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The pleasure of writing for growth and fun

  • April Astronomy

    When you hold an infant or toddler in your arms at night, chances are they can point to the moon. Did you know that you might be nurturing a future astronomer? This is how education begins in early childhood. A shared experience, like reading Goodnight, Moon while cuddling, makes children feel safe, loved and nurtured. They Continue reading

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  • On Globes: Get The Whole World in Their Hands

    When held in the hands of a student, globes are terrific teaching tools. That’s because globes are meant to be touched, turned, examined, read, and best of all, played with. If you gave a student a globe to hold for fifteen minutes and asked him to write a list of ten new things he learned Continue reading

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  • Are You a Feminist?

    For some people the word “feminist” is a loaded one, filled with images of bra burners, shrill voices, strident slogans, and the phrase “women’s lib.” Bra burning myth aside, a feminist is simply a person who believes in equality between men and women. It’s taken over two hundred thirty years for the 51% majority to Continue reading

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  • Bicycle Emancipation

    “I think bicycling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world…Women feel freedom and self-reliance…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.” Susan B. Anthony spoke these words to famed journalist Nellie Bly in 1896.  She added she was delighted whenever she saw women bicycling. More than horses ever could, bicycles gave women the Continue reading

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  • Women at 3%? Amelia Boynton Robinson

    Amelia Boynton Robinson did not make it into Time’s 2013 list of the most significant people in history. You saw an image of Amelia Boynton Robinson, aged 103, in the recent coverage of the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march in Selma, Alabama. Now using a wheelchair, she wore blue and held President Obama’s left hand: The photo Continue reading