One day, I was walking across campus at the secondary school where I taught, when I passed a rather nondescript group of teenage boys. This is something I would generally completely ignore. If they were kids I knew, I’d say hello, of course, but otherwise, I just walked on by. But this time I noticed them. As they passed, I was enveloped in a thick cloud of a sickening odor. … [Read more...]
Apologies
Apologies I’m going to open with a short discussion Ezra and I had recently… we had an incident where an adult’s conduct was less than stellar in front of Ezra. If my children get out of line, I expect them to apologize and make things right. I expect that from adults as well. Kids are more likely than adults to handle that gracefully, in my experience. In this … [Read more...]