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I will make recommendations from time to time on this page.
The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids - I read this book this summer (it was suggested reading for the parents at our school). It was written by Madeline Levine, a psychologist in Marin who sees an endless line of unhappy teenagers, and she suggests that we need to let our kids have time for thoughtfulness, to think, to be needed. Parent over involvement with their children's lives is actually counterproductive. They need to get to know their innerselves - figure out what they really think, not what their parents think or what their friends think, but what they really think. It is a thoughtful book, and is especially applicable to the children in our geographic region. Note: Madeline Levine will be speaking at Woodside High School on October 17th, 2007 for the Common Ground Speaker Series. Water-Park Hotels
We discovered the Great Wolf Lodge next to King's Island in Cincinnati, Ohio. Finding this hotel was purely accidental
since we were just trying to stay somewhere near King's Island so we would be there the next morning. It looks like a
huge cabin in Tahoe. They give you, and anyone staying in the room with you, a wrist band (through which you can also charge
things to your room) that is good for 24 hours (or so) anywhere in the water-park. The water-park section was new as of December
and is a whopping 37,000 square feet. Tons of slides, an area for young children, a big bucket (think as big as your car)
fills up and empties over all of the climbing equipment, and a wave machine you can try surfing on, and many different water
slides to try, some of them as high as three stories, and many other water features. I think we were there until it closed
at 10 pm, which meant no Harry Potter reading that night; it was THAT good!.
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