can be smart and responsible with it by the time she leaves the nest. I think she should have a little bit to spend, and if she wants to save it up to buy something, she'll eventually have a lot to spend. It's also important to me that she learn to save, and to be generous with others.
On the personal end, I did not receive allowance of any kind, and I also did not have to do chores of any kind, ever. This meant I never learned how to deal with money, I didn't know how to take care of my home (my college roommates taught me to do laundry!), and I learned that a mother is a martyr. I'm doing my best not to pass any of these things on to my children!
OK, I just clicked over and read further. While there are a couple of things I agree with (primarily not worrying about whether my kids' allowance matches that of their friends), I found a lot of it downright offensive. For example, this:
In reference to allowance, it says "It implies that someone (parent) is allowing someone else (child) to have some of the parent's money."
OK...so the problem is what, exactly? Yes, yes I allow my children to have some of my money. I must be setting such a bad example.
Every member of the family is expected to contribute to the household in some way, including working outside the home, or housework, or being a good student. I won't pay my kids for any of that and I won't teach tham that those obligations stem from payment. We all have obligations to each other.
Jmorri26 said it well. Allowances in our houses are allowing children some freedom to plan, save, and dream. I am not teaching my children to get "something for nothing."
I never received an allowance; mom didn't believe in them. But I did make a tidy sum cooking dinner most nights for our family at age 11+. She didn't think it was responsibility to cook a full meal ever night but I enjoyed it. She paid me about $2/meal which was awesome money but never controlled how I spent it. Both as a child and now as a parent, it was a total win-win situation. And I am a good cook...
These tips kind of suck. Here are my (I think) unrelated gripes: A) Allowance shouldn't be tied to chores. Kids do chores as members of the household. B) Nothing wrong with welfare. Those of us that have and are able should provide for those of us that don't have and are not able. Seems like parents (who have money and are able to work for money) should provide for their kids (who don't have money and aren't able to work for money). That doesn't mean just giving them money and not teaching them how to manage it properly.
I honestly can't remember if I received an allowance or not. I must have though. I do remember that I was expected to help around the house as a member of our family. And I expected to get my first job as soon as I was mature enough and legally allowed to. I started working at 15.
We absolutely call it allowance! That's the money our kids are allowed to have out of our budget, just as we have a certain amount of money allowed for food, clothing, bills, entertainment, etc. My kids DO NOT get money or allowance as compensation for doing chores. They are expected to do their fair share around the house because they are a part of the family, not because they are a paid employee. In our home we use allowance as a money-teaching tool--how to save, how to budget, and how to suffer the consequences of your own money-mistakes. We even have rules about borrowing money: They pay interest!
The book "Parenting with Love and Logic" is a great resource on allowance. The basic point they make is that giving them allowance allows them to learn money lessons while they are comparatively cheap, i.e. wasting money on impulse-purchased toys that break quickly at age 5 is much easier than on an impulse-purchased motorcycle at age 18.
And I agree with all other commenters that chores should not be tied to allowance. Duh. I mean, I don't get paid for my chores around the house, so why should they?
Each of us got five dollars a week. There was no skipping out on not doing our chores which were divided and rotated among us three. The only part of the chores I did not agree with is there were no reminders no list to check we just had to remember and I was not so good about remembering. Allowence taught us that if we did a job we should get paid for it and save up to earn the item we wanted. Or better yet bank- loan money to my brothers :D although I wish I had been taught about intreast back then but I was just proud that I could be of help to my older brothers. Its some what of a stepping stool for the "real world" if you do a job you get paid if you dont you get yelled at or introuble just like real work. no thank yous and if you mess up at work you might get yelled at written up or fired. isnt that what raising kids is really about preparing them for the real world not just trying to go against what we were taught because it is outdated???
I read a book by David Owen about allowance that's basically in line with comments here (and not in line at all with the Desert News article).
Owen's basic concept is to give an allowance NOT tied to chores, and ALSO to offer kids a generous interest rate if they bank their money, with you. I thought that was a really nice idea.
It looks like I'm in the minority here, but our kids earn their allowance... $1 per day, paid monthly. They have a list of chores to complete every day of the week. For each chore they don't do, $1 is subtracted from their total. Believe me, NO ONE in our house doesn't do their chores because slacking off could take a huge chunk of their money. In addition, they have "regular chores" that everyone is responsible for: make your bed, clean up everything you get out, etc. They are not paid for these chores, as it's part of being a family and, heck, just learning to be a grown up. I guess in the big picture, I want my children to learn both lessons: 1) that they have to work for their money - no free rides around here and 2) there are some things that you aren't paid to do - you do them because it's the right thing.
And whoever was horrified of those lessons because stay-at-home moms don't get paid, that is not true. SAHM's don't get paid in a traditional way, but their hard work saves their family thousands of dollars each year. No housekeepers necessary. Less need to go out and eat every meal. No sending the laundry out or having someone else care for your children. Folks, that is money in the bank right there!
I love the comments here and wish everyone would also post their comments on the D-News website to give that discussion some balance!
I second Love and Logic and the David Owen approach to allowance-giving--both fantastic books.
I spent a lot of time researching allowance before giving my daughter one, and learned that the debate over whether it should be tied to chores is just about as old as the practice of giving allowance. I think each family needs to do what works for them.
The way my husband and I came to peace with the practice: we give our kids books so they can practice reading, we give our kids paper so they can practice writing. We therefore give our kids money so they can practice spending and saving and sharing. We give them enough so that they can actually do something significant and it encourages them to save up for big stuff (my daughter just purchased some Rollerblades and swim goggles--and you better believe those are the most well-tended recreation items in our house). But we also expect them to purchase their clothes and their after-school activities with the money, too. I created an envelope budgeting system with her, so that she gets the idea of planning for her expenses. Finally, we figured that when she gets a job as a teenager, she will have plenty of experience with working to get a paycheck. By then, if all goes according to plan, she'll have had lots of practice in budgeting appropriately.
But again, there are lots of different experts with lots of different ideas, all of them may work for a variety of kids. The Eyres do some amazing parenting things, it's just that in this case I happen to disagree with their approach--but mostly because it just doesn't fit for US.
I just checked back, and I find it so comforting to see so many who agree with me. It looks like we've all really put a lot of thought into these things, and that in itself shows a lot, I think.
Grabbing My Happy - I was the one who mentioned stay-at-homes. I was actually thinking of my own stay-at-home husband, not stay-at-home moms, but we're used to everyone assuming that only women stay at home, so don't worry about it. I certainly understand and value what he does, and I know well that his staying at home was a financial decision for us as much as anything else. My point was that he doesn't get "paid," he does work that contributes to the family financially, but I am not his employer. I don't keep money from him is the house isn't cleaned. Familial "contributions" aren't tied to money in the simple 1:1 correspondence that the authors of that piece seem to think was necessary for children (as you yourself say, they are not paid in the traditional way). That's a far cry from undervaluing their financial contribution. Please don't make rash assumptions.
No "allowance" here. My kids, ages 10, 7, 3, do their fair share around the house. They clean their rooms, they unload the dishwasher & they regularly neaten the downstairs when it's messy, especially since it's their stuff that it's messy with! They don't get paid to do these. They are their contribution for having food, clothing & shelter. When they balk, they frequently hear, "you don't work, you don't eat." My kids are hard workers & have never missed a meal! ;) If there is something specific that they want to buy, I offer to allow them to work it off by doing odd jobs. Folding/putting away laundry is the best because it can earn them $1 per load for a full load (I really hate that aspect of laundry!). After they've saved enough money, they can go buy what it is that they want. Sometimes, they receive small amounts of money here or there from grandparents and such. They almost always donate it to a missions project at church. My husband keeps a coin jar on his dresser for his loose coins which get deposited nightly. Each summer (at VBS time) they get to empty it, count it, split it and choose how to donate it. That's how we handle money.
So questions for all of you parents who don't tie allowance with chores, what do you connect it with? Behavior? Do they always get an allowance no matter what? What is the criteria for getting and more importantly not getting an allowance?
Degerkas--I don't tie allowance to anything. She gets it for being my daughter. That doesn't mean she keeps it, though.
For instance, she didn't do her chores on Monday night. No problem, I did them for her. And, much as I would have to pay someone to come clean my house if I didn't do it, she paid me to do them for her. Totally eliminated any arguing and guess who did her chores without any resistance at all last night?
I give an automatic $2 a week. That way she can buy a small treat one week; or save for 2 weeks & get a small My Little Pony or something, more weeks of saving = bigger purchase.
While this is generally static, there have been weeks where I've told her that her behavior doesn't warrant an allowance. Alternatively, there are some weeks where her behavior is above expectations and I might contribute a couple bucks extra.
Her chores are just stuff she HAS to do. She has to keep her room clean, help w/ dishes, etc. That's just a given in our house. Her allowance is a supplement to her. Sure she gets presents on her bday/xmas and an occasional trip to the ice cream shop, but I use her allowance as something she has the flexibility to decide on.
We're also big on sharing. Make a lot of cookies? Give some to the neighbor. Got a new toy? Bring a friend over & play with it together. Have change from your purchase? Put it in the bucket the shelter or something. I don't teach her that the other kids should just work to get their own darn toy.
I think allowance should be just part of being in the household and not being of an age to earn money yet. Not tied to anything, although if a kid were abusing use of money (buying old girlie magazines? gambling? why do all the money-related infractions I can think of sound so unlikely?) I could see withholding an allowance until the kid can prove s/he can handle it.
Kari M. - I was raised similar to how it sounds your daughter is raised. We helped out around the house, as members of the family... and we received an allowance, as members of the family. Neither was directly tied to the other, but if you weren't going to keep up with your responsibilities (i.e. chores), you couldn't expect to have your right to your allowance. It worked well, and it made sense to us.
Our allowance was a fixed amount, which I think is a good thing, as it helps teach budgeting skills. You can't plan a budget without any idea of how much money you will be receiving. Recent studies have found that a child's ability to defer gratification is one of the biggest predictors of their future success, so budgeting and saving are really important habits to foster in young children.
"Nothing wrong with welfare"
Well said!!
I completely agree with pyewacket, LeahE, jmorri26 and several others. Kids should do chores because they are part of the family not because they are being paid. I give my son an allowance and it has been awesome. Every time he wants to buy something, he has to use his allowance. Video games, video rentals, candy, etc. He has learned that there are consequences for not planning. Also it has taught him about choices. He knows he can't have everything he wants; just like the rest of us. This year we are having him keep a journal of what he spends his money on so he can look back and reflect on his choices.
"Doling it out with no connection to work or performance. What worse lesson could we teach our kids than "something for nothing"?"
What nonsense. I would be fascinated to hear how the Eyre's children made payment for all the breastmilk they consumed as infants. Those moochers! And do their kids have to pay for their room and board with little tokens they earn doing household labor? Let's face it, the status of children (moreso the younger they are) is pretty much "getting something for nothing". It's called perpetuating the species.
"we give our kids books so they can practice reading, we give our kids paper so they can practice writing. We therefore give our kids money so they can practice spending and saving and sharing."
Exactly! Not everyone is privileged enough to be able to give their children money solely to teach them how to manage it, but I am, and I'm aware of how fortunate that makes me.
Chores and housework, on the other hand, are part of the family ecology of living together. Things get done because they need done.
If my kids carelessly break, filch (like from each other) or gratuitously waste something, they do pay for that out of their money. The fact that stuff costs money, it doesn't grow on trees, is another financial lesson they need to learn.
I like to give a regular weekly allowance and also "paid jobs," or extra jobs on top of the kids' chores, where they can earn extra cash. I save those special jobs for this category (cleaning the baseboards, behind the toilet). The paid jobs have to be perfectly done to merit the extra moolah.
Putting down people who are on assistance (welfare) is not really a good thing to teach children.
I'm in my 60s, and we didn't get an allowance when we were children, but my mother would always give us a bit of change when we'd pick up something at the corner mom & pop store, "for going." Kids were much less obsessed with money then! And it was a thrill that you got money just for going! I always smile when I think of that expression. You went to the store for your mother because it was the right thing to do, but you were also given a pat on the back (and a little monetary reward) for doing it!
Are you aware that the article you are linking to wasn't published in "Desert News" but in "Deseret News", which, as the name indicates, is likely an emanation of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints, a.k.a. it belongs to Mormons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_News
So, it's very likely that the article is strongly adhering to the values of that church, rather than rooted in recent research on children's psychology.
Janet, I was thinking that it also probably was connected to the religious doctrine.
To answer the question about what I connect allowance to: nothing. It's a small amount of money. My children get to have some tiny opinion about how money can be spent. They have a tiny bit of money to buy gifts for others or to donate. And they'll save a tiny bit which, one day, might add up to be something.
I don't connect the tiny weekly amount to anything, just like I don't make them earn their food, I don't make them earn their clothing, I don't make them earn the heating bill. And I don't make them earn this tiny amount of money that, as far as I'm concerned, is part of their lifelong education in how to become an independent and functioning adult.
Janet: The Deseret News is in fact owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints (the Mormons), and while it often takes a more conservative journalistic stance, it nevertheless is a mainstream newspaper published here in Utah. Richard and Linda Eyre are members of the Mormon church, as well.
However, please be aware that the Eyres are respected authors and speakers regarding a variety of parenting issues, and Richard served (during the Reagan administration) as the director of the White House Conference on Parents and Children. (http://www.theeyres.com/eyre_biography.html)
Nevertheless, the article itself does not aim to speak for the Mormon church; neither do all Mormons take such a conservative political stance (yours truly being one of them).
I learned some valuable lessons from both methods as a kid. My parents "allowed" me the opportunity to have a bit of pocket money (like, $1.00 a week in quarters, but it started off with small change as a way to learn counting), and if I went above and beyond the normal call of duty, I had opportunities to raise extra.
I wanted one of those American Girl dolls when they first came out, but if anyone remembers, they weren't cheap then either. The lesson I learned was hard work, patience and saving over spending. I kept track of the amount I saved up, and knew exactly how much time I'd invested in it. In the long run, I value that lesson far more than I valued that doll.
I have a problem with the idea that children should be paid to do things (chores, cooking, etc) that are part of normal family life. And why would we teach kids that these things -- dishes, cooking, helping parents -- are *jobs*, and not very normal household activities?
This is really interesting. My brother and I both got allowances but they weren't implemented very fairly. I was expected to do the dishes every night (by hand after the dishwasher broke and was not replaced) and all my brother had to do was take out the trash once a week at least which he managed to whine his way out of and had my dad do for him.
Guess who has had a steady job history since high school and who has been OK with if not expected other people to support them because they don't want to work?
I don't agree with their advice. It's basically recommending parents to pay their children for work and pay more for a job well done. That's a a bit too commercial in my eyes. I think it's better to push children to want to be help out as a way to demonstrate their love, respect and care for others, not for a financial reward.
Just a note on the tips being in a Mormon publication: It does not reflect the views of the Church as I know it. Every week we run a free store to give food & necessities to those in need. Free. Every year we collect toys for Toys 4 Tots, without expecting those children to work off their presents. We hold drop-in tutoring sessions for children of all economic class, again for free. Many of us recognize that even though our time is valuable, and we have worked hard for the money we have, there is a greater good. There are those in need, and we need to function as a community that takes care of all it's members, regardless of their ability to repay us.
Just as we function as a family at home. Heaven help my daughter if I start billing her for expenses :-)
I didn't have an allowance but I wanted one very badly. As a pre-teen, I started to get invitations from friends to go do things:to the movies, to the mini-golf course, to the mall, out for ice cream, things like that. I'd ask my parents for permission and then for money. Often, they'd give one but not the other. It was very confusing and embarrassing. My friends would sometimes treat me but more often I'd just stay home. Having a bit of pocket money to spend as I pleased would have been so liberating. Eventually, I started babysitting and then got an after school job when I was sixteen. And yes, I continued to to chores around the house.
This has been a very interesting discussion. I remember reading Kiplinger's Money Smart Kids when my daughter was very young and thinking it had some good ideas in there. Now that my daughter is at allowance age, I should go back and visit it.
I know a family who gives their teenage children quarterly clothing allowances. The children have become very value conscious (shopping at second hand place, forgoing name-brand trends, etc). I thought this was an interesting idea.
I think giving children money without strings is a useful lesson. It is good to make little mistakes and learn the value of trade-off at a young age. I especially liked LeahE's comments and I think Saral08 speaks to why a parent might want to give some spending money to their children. And Esan's comment demonstrates that using your allows to save for a goal.
My husband and I gave each other allowances for many years before we had a child. It was great; no guilt, no resentment, no overspending or underspending, and I know a lot of couples do the same. Did he take money away if it was my turn to cook and I didn't? Did I take his away if he didn't fold his clean laundry for 2 days? No, or course not -- that would be disrespectful. Why do we treat our children with less respect than our spouses?
Back when I was canvassing door-to-door for an environmental campaign I went to a house where, after my introduction, the woman who had answered the door called her young son (definitely under the age of 10) over and asked me if I could tell him about the reason I was there. She asked him if he thought it was a good cause and he said yes. He got out his little bank and handed over five dollars. His mom explained that she gave him an allowance expressly for making donations. She'd give him information on different programs or charities and he would pick which ones to send his money to. I think that's pretty much the best parenting tip I've ever gotten, and plan to do the same thing if I ever have kids. It's a three-for-one... there's still the value-of-a-dollar/savings lesson, but there's also the opportunity to learn a bit about a broad range of issues, as well as teaching about the importance of giving back and helping others. Pretty awesome, if you ask me.
I started allowance with my kids when they were small and have evolved it as they've grown into teenagers, expressly so they don't have the experience saral08 did. The amount has gotten bigger over the years (currently $10 a week, they are 14 and 16) but I buy the things they NEED like shampoo and bus cards and lunches. (If they want something like a cool t-shirt or whatever, they have to buy it themselves.) I also pay my daughter for babysitting her baby brother, and bump up allowance if one has to do something like walk the dogs all week bc the other is at camp. I've also been known to give them extra cash if they are doing something special, like going to a carnival. In my home, allowance is not tied to chores but they do have chores.
This year, when my son turned 16, we opened up a checking and savings account for him, complete with a debit card. It's tied to my account so I can keep tabs on his spending and also deposit his allowance directly. So far he seems to be handling his money pretty well. He does need to find a job though!
Jillandmo: True. But if nobody cooked, you'd have to spend money on take out, and if neither of you did the laundry, you'd have to pay to have it cleaned.
I think that goes back to the point, though, that each family has to do what works for them--the debate over paying for chores or not. The way our own family dynamics work, having my daughter pay me to do her chores was not disrespectful (what would have been disrespectful for me would have been to yell and/or nag at her, or to allow her to let me do them for her without consequence, or for her to not contribute to the household); however, I can totally imagine family dynamics where you'd have to work it out differently.
I think household chores are something that you should participate in for intrinsic, not extrinsic reasons. It's part of your role in the family to contribute to the household tasks.
I do think allowance money of some sort is important to teach kids about managing money. Learning to save and that "you can only spend it once" is something you can't learn in theory and as a kid, the stakes are much lower than if you have to figure this out when you leave home. When I was a teenager, my parents gave me a yearly allowance and boy was that a lesson in budgeting.
Janet Brandt - Yes, the article is from the Deseret News and Kari M. did make the correct clarifications in the comments below you.
Kari M. - Thanks for being on top of it for me!
Wow this is a really good discussion. Thanks for answering my questions about not linking allowance to chores. I totally agree that there are some really life dependent lessons that can be learned from receiving an allowance.
Growing up, I got a fixed allowance based on my age which got larger as I got older. If we did all of our chores for the week, practiced our instruments and did our homework, we would get our allowance on Sunday morning. I never really felt like I was getting paid to do chores, so I suppose it was more like if my responsibilities were completed then I got my allowance. If not, then it was forfit. Also I believe my parents started a kid friendly savings account for me when I was fairly young. I remember using that to save up to buy my little sister a Jasmine barbie doll which she really wanted for Christmas as well as my first real mountain bike in 8th grade (which I owned for 12 years). It was a great learning tool to save for what I really wanted and how to budget for it.
I got an allowance when I was a child, enough for penny candy and going to the pool, etc. It wasn't much, but I didn't have a lot of expenses. I was a child! We did earn extra, but it wasn't through chores, we set up lemonade stands and such. I guess the monetary aspect wasn't a big thing when I was growing up.
I am surprised so many people are against this. I think children should have typical chores, making bed, cleaning dinner table, etc. that don't get paid for, but I also don't just give them money for nothing. If they want something they have to work for it, and any thing they are paid they have to give 10% to charity, before spending.
What is wrong with teaching your child that they have to work for what they want? Maybe that is what is wrong with our world today...not enough people were taught to work for what they want. I guess Mom and Dad were the first line of credit.
I'm in the same boat as degerkas. My allowance stopped once I turned 16 because that was the legal age to start working in more job sectors.
I might add that no matter if a kid receives any manifestation of allowance or not, I can only hope that the adults the kids have as role models use their money well. Wouldn't it be weird if the kid got allowance and the parents were going into bankruptcy?
Actually you can combine both systems - I used to have a weekly allowance when I was a kid, with no expectations attached. But there were some chores that everybody hated, and you could get an upgrade for doing those.
Totally disagree with many of these tips. I won't pay my kid to do chores; they have to do them because they are members of my household. When they're older they will also get a modest allowance to do what they want with...that autonomy, I hope, will teach them how to budget.
saraI08 raises a very good point. My MIL's family was very poor growing up, and she vividly remembers how her mother's friends would all go for coffee, and her mother couldn't because they didn't have the dime. Like it or not, not having spending money shuts people out of a lot of social opportunities. True, no one needs to be a high roller to have good friends, but little things like ice cream and bus fare are so important to developing healthy social networks, especially for adolescents who are learning to be more independent.
"What is wrong with teaching your child that they have to work for what they want?"
It's not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just that it's such an inconsistently applied idea; somehow it only gets whipped out for allowances. Do your kids do chores to earn their birthday gifts? Do you require a 1:1 ratio of floors mopped or porches swept for the monetary value of each
meal? Do they have to wipe down a windowpane for every sheet of paper they use up while they draw or paint?
I want my kids to learn to work, but I don't want them to learn to work because they have the idea that they're entitled to a tangible reward directly connected to every task they do. I want them to learn that being part of a social group means everyone puts in and everyone gets out. For kids, that manifests as doing chores around the house because they need to be done and then having needs (and not-so-much-needs) met, like food and clothes, gifts and allowances.
I didn't get an allowance as a child either and don't plan on giving my children one. I agree with the philosophy that chores are part of being part of a family. I do give my daughter incentives (a toy for example) when she's filled up her reading incentive sheet....
Common mistakes? That implies that there are clear right and wrong ways to deal with allowances. I love reading condescending posts.
I've seen it work as a marriage of two ideas...
Yes, the child is part of a household and there are age-appropriate chores to do. They will always get a fixed amount for doing them all, but they will get docked privileges (or money) if they are not done or if they act inappropriately. If they went beyond the chores, then they were not given more money, but they did earn more privileges. Every kid I know that's followed that "allowance" plan has turned out pretty well.
Every household dynamic is different. In our house hold our 5 year old has been getting an allowance since he was 3. It started at $1 a week and now has progressed to $5 a week. In that time we have been able to begin the understanding of managing money. If he sees a toy he wants at the store he can only get it if he has enough money. He understands that he needs to save his money. If we tell him he cannot afford a certain toy he does not argue and accepts. Believe me this did not always happen. He will usually choose to save his money. I do not see anything wrong with teaching him the value of money. His chores are handled differently, he has a chart so he can keep track of what he did and at the end of the week he can see his weekly accomplishment. He is very helpful without expecting something in return, because he is thanked and told he did well or he tried. He is a part of the household and he does need to learn the responsibility of caring for himself. I think if you are honest with your kids and are respectful to them they will become honest and respectful adults. As long as you are teaching the value and responsibility of money, I do not see why not. He has been told that his dad contributes financially and his mom contributes at the home and we work together to make a family run. Not to offend anyone but I do think we stay at home parents are technically paid, I eat here, live here buy clothes and necessities and entertainment. Yes I contribute through keeping the house afloat ect. and I know we work hard, but I am still being financially supported by someone else.


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awenybrenin reblogged your link: All the butt-hurt in the cultural appropriation tag
Literary Appropriation? What. On. Earth. have you DONE!? Oh gods…the Literary Justice Bloggers… I can't!
Oh can't you just see it now.
"How dare Chris Nolan take the plot of The Dark Knight from Othello. Shakespeare worked hard on that play and other people shouldn't steal his work."
"Oh yeah!? Well Shakespeare stole all his stories from Roman and Greek Mythology. How DARE he steal the religious stories of another culture and use them to make money!"
The clash of the literary/culture appropriation bloggers.
Oh Lord forgive me, what have I done.


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Demand shifting across flights and airports in a spatial competition model
AbstractThis paper investigates the nature of day-to-day competition between flights using a unique panel data set on prices and inventories. We use instrumental variables methods and several spatial autoregressive models (SAR) to estimate price reaction functions. The primary source of product differentiation is departure time. After controlling for flight-specific characteristics and various sources of price dispersion, we find important evidence of demand shifting between competing flights. Most of the shift is being captured by flights scheduled to depart within a 3-hour window. We find no evidence of demand shifting between airports.
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Colour me amazed. Climate Change deniers wrong again.
I used to go to Anthony Watts' WordPress blog to read the diatribe and participate in the discussions. His blog, "Watts Up With That?," is a conglomeration of reports and commentary about the ongoing climategate scandal. If features articles from "scientists" (notice the quotation marks [notice the parenthetical call to attention of the quotation marks]) the likes of Robert Ferguson , Dr. Frederick Seitz (who also was paid by big tobacco to deny its link to cancer) and Dr. Timothy Ball, an Exxon-paid hack. Not that Exxon , or other big oil companies, would have any financial interest in convincing the public that climate change isn't real.
I say I used to visit the site, because I was moderated out of commenting when I correctly pointed out a few errors in logic and the funding sources of much of the research relied upon for Watts' content.
So, it gives me great pleasure to direct you to this link:
Anthony Watts: Disastrously Wrong Again
Visit the USA and get a free grope.
If you visit the USA someone will either take very poor, digitised naked images of you and your family or you can opt for
heavy petting an enhanced pat-down. For some, it may be their only hope of contact with another human. What is better, you don't even need to fly first class to get your free grope.
The free grope is fine for adults but it is quite wrong for adults to be groping children.
Of course neither the free grope or the cancer causing naked picture do anything but provide an illusion of security. It is pure kabuki theatre to convince people that the Airport Authorities are doing something. TV and newspapers scream terror and then politicians react. The public get nudie pics taken of them or physical abuse. The ACLU is taking up the issue and they want reports from members of the public.
There is a Boycott Day on November 24, which suggests that everyone flying on 24 November demands their right to a free grope.
Airports really need a better solution. The Airline companies think it is stupid. Some airports are running out of space to fit all the stupid machines.
Profiling is not the solution. Unless you want to separate the religious from the non religious. Most planes are not hijacked by scary Muslims, they are in the main hijacked by scary Christians.It is not the religion that unites these people, it is their level of crazy.
What works is intelligence. Airports need to liaise better with the Security Services. Sharing of information between intelligence authorities works. The nudie body scans did not stop the printer bombs. The Intelligence Services did. If you are going to build a bomb you are going to trigger some alarm bells. Airport authorities should invest more in intelligence services and not new gadgets. Ask any home buyer of gadgets, as soon as you buy one a newer better one will be out within weeks, making your new toy obsolete.
Cough, Banker, Cough
Stewart Jackson is the Idiot MP for Peterborough. According to the Telegraph, he claimed more than £66,000 for his family home, including hundreds of pounds on refurbishing his swimming pool.
He owns a large house in Peterborough as well as his old home in Ealing. The taxpayers are paying for his home in Peterborough.
Despite claiming his Peterborough home as his second home so he could get the taxpayer to pay for it, his website (which was also taxpayer-funded) claims
they live in Central Peterborough with their daughter Isabel. He helped small companies with their Human Resource/Personnel issues and is a specialist advisor in the "Investors in People" quality standard.
His method of thanking the constituents that paid for this largess, to call them a bunch of whingers and moaners.
Those whingers and moaners re-elected him, they are a forgiving bunch in Peterborough. So now he is sitting pretty on taxpayer largesse, he is forging a career on the back-benches as an idiot rent-a-quote MP.
On learning that STD's were on the increase Jackson twitted on twitter:-
"Very disappointing news on STD [sexually trasmitted disease] rates in Peterborough. No doubt our liberal friends will tell us we need more sex education – as it's worked so well!"
Well abstinence only education worked so well for its key proponent in America.
To stir the hornet's nest some more (as well as gain some more publicity) Jackson added "Touched a raw nerve with shrill intolerant pro-sex education lefties who don't like debating the issues. Wonder why not?"
That's bad enough, but he then adds:-
"sad, tedious sex-obsessed leftie weirdos" who were "unable to debate issues without personal abuse and vicious shrill denunciation".
What seems odd about this is that the BBC is reporting that Jackson is creating this fuss while he is on holiday; so poor old Stewart must be extremely bored given that he wants to stoke up a war of words from his holiday hotel room.
Some facts for Mr Jackson to ponder while he is on the beach. England has a very poor sex education record and as a consequence one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy and youth STDs in the developed World.
Before he debates anyone on the subject, I'd suggest he starts to read up in the basics first. Starting with a comparison of how other Countries deal with sex education.
The Google doodle of Hubble is really quite clever
Google have replaced their normal logo for a doodle of the Hubble telescope to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
Hovering your mouse pointer over the telescope brings up the words "20th Anniversary of Hubble Telescope Launch by NASA". Clicking on it brings up the Google search page for "Hubble Telescope", while clicking on "I'm feeling lucky" brings up the Hubble's own website. What is much more interesting is if you click your mouse on one of the stars in the picture you are then directed to google sky, a space version of google street-view that allows you to zoom in to see the stars at a very high-resolution; nearly all of the articles covering this Google doodle have missed this.
Hubble is 20 years old today, it is due to be retired in 2013. It orbits Earth every 96 minutes, 360 miles above the surface of our planet, at a speed of five miles per second.
It has beamed hundreds of thousands of images back to Earth, it has allowed scientists to estimate that the universe is around 13 billion years old and has been key to understanding dark matter. 30,000 research projects have been successfully concluded as a result of Hubble.
Its replacement, the James Webb Space Telescope is expected to launch in 2014.


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I'm moving the way we deploy printers over to GPP and have got a problem where it causes an issue when logging onto Terminal Services. We don't need printers installing when using TS so I wanted to get a WMI filter to exclude the machines begining with TS. Can I do this by using something similar to below
We still have some Windows XP clients so I thought it would be easier to apply the Group Policy only if the user wasn't logging onto a TS machine rather than applying it to every Windows Client we have.
Would this work?