Monday.

[azurelunatic]

Montessori method linked to kids doing better, at least early on, and not hindering later. Um, I could have probably told you so. But that's anecdotal.

Social meme I think is generally helpful: on the sort of post where you wind up not knowing what to say, but know that you should acknowledge that you are present and have been listening, commenting to acknowledge that you have read the post. Some people (who will generally tell you so!) react very poorly to 'nethugs.

An idea for the burning question of "How should sponsored communities ethically promote themselves on LJ?" could be a sponsored_promo community, in the style of community_promo. They're clearly not regular communities, quite, and it would not be fitting to clutter up an area that was built for regular communities only. (Or, hell, direct them to shameless_plugs!)

trystan_laryssa came over last night, and we had a giggly good time. More on that later. Then Snarky Lady misdialed at about 6 in the morning.

Another volunteer talks about why she volunteers for LJ.

I need to do some poking at my style, because I have found that when I screen a comment, there is no link/text to unscreen it. I fear it's the same with freezing. I of course could flail about and get the unscreen URL and paste in the correct comment ID, but that's cracktastic and I don't want to do it.

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[violator-rose.livejournal.com]

Sammie's in a Montessorri school, has been since just before her second birthday. I don't know many other four-year-olds who use words such as "expert" and "three-dimensional" regularly and correctly. I'm completely sold on sending any future children of my own to such a school.

[azurelunatic]

I was upset when Mama's kindergarten and the subsequent elementary school experience was not up to the educational standards that I had become accustomed to, and the disparity did lead to academic apathy on my part.

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

Thats very similar to what my brother went though. He went though preschool, and was more than ready for Kindergarten but his birthday was past the cutoff date and they wouldn't let him. So Mom put him though preschool again and he got the mindset of "What the hell? Again? This is for the birds." and gave up on school at the age of 5. And he never really got back into it again either...till it was "Hey, if you want the part time job in the machinist shop in down, you have to maintain a B average." when he was in High School. All of a sudden he was pulling B's easily and having his afternoons to do what he loved..working with his hands.