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 Stories About: movies AND parenting
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Bongy feet
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David Roberts |
14 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Parenthood confers many blessings, but the requirement that one watch an endless succession of kiddie movies is not among them. This weekend, I found myself sitting on the bean bag with the boys, watching Happy Feet. You'll recall that the movie caused a bit of buzz in green (and anti-green) circles when it came out, thanks to its environmental message. Having seen it, what seems more striking than the message is the spectacular, bongtastic weirdness of it. ***WAR ... |
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| Topics: movies, parenting (all these topics) |
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Children, anxiety, and global warming |
biodiversivist |
06 Nov 2006 |
Gristmill |
| I found this post over on the Climate Ark blog. Hello, My 8-year-old daughter has just come running to me in a flood of tears. Why? Because she thinks the world is going to end sometime soon and it's the fault of me and, to a lesser extent, my generation. That's why. Why does she think that? Because she takes it for gospel that over bearing boffins like yourself know more than ordinary folk like me. Does it make you feel good? Making an eight-year-old girl with a ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, insanity, movies, parenting (all these topics) |
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