Grown Ups of the Village: Will You Please Behave? This morning I had to explain to my daughter why she isn’t allowed to take her Nintendo DS to school. I like to lend authority to my assertions, beyond the power-trippin’, blanket statement “Cuz I said so” which doesn’t really impart any commitment to obey when […]
Down with School Projects!
I don’t mind homework. Studying to ensure a lesson is learned, extra practice to make it stick — these are terrific reasons to bring work home from school. But I mean spelling words, vocabulary lists, text books, worksheets… that sort of thing. I’m not talking about assignments that talk about collecting items not already in […]
The customer is (not) always right
How many times have we heard it said, “The customer is always right!”? It seems we accept this as fact and have decided it’s a completely valid way to run a business. Except when the customer isn’t right — which is a lot more often than it used to be, back when the world was […]
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