Bad Journalism Award of the Day

National Public Radio is something that I usually enjoy a lot, but their current article and radio piece about the release of Horton Hears a Who calls pro-life advocates "Abortion foes".  It makes it sound like being pro-life is some condemnable evil.  I hate to break it to them but pro-lifers aren't the ones killing innocent babies.  My bad journalism award of the day goes to NPR.  

Let kids be kids...

I found this article on the importance of imaginative play for children.  It caused me to think about a lot of things, but what it really lent me to thinking about was how controlled children's play has become.  Children do not need things to engage in productive play.  They really only need the capability and the permission to imagine.  The article also reminded me of something we have talked about in my Developmental Stages course--we were entertaining the idea that parents spend too much time structuring their child's play.  No wonder kids these days have no self-control; nobody allows them the time to develop it.  It is far past time that parents, schools, teachers, and toy companies give kids the opportunity to just be kids.