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• Strollerderby Playdate: THEBLOG WEEMADE

  This week we're playing with THEBLOG WEEMADE. The concept is a little different from the mommy/daddy blogging that you usually see. The site's founder, Brian, stumbled onto "a box full of his old schoolwork and drawings that his parents had kept over the years," and decided to make a website where kids could contribute their creations. More about THEBLOG WEEMADE after the jump. Read More... Posted Apr 03 2008, 09:00 AM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: blogs, art, strollerderby playdate, poetry, diarrhea, terrorism, theblog weemade, poem

• Kids TV Haiku

  Toddler decides that 5:30am is the time to wake up. The mind wanders. And this is the result: Bob The Builder Bob and Wendy have Unrequited love which they Express through machines More after the jump...    Read More... Posted Mar 18 2008, 02:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: television, barney, disney, sesame street, elmo, baby einstein, ernie, thomas the tank engine, poetry, Bob the Builder, silly, foolishness, yu gi oh, saturday morning cartoons, little einsteins, kids tv, haiku, bert

• Barbie Has a Dark Side

  My biggest problem with Barbie, aside from her bizarre leg length and waist-to-hip ratio is that she's so damn hopeful. Driving around in her pink car, dressing in ballgowns and bitty high heels that stick like burrs to the carpet until they embed themselves in the soles of your feet--she seems to think life is all parties and dates and good times. Where's the Barbie for the girls who know our existence is pain, who read Wuthering Heights, and who only like singers that wail in a monotone?   Well, we finally have the Barbie...   Read More... Posted Feb 09 2008, 10:33 AM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: toys, barbie, video, girls, comedy, body image, jezebel, poetry, goth, funy or die

• What Your Child Won't Learn While "No Child Left Behind" is Law

  Poetry for one.  Jonathan Kozol, author of many award-winning books about the shabby state of public education and access to health care among poor and minority communities, is interviewed by Salon about his current book "Letters to a Young Teacher."  In it, he discusses the vast shortcomings of "No Child Left Behind" which range from squelching childhood imagination to killing teacher inspiration.  For the uninitiated, NCLB is the brainchild of the Bush Administration and became law in 2001. The problems with the law are legendary and well-documented, the worst of which is taking money away from "under-performing" schools (because taking money away from schools will increase accountability and performance).  Kozol's description of the state of American education (the tests are ruining everything!) is worthy of a standing ovation. Read More... Posted Aug 31 2007, 04:35 PM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: no child left behind, rilke, jonathan kozol, poetry