Comments on: the kids get all the good stuff http://katerli.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/the-kids-get-all-the-good-stuff/ toe-to-toe with the Penguin Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:28:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: lauren a http://katerli.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/the-kids-get-all-the-good-stuff/#comment-1985 lauren a Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:00:17 +0000 http://katerli.wordpress.com/?p=174#comment-1985 i am procrastinating from my project. you could adopt: that would be none-population-expanding, or you could use the old-school baster method... :) you would be such a good mom! but if you decide not to, you can be my co-mom. happy birthday! i am procrastinating from my project.

you could adopt: that would be none-population-expanding, or you could use the old-school baster method… :)

you would be such a good mom! but if you decide not to, you can be my co-mom.

happy birthday!

]]> By: katerli http://katerli.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/the-kids-get-all-the-good-stuff/#comment-1984 katerli Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:26:46 +0000 http://katerli.wordpress.com/?p=174#comment-1984 i know other people who are having kids, so i feel the likelihood is high. i would like kids but feel sort of a bastard for how much planning has to be involved and how much using of resources and population expanding when i am so naturally capable of NOT having them, that it's extraordinarily unlikely i ever will... scholastic ny headquarters is in downtown manhattan, and architecturally it makes me grin hugely, because it feels like a building-sized version of one of those paper catalogues, but i went in at some point around when i moved here and was disappointed that a lot of the kids books i was liking at that moment were not represented and the selection was actually pretty conservative... but its still that frisson of "ooo - i remember that! that was awesome! i'm glad kids still <em>get</em> that!!" and really nice to see positive parent child interaction, especially on hectic weekday morning train ride! i know other people who are having kids, so i feel the likelihood is high. i would like kids but feel sort of a bastard for how much planning has to be involved and how much using of resources and population expanding when i am so naturally capable of NOT having them, that it’s extraordinarily unlikely i ever will…

scholastic ny headquarters is in downtown manhattan, and architecturally it makes me grin hugely, because it feels like a building-sized version of one of those paper catalogues, but i went in at some point around when i moved here and was disappointed that a lot of the kids books i was liking at that moment were not represented and the selection was actually pretty conservative… but its still that frisson of “ooo – i remember that! that was awesome! i’m glad kids still get that!!”

and really nice to see positive parent child interaction, especially on hectic weekday morning train ride!

]]> By: lauren a http://katerli.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/the-kids-get-all-the-good-stuff/#comment-1982 lauren a Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:35:00 +0000 http://katerli.wordpress.com/?p=174#comment-1982 i loved scholastic! but i also had a moment of yay! reading this because i was lurking near people today at target to listen to the happy and functional mother and teen son and elementary school daughter interactions. i reiterate how i want to live near you when/if i have kid. but i also want other people to have kids? does anyone else want to have kids? i loved scholastic!

but i also had a moment of yay! reading this because i was lurking near people today at target to listen to the happy and functional mother and teen son and elementary school daughter interactions.

i reiterate how i want to live near you when/if i have kid. but i also want other people to have kids? does anyone else want to have kids?

]]> By: Anna http://katerli.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/the-kids-get-all-the-good-stuff/#comment-1981 Anna Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:11:20 +0000 http://katerli.wordpress.com/?p=174#comment-1981 YES! clifford is pretty much the emblem of that era of childhood. i also remember loving the scholastic books. i was always arty, and they had these books where you could trace different faces -- pick your nose, mouth, hair, etc. and all this tracing paper and ou could make good caricatures. i sort of knew i was supposed to just draw things, but these were sooo much more fun. i'm glad the scholastic catalogues still exist -- and it's not just online or something... YES! clifford is pretty much the emblem of that era of childhood.
i also remember loving the scholastic books. i was always arty, and they had these books where you could trace different faces — pick your nose, mouth, hair, etc. and all this tracing paper and ou could make good caricatures. i sort of knew i was supposed to just draw things, but these were sooo much more fun.
i’m glad the scholastic catalogues still exist — and it’s not just online or something…

]]> By: dory http://katerli.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/the-kids-get-all-the-good-stuff/#comment-1978 dory Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:33:19 +0000 http://katerli.wordpress.com/?p=174#comment-1978 I remember the year they stopped...I think it was grade 5, and our teacher was all "it's just a big paperwork headache, with such limited choices, you could all go to the LIBRARY, or a BOOKSTORE and pick WHATEVER YOU WANTED." The scholastic canada hq is on king street, I bike by it sometimes, there's mural of clifford the big red dog that you can see through windows. I remember the year they stopped…I think it was grade 5, and our teacher was all “it’s just a big paperwork headache, with such limited choices, you could all go to the LIBRARY, or a BOOKSTORE and pick WHATEVER YOU WANTED.”

The scholastic canada hq is on king street, I bike by it sometimes, there’s mural of clifford the big red dog that you can see through windows.

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