4. Watching TV and/or Movies

a. What a great way to reinforce reading schedules! Use TV Guide or newspaper for these answers. What starts on Tuesday at 8 PM on channel 4? When does that show end? b. Tell your child name of a show that you watch on Friday. Use schedule to find channel and time it starts. Try naming a program your child does not watch so he will not automatically know answer. c. If you are allowed to watch only one TV show, but there are two you would like to see, what will be criteria for which one you choose? Reinforce critical thinking! d. Read description of a particular episode. Can you determine if it will be funny or scary? What will make you decide if you are going to watch it? e. At beginning of show, predict outcome. At end, were you right? During a commercial, ask your child to predict what will happen in next scene. f. Practice summarizing by writing or telling a synopsis of show when it is over. Make sure to answer who, what, where, when, and why questions. g. Describe, in detail, a particular character. How would you change him?

Rather than having a 30-minute lesson, questions should be sprinkled throughout day, especially in summer and on vacation! This will keep your children on their toes but not bore them!

I hope these ideas have been useful and have inspired your own creativity.

And remember...Reading is FUNdamental!!

‘The flower children and groupies are not often willing to do work that many business types and academics have done. I have found what I think of as independent thinkers (Which is main characteristic of a Hippie, I think.) in all social groups or walks of life. Michel Foucault and his students at Sorbonne or Pierre Trudeau and Jean-Paul Sartre and his beau are established thinkers of genre. This book and work required of any forum seeking change will try to explore why they are so unable to get a larger audience to actually take ethics they speak about and apply them in real world changes.

I will have to get past Hegelian Being-ness and other confused Neo-Platonic rhetoric to nuts and bolts of Gothic ideas and historical agendas again. I guess cultivation of positive emotions can assist in a therapeutic manner which will enable people. But wishful-thinking alone will not solve much of ethical issues borne through constant power-mongering or people needing to fight each other for more of that elusive and fictional One Pie. Let us strive to reduce any cherished illusions of our history if they do not stand test of common sense for good of all people. It may turn out to be an exploration of sublime inter-connectiveness and I hope I will be fair in seeing positives that Machiavelli and likes of Carlyle can offer real thinkers in present as well.’