The Wakefield study has been ruled a fraud

[conuly]

Can't you just hear the amazement and surprise as I type?

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[conuly]

I have a similar rant about the teaching of history, of course. In my less lucid moments I want to become a science (or history) teacher just to fix it, but I'm sure I'd be burned out by the (idiotic) system within days, if not minutes. Whose bright idea was it to teach these things completely backwards like that?

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but who says you can only teach within the (idiotic) system? I started in the system, but then jumped ship when I had my own child and went to nannying instead, where I could teach my own way.

Childrens' play is a cultural artifact in many ways - the games and songs and skills that get passed down from older to younger children; stuff one can make out of bits-and-bobs, pranks to play, things to do - like Roxaboxen (http://www.amazon.com/Roxaboxen-Alice-Mclerran/dp/0688075924), right? But these days families are smaller, extended families don't stay together so much, and unrelated children of different ages don't mingle in free-range child-directed interaction any more, so the child-culture has become impoverished.