Posted on Friday, July 11, 2008 by curtis klope
I’ve talked about him before, but this post is further confirmation that Merlin Mann is a genius. He weighs in on some recent New York Times articles about (lack of) Productivity for the average white collar office worker in the US, he made some amazingly helpful comments towards the end of the post.
I would HIGHLY [...]
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Posted on Sunday, June 1, 2008 by curtis klope
I found out about a really interesting blog from a post on 43Folders.com. It’s called:
“Free Range Kids: Let’s give our children the freedom we had!“
If you’re a parent, or would like to be one some day, I think it’s worth reading a bit. Here’s a blurb about the site:
Do you ever: let your kid ride [...]
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Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 by curtis klope
A lot of great ideas here, check it out.
Social capital is built through hundreds of little and big actions we take every day. We’ve gotten you started with a list of nearly 150 ideas, drawn from suggestions made by many people and groups. Try some of these or try your own.
1. Organize a social gathering [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 by curtis klope
Alfie Kohn, a well known writer on issues of parenting, education, and human behavior, has pointed out that in most cases saying please is simply a meaningless ritual, an automatic trained response, and that the only reason to teach kids to say it is because others expect and will think you rude if you [...]
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Posted on Saturday, September 29, 2007 by curtis klope
Just read an interesting post over at the Jesus Creed blog (Scot McKnight), and it reminded me of a post I did the other day about a children’s Bible that I bought to read to my son.
In this post, Scot is talking about a few books that he read recently concerning people who grew up [...]
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Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 by curtis klope
ok, wow. THIS sounds really good…
<Spousal Comment> Becky, I just bought this for us to read to Silas, and it will be here on Monday… Thanks dad, for sharing your Amazon Prime!) </Spousal Comment>
Like the title of this post says, the book is called “The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name“. [...]
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