My whole childhood was on Sesame Street. I got to watch the very first episode when I was about 5, and was hooked until The Electric Company came along. Indeed, all the feels…
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/science/siberian-tigers-russia.html
120 Miles of Russian Forest Couldn’t Keep These Two Tigers Apart
Boris and Svetlaya were raised together as orphaned cubs, and then reintroduced to the wild separately. But Boris went on a trek that surprised the researchers who were monitoring him.
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Dame Judi plants individual trees in memory of friends who have died and, on the day of Dame Maggie’s funeral, her gardener found the sapling planted for her fellow acting dame had borne fruit.
I recently heard her talking about her love of trees here:
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Speaking of… from a local ATL woodworking shop…
https://www.highlandwoodworking.com/woodnews/wn209.html
which links to this…
https://www.highlandwoodworking.com/woodnews/wn201.html
Here he is, buying something from the shop…
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Um…I’ve not been here for some time now…and I see that ^, before I even saw what I’m going to post!
Yes, it is so very important for kids to know that parents are fallible. I never could see trying to reach that SuperMom/Dad image, cos kids will be awfully disappointed and confused when they learn that Mommy really can’t make the traffic lights change from red to green and that Daddy cannot revive a dead goldfish.
By being the best human a person can be while acknowledging their flaws is, I think, a great way to teach by example. I mean, for the eleventy-bazillionth time in huma history, we’ve know that kids imitate what they see others do, especially adults.
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One more reason for why I want to go to Germany.
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