Supermarket: Sadness.

On 2011-01-26, Dave Smith wrote:


Also, the pictures can purposely lure the child into reading the
accompanying text, thereby encouraging reading. What does that
picture mean? What is going on in that picture? A picture may be
worth a thousand words, but some pictures require additional words.

Also, pictures aid in imagining. A child does not have enough life
experience to imagine all that words can convey. Word and pictures
together are very powerful in providing the child with these new
vistas.

I remember, as a kid, watching early Disneyland TV programs trying to
convey rather complex scientific concepts. One, Newton's third law of
motion is: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Kinda deep for a 7-8 yr old kid and not easily deciphered from text.
A simple cartoon solved it. It showed a cartoon child standing in a
little red wagon. The child threw a ball, the wagon moved in the
opposite direction and kid fell out of the wagon. Brilliant! I got
that concept instantly, having once done the exact same thing and
barked my shins.

Sorry, but kids need pictures. Heck, I know a lot of adults that
can't live without them. Facebook is full of them! lol....

nb
 
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:59:54 -0500, Dave Smith
wrote:


Probably because children that age are hard on books and they need to
be replaced more often. It's not a hard concept.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
sf wrote in news:dp06k61m420qnja2869ktv66p7tfsvb5o5@
4ax.com:


There is also the fact that novelty stimulates their interest in reading
books. If we are going to purposefully limit their choices, perhaps we
should also restrict them to one meal...bread and jam... And then as
people get older, we could reduce their choices as well, only one book,
only one meal. Perhaps we could extend human rights only to children above
the age of 7 or why not 21...and remove them at 65...

Luckily, and despite the will of the current government (in Canada), we do
not yet live in a fascist state.

--

On the first day God created the sun - so the Devil countered
and created sunburn. On the second day God created sex. In
response the Devil created marriage. On the third day God created
an economist. This was a tough one for the Devil, but in the end
and after a lot of thought he created a second economist!

http://www.blabbinit.com/content/god-created-economist
 
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:30:57 -0800 (PST), spamtrap1888
arranged random neurons and said:



I also worked at a military commissary as a teenager bagging
groceries. We were stationed in the UK (US Air Force) and dependent
kids weren't allowed to have jobs off base. A lot of the guys were
able to get hired on at the enlisted and officers' clubs as busboys or
pin setters at the bowling alley, etc., but this was the 60s and for
girls, it was bagging at the commissary or babysitting for 35? an
hour. I could bag (and carry out) a few orders an hour, which beat
babysitting all to hell. I also learned how to snap a paper bag with
the flick of a wrist to pop it open - a skill I find sadly uncalled
for in today's job market :) As for not knowing anyone who ever tipped
a bagPERSON , it was common until around 1975 - 80, thereabouts.
Usually 25? per bag if you took the bags to the car. Probably vanished
contemporaneously with having pump jockeys at service stations (New
Jersey notwithstanding).

My father would love to have found the secret code that would have
gotten him a cheap home loan. His "free" college education was at West
Point, for which he indentured himself for a minimum of 4 years more
(and wound up serving 34) and the "lifelong medical treatment" has
been scaled back to the point that most military retirees I know have
alternative/supplementary health insurance.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

"If the soup had been as warm as the wine,
if the wine had been as old as the turkey,
and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
it would have been a swell dinner." Duncan Hines


To reply, remove "spambot" and replace it with "cox"
 
On 28/01/2011 12:56 PM, sf wrote:



Probably?????/ I doubt it. My complaint was about the number of new
books in the childrens section, new titles, not replacements.
 
"Nancy Young" wrote in message
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My library has a link to see the latest arrivals in various categories.
There's a new Grisham novel, The Confession with 540 copies in the system.
At that, all are checked out and 147 holds are on it.

The library got to be so much more useful with the web interface to the
catalog and personal account.



Brian
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Day 720 of the "no grouchy usenet posts" project
Current music playing: None.
 
Dave Smith wrote:


You spend a lot of time in that section? I couldn't tell you what books
they had in there or if there were new ones all the time.

nancy
 
"ravenlynne" wrote



When Charlotte was 1 or so, she started getting a short story. It was more
just a little 2-3 min 'fun time'. Don might bring in a fishing mazazine and
point at pictures and sound excited. As she got older, pictures she could
relate came in and stories developed around them. She loved reading by age
6 but she also got 'stories read to her' that we past her level of reading
but not understanding.

In Sasebo Japan, the base library (only place to get books in english for
her age) was stocked with your usual 'donations'. Hate to tell you but it's
like close to 80% religious based stuff. Bunches of religious organizations
ship those free and there isn't that much money so if you want to read a 50
different picture books about Jesus for the next 2 months you are good to go
there. The other 20% were in high demand and consisted of some 500 books
for a community of 5,000 families with kids.

Like many others, we took to just telling stories. We developed a series of
'Pikachu, Charlotte the eagle' and the knights of the round table'. We even
used Anime books with pictures to develop the stories about.

The key is exposure to books and stories and the love of them. Once
Charlotte could read, she developed her own library starting with Pokemon
books and moving on. She's off the scale on HS english standard tests and
has been since 8th grade.

The downside? She's JUST like me! Grabs a book and takes over the tub for
HOURS!
Carol
 
On 2011-01-29, Dan Abel wrote:

I find it hilarious ppl still apply the W word (welfare) as a negative
adjective on the less fortunate, as if poor ppl receiving welfare is even
remotely as egregious as multi-billion dollar corporations standing in
the same hand-out line.

I have a pre-paid cell phone for emergencies. Cost me about $100 yr.
For all the use I give it, it's piling up time and I run the risk of
losing it from non-use, an annoying double penalty. I hate cell
phones.

nb
 
On 29 Jan 2011 14:05:55 GMT, notbob wrote:


If it is a tracfone you can change and only pay $6.47 per month to
keep it going without adding time.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)
 
On 2011-01-29, The Cook wrote:


Sure. An extra $77.64 per year to save what I've already payed for.
Howzabout you send me your phone number and I'll call you up on my
3hr-accumulated-time cell phone and we can discuss, at length, what a
moron you are.

nb
 
David Harmon wrote:




T-mobile allows you to maintain a prepaid phone for $10/year.
This has been true for at least the last 4 to 5 years and
there is no sign of it changing.

Steve
 
In article , [email protected] says...

There's a catch. To maintain a prepaid phone for $10 a year you have to
be a "Gold Rewards" customer, and to become a "Gold Rewards" customer
you have to activate 100 minutes in refills. Until you have done that
the $10 refill is only good for 90 days.
 
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