I don't know how old you are but when I was a kid "How To Eat Fried Worms" was a rite of passage. I was recently looking for a copy for my son and I found out it's banned. Gay porn for kindergarten, fine, wholesome book for young boys, banned.
2 yrs. ago my daughter went to a school board meeting to protest a sexually explicit book that was in the elementary school library. Any K-4 kid could get it. My daughter started reading from the book at the school board meeting during her allotted 3 minutes, but was shut down because of "inappropriate language." Inappropriate for a roomful of adults, but okay to leave on the library shelves, which they did.
How about this: If funds permit, start a neighborhood family reading room. Invite other parents who share your concern. Some spot, even a garage can be the location.
You don't need shelves, just stack milkcrates. Use milkcrates for seats as well. Keep it simple.
Everyone contributes some books, they should be grouped by age and interest, but other than a label inside the book stating what section it came from there would be no tracking. Children would learn what an Honor System is, always worthwhile.
Hours are whatever is convenient, distribute the hours open info as you deem appropriate.
Hit resale shops and buy books by the box. Encourage others to do so. If you find the garage is stuffed, add another family garage.
Thanks! And as for reading, my father started reading the funnies with me each evening from the time I was one, by the time I was three I was reading them to him. I enrolled my daughter in a progressive school, they taught you as fast as you were able to absorb, it was amazing what she was able to accomplish.
Just read a post on NextDoor (after being reinstated; didn’t want to, but hard to keep up with our crime otherwise) that someone took 20 children’s books from her “free library.” Turns out it was a new teacher trying to find books that her kids could read. Everyone forgave her.
Hunt antique stores and used book shops. I find lots of good old children's books there. If you know a title, Amazon usually links to a used copy available somewhere.
Always makes me cringe when I hear them say "reproductive healthcare" as a euphemism for abortion. As if killing an unborn child is healthcare. Or reproductive. Kind of the opposite of both. But, it's also telling in that they know their position is unpopular or they'd call it by its real name.
And then there is the word 'Partner'. Words like Husband and Wife are semi-outlawed (discourage) because they point too much towards sex distinction. Oops! I mean gender distinction!
Their mis-use of language is Word Sorcery ... and the casting of spells to daze the mind. But the good news is that this bit of Black Magic is not working out as well as it used to.
The best thing to do is to never use 'their words'. Never misuse the word 'gender'. Always use husband and wife, not my partner (unless you are a cowboy or cowgirl with a friendly greeting ... Howdy Partner!). And so on.
I am, for example, loathe to use 'vaccine'. I much prefer Death Jab or the like.
I do appreciate the word "partner" when someone literally means "we are living together / de-facto but not legally married", which is more common these days. Or, "we are long-term 'dating' (sleeping together) but haven't decided if we'll move in together yet". But I prefer the word "spouse" (or just husband/wife, if being specific) for someone who is actually married.
Interesting ... and not something a long time Christian person would immediately think of. And to that person the word 'partner' in your usage would be less than half a marriage, and indeed ... a counterfeit of marriage. But then again, one would suppose that this kind of distinction is apt to be and/or would be lost on those who are lost to a practice of contemporary hedonism.
I thought they picked it because nouns in Romance languages, those descended from Latin, are classified in gender as masculine, feminine, or neuter, allowing them to pretend it's a word used in biology to imply more than two biological sexes.
Fla Mom ... this is what I think too. And as a sort of advertising trick as in ... take something real and really suggestive, and draw a thread from that real thing to something else unrelated (like The Product) ... and plant an emotional connection to where it otherwise would not exist.
In reality, gender in contemporary mis-usage is the thread of 0 + 0 = 0 to into the land where nothing has any meaning, including our natural existences.
Think of it all as Word Sorcery and the Casting of Spells.
I read up in Wikipedia on the 1994 invention of "Reproductive Justice"; a conspiracy of Academics and malcontented quasi-science Progressives; but they want consenting, informed individuals (from early childhood on) in charge of every facet of their personal sexual health and function...not society, the State, church, just the medical-science experts to educate and advise (awash in State funding) and the healthy, stable, rational individual
Gender used to be only used in context of which pronoun to use for males (he, him) & females (she,her).
As usual Leftist Libs twist words & use that skill to their advantage.
Abortion became reproductive rights. What’s reproductive about snuffing out a human life?
Same-Sex marriage is another. God instituted “marriage” between a man & a woman.
I’d rather please my God than any man(kind).
Same-sex unions maybe, but not marriage.
Btw, most dictionaries started evolving the definition of marriage years ago easing up to today.
Looking for books for a toddler these days is like navigating a cow pasture.
I don't know how old you are but when I was a kid "How To Eat Fried Worms" was a rite of passage. I was recently looking for a copy for my son and I found out it's banned. Gay porn for kindergarten, fine, wholesome book for young boys, banned.
2 yrs. ago my daughter went to a school board meeting to protest a sexually explicit book that was in the elementary school library. Any K-4 kid could get it. My daughter started reading from the book at the school board meeting during her allotted 3 minutes, but was shut down because of "inappropriate language." Inappropriate for a roomful of adults, but okay to leave on the library shelves, which they did.
How about this: If funds permit, start a neighborhood family reading room. Invite other parents who share your concern. Some spot, even a garage can be the location.
You don't need shelves, just stack milkcrates. Use milkcrates for seats as well. Keep it simple.
Everyone contributes some books, they should be grouped by age and interest, but other than a label inside the book stating what section it came from there would be no tracking. Children would learn what an Honor System is, always worthwhile.
Hours are whatever is convenient, distribute the hours open info as you deem appropriate.
Hit resale shops and buy books by the box. Encourage others to do so. If you find the garage is stuffed, add another family garage.
FIGHT BACK.
Great idea. And read to your own kids. Best investment ever.
Thanks! And as for reading, my father started reading the funnies with me each evening from the time I was one, by the time I was three I was reading them to him. I enrolled my daughter in a progressive school, they taught you as fast as you were able to absorb, it was amazing what she was able to accomplish.
Just read a post on NextDoor (after being reinstated; didn’t want to, but hard to keep up with our crime otherwise) that someone took 20 children’s books from her “free library.” Turns out it was a new teacher trying to find books that her kids could read. Everyone forgave her.
"Took them", as in took them and didn't bring them back? Were they "good" books or "bad" books, sincere questions :)
🤡🌎 now.
I always wondered what would happen if all of “those books” ended up in the garbage can in the library… 🤔
Wow, how did that happen?… 😇😉
Especially easy to do now that many libraries have eliminated overdue fines and replacement fees.
🤔😇
Makes sense to someone, I’m sure.
Everything is opposite...
I remember that book. Lol. Try looking at local antique malls for older books for kids. I have found a few really good classics there
Thanks. I found a copy. 😁
Hunt antique stores and used book shops. I find lots of good old children's books there. If you know a title, Amazon usually links to a used copy available somewhere.
Lots of good books get dumped at thrift stores like Goodwill, too. It's worth checking them out.
Excellent suggestion! Thanks!
You have a way with words and images, Fred!
Always makes me cringe when I hear them say "reproductive healthcare" as a euphemism for abortion. As if killing an unborn child is healthcare. Or reproductive. Kind of the opposite of both. But, it's also telling in that they know their position is unpopular or they'd call it by its real name.
Alfred Kinsey and his cohort came up with the word, "gender." That should give us the best reason not to use it...
I always say gender only applies to language…when I took French in high school, there were two genders, “masculine” and “feminine “. C’est tout!
Perverts. Even word perversion. Figures!
And then there is the word 'Partner'. Words like Husband and Wife are semi-outlawed (discourage) because they point too much towards sex distinction. Oops! I mean gender distinction!
Their mis-use of language is Word Sorcery ... and the casting of spells to daze the mind. But the good news is that this bit of Black Magic is not working out as well as it used to.
The best thing to do is to never use 'their words'. Never misuse the word 'gender'. Always use husband and wife, not my partner (unless you are a cowboy or cowgirl with a friendly greeting ... Howdy Partner!). And so on.
I am, for example, loathe to use 'vaccine'. I much prefer Death Jab or the like.
I do appreciate the word "partner" when someone literally means "we are living together / de-facto but not legally married", which is more common these days. Or, "we are long-term 'dating' (sleeping together) but haven't decided if we'll move in together yet". But I prefer the word "spouse" (or just husband/wife, if being specific) for someone who is actually married.
Interesting ... and not something a long time Christian person would immediately think of. And to that person the word 'partner' in your usage would be less than half a marriage, and indeed ... a counterfeit of marriage. But then again, one would suppose that this kind of distinction is apt to be and/or would be lost on those who are lost to a practice of contemporary hedonism.
I thought they picked it because nouns in Romance languages, those descended from Latin, are classified in gender as masculine, feminine, or neuter, allowing them to pretend it's a word used in biology to imply more than two biological sexes.
Fla Mom ... this is what I think too. And as a sort of advertising trick as in ... take something real and really suggestive, and draw a thread from that real thing to something else unrelated (like The Product) ... and plant an emotional connection to where it otherwise would not exist.
In reality, gender in contemporary mis-usage is the thread of 0 + 0 = 0 to into the land where nothing has any meaning, including our natural existences.
Think of it all as Word Sorcery and the Casting of Spells.
“Reproductive rights” is a twisted notion. To reproduce or not is a right. Not killing lives we reproduce is a responsibility.
I read up in Wikipedia on the 1994 invention of "Reproductive Justice"; a conspiracy of Academics and malcontented quasi-science Progressives; but they want consenting, informed individuals (from early childhood on) in charge of every facet of their personal sexual health and function...not society, the State, church, just the medical-science experts to educate and advise (awash in State funding) and the healthy, stable, rational individual