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Music is beneficial not only on an individual level. Playing or singing music in a group creates a sense of community and teamwork. Being part of a school choir or band can teach a child listening skills and instill a sense of responsibility to a larger group. Most importantly, music can add stability and comfort to a young person's life. The more precarious a child's home life or external condition, the more important the need for mental rejuvenation at school. (Since when have the three R's rejuvenated...
These days, we demand more from our schools. They now have pressure to produce students capable of competing in the global economy and also compensate for parents who fail to teach their children the right values. Schools are now asked to produce better people for society--not just students who can satisfy academic benchmarks. But these added demands on our educators provide more reason for why music should be part of every school's curriculum...
...always teach The Great Gatsby just after the end of summer, when the Long Island light has lowered to copper streaks, the "inessential houses," as Fitzgerald called them, have been closed and boarded, and Gatsby is dead again. He is dead every autumn, and I take a melancholy consolation speaking of him to my college students after everything he yearned for is irretrievably gone. That, of course, is the heartbreak of the novel--the yearning to be young forever and to redo, remake. And the yearning does not get more manageable simply because one can do nothing about...
...make the gesture for milk, for instance, well before he can say the word, which could save him from having to be thirsty and miserable until Mother figures out what the problem is. One popular program, Sign with Your Baby, uses the basics of American Sign Language to teach babies and parents simple signs, such as milk, more, drink and eat. Another program, Baby Signs, helps parents develop signs based on gestures their babies already make...
...right to teach our children that a bad marriage is better than no marriage? I think not! My children are a product of my marriage as well as my divorce. I have always tried to teach them that my mistakes are not theirs and they should base their decisions on their experiences in life, not mine. My parents should have divorced years ago, and their experience made me realize that I would never stay in any relationship in which I was not happy. I think it is more important to let children know that both parents love them...