Depends on whose end your
considering I suppose. J
Becky Fitzgerald
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“…much of their humor is
scatological. It’s embarrassing and you want to wring their necks,”
Would that be scatological or
Eschatological?
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2006 12:47 PM
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Even though we’ve pretty well
established that the
If you bring this age group into an art
museum without preparation you’re likely to hear: “oooooh you can
see the boobies on that statue” and much, much worse. Years ago I was
making my way to a museum conference room for a meeting and passed several
little boys staring at ancient statuary just in time to hear, “Look at
the d*** on that one!” The problem was that their teacher had allowed the
kids to split up into groups of 3-4 to tour the museum, leaving behavior
management to the security guards. So…the kids were doing a self-guided
tour, looking at the things that interested them! If only the teacher had given
them some preparation and clues to look for in the art it would have been far
different. (A good friend/colleague was with me, and we still use the
boys’ exclamation when we’re privately describing ANYTHING of great
interest.) J
Becky Fitzgerald
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2006 12:18 PM
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I wonder
how many of these parents know their children are listening to 'immorality' in
country and western music, or watching MTV, playing video games? We can go on
and on about the relative 'morality' of different assaults on fifth grade
sensibilities.
Recently
I took my children to the Bodyworlds 3 exhibit at Telus World of Science in
If a 7
year old with challenges can understand this, so can normal 10 year olds.
All this
hoopla serves to do is create shame of the human body, including the bodies of
the children seeing the display.
Darryl