Monthly Archives: May 2009

Casual Relationship

By sindy | Published: May 25, 2009
While watching The Rules of Attraction, went online to look up the complete details of Victor’s monologue about Europe (read the transcript here, skip to text “Victor:”). It’s great, as is Kip Pardue when he’s delivering it, and was let to the Wikipedia article on the book, which I’ve also read and, like most Bret [...]
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links for 2009-05-15

By sindy | Published: May 15, 2009
Word Spy – parachute kids (tags: education parents)
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Helicopter Parents and Gender-Neutral Housing

By sindy | Published: May 14, 2009
Here’s an unfortunate situation: Karin Morin, a Stanford student’s mother, goes to the helicopter parent extreme, writing a National Review article, complaining about her daughter’s gender neutral housing assignment. Sadly, as her daughter Daisy Morin comments herself in this New York Times blog comment and covered in this Daily article, a family argument has turned [...]
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