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- kovac9478, on 11/15/2008, -1/+11MOAR!!!
Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high
Take a look, it's in a book - Reading Rainbow. - reflex768, on 11/13/2008, -2/+8Great stuff. Some are quite sinister looking actually. Love this one. What's in the box? Cyanide canisters? Bioengineered monster? Dark imagination on my part perhaps.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jl-incrowd/2490694321 ...
This is one compositionally elegant, but equally strange:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jl-incrowd/2454476967 ...
And I always love tentacles creeping around the edges of things:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jl-incrowd/2490697767 ... - BossKey, on 11/15/2008, -0/+5Dugg for "Encyclopedia Brown"
- robbob, on 11/15/2008, -0/+3Apparently, back then there were no cameras so they had to illustrate
- Enderplayer1, on 11/15/2008, -0/+3I totally read "Ramona the Pest" great book for children
- inactive, on 11/15/2008, -0/+3frontpage = mrbabyman submission.
buried. - victimofkratina, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2GOOSEBUMPS FTW!
- rand21althor, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2Dugg for Mr. Popper's Penguins
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jl-incrowd/2454474921 ... - BugMeNot2, on 11/15/2008, -1/+3oh shi-
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2160/2454478439_f8d ... - roxgod666, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2I can go anywhere
Friends to know
And ways to grow
A Reading Rainbow - betheturtle, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2How old are you? 10? 9? Did you just learn the word *****? Shut up.
- Tooch07, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2Book It!
- DickyT83, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2The Pizza Hut coupons and stuff you got for being a member were so sweet.
- mikeopubco, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2Too many great books from my childhood to list here. Dugg. Thanks, subby!
- CrushThemTorg, on 11/15/2008, -1/+3Worst vacation I've ever been on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jl-incrowd/2246330793 ...
- lolsupk, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2nsmb?
- copypastry, on 11/15/2008, -1/+2THE LEMONADE TRICK.
The trick is it's dog piss. - zephyrnug, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1I remember ordering those books back in elementary school, so cool. I wish they had it for adults...do they?
- mediaspree, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1I remember a "Back To The Future 2" behind the scenes book from Scholastic which was awesome.
- vofuse, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1It's called common sense. Get some.
- bjorna, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1p?
- loopyloopy, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Spooky tricks was my favorite...........levitation FTW!
Alvin Fernald good too - WhiZa, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Sadly the book business is being dominated by educational software, and a lot of these great books won't be given a chance.
- restlessmouse, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Torg, that is downright scary. What kind of sick mind would put two babysitters, four babies, and presumably Bigfoot, on a deserted island. And then sell that story to impressionable little girls. It's wrong, I tell you.
- inactive, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Very Nice
- nxsty, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Holy *****! It's Longcat!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jl-incrowd/2490693381 ... - Kyan, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1OMG!
- inactive, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1learning finances, understanding job markets and raising children does not come from comon sense.
Whats it like to have the brain of a two year old? - timster, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1"Most people aspire to buying their own house for when they decide to settle down. Seems like a good asset to have, right? Think again. As long as you're paying off the mortgage on that house, it's a liability, a debt to pay off, not something bringing you any immediate returns."
The house IS an asset. The mortgage is the liability. When you have finished paying off the mortgage, you still have the house.
What do you propose? Renting? - oneblueye, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Junior Scholastic is alive and well and elementary kids can and do place orders that are delivered to the school.. points/prizes can still be earned.....however, it seems that first and second graders are the only students who participate..... at least in the school where I teach......
- inactive, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1Except for basic math and reading comprehension, the public school system is an absolute waste of time.
Are you one of those people who say they never learned anything in high school? Me too. I learned very little about real life in high school because there were critical topics that never appeared on the blackboard.
1) Parenting
Carrying an egg around for a week isn't parenting. The sad thing is just doing that class assignment would have already put you "in the know" compared to most other high school graduates.
Looking at how you were raised by your parents will rarely prepare you for the real thing, which is why so many people agonize before having kids and then get stressed out when they do. Or worse, they become bad parents.
2) Financial Literacy
Can you read a company's financial statement? Could you read one when you finished school?
Let's try another example- do you know what the difference is between an asset and a liability?
Most people aspire to buying their own house for when they decide to settle down. Seems like a good asset to have, right? Think again. As long as you're paying off the mortgage on that house, it's a liability, a debt to pay off, not something bringing you any immediate returns. And because you're covering a mortgage, you're actually paying much more than the house cost the bank to buy it for you in the first place.
3) Job Hunting
People should love job hunting. It's a chance to do something better, to raise your standard of living, to move up in the world and improve life not just for you, but your dependents as well.
So then why does everyone hate looking for work? Because they were never taught how to do it. As a result, they lack self-confidence and steel themselves for potentially months of the resume-interview-rejection cycle and should hardly be surprised when they meet those low expectations.
If school education were more relevant to reality, perhaps more kids would see the connection between education and their success in the world and may be more motivated to do well in school. Can't just schools have something that teaches the kids on real life, how to live independently and to overcome problems that involve money and the development of careers. Schools just breed a nation of dumb kids. I can't tell you how many times since I left school, I've encountered situations which made me feel lost because school had not prepared me for them.
- Cannonballkid, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1I remember the book clubs in elementary school I always enjoyed getting a book or two from it
- kaosethema, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1memories...
- RizzoFrank, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1Mr. Blue is an hero.
- StuartWilson, on 11/15/2008, -0/+0I still have my copy of "Everything happens to Stuey," mostly because the main character has the same first and last names as me. Although I never got into trouble with MY chemistry set.
- inactive, on 11/15/2008, -2/+2anyone else remember the math book "666 Jellybeans"?
- cshel65, on 11/16/2008, -0/+0Thank you! I took a short walk down memory lane and shared the view with some "old" friends (who are at this moment taking that same short walk). I think it would be very retro to have a Scholastic bookcover as wallpaper.
- longlukey, on 11/15/2008, -4/+3front page?
- acash0902, on 11/15/2008, -3/+1im drunk and this is perfect right now, i dont know why
- abesdrisb, on 11/13/2008, -9/+4***** the books, id flip the pages of that mother ***** till i found the good *****...sea monkeys.
- aobtd, on 11/15/2008, -8/+2i gotta sleep
- inactive, on 11/14/2008, -11/+3Buried....
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