By: Donna J. Shepherd,
on 6/16/2007
Ouch! Sunburn!, another wonderfully written book by Donna J. Shepherd, is a fun book about getting sunburned and how to avoided getting burned again. The story not only teaches kids what will happen if they get too much sun, but what to put on their burned itchy skin. The book is written in a simple fun rhyme and at the end of the book there are tips on how to keep from getting sunburned when
By: Ysabeau Wilce,
on 6/16/2007
Last week a close member of my family was killed in a car accident in Arizona. This accident was caused when the SUV she was riding in swerved to avoid hitting an object that flew off the back of the pick-up truck driving in front of them, went off the road and rolled.
The driver of the pick-up truck either didn't realize that something had fallen off his truck or he/she didn't care--anyway, he/she didn't even stop.
Like many accidents, this horrible event was ENTIRELY preventable--if the people in the pick-up truck had been more careful securing their cargo, my cousin would be alive today. Unfortunately, the local newspapers didn't report the accident, so the pick-up truck driver probably never even realized what he/she had done--got home, found something missing off the back of the truck and shrugged oh well, I wonder what happened to that?
I beg anyone out there reading this--if you have a truck and you transport stuff in the back please please PLEASE make sure you are well-tied down. It's no joke when something comes off the back of your truck and you--and the car behind you--are going 65 miles an hour. The life you save might not be your own but it is sure as hell just as important.
I know lots of people with trucks, and my family has one, too--we've all driven literally thousands of miles with stuff in the back, and let me tell you, when we tie down, we double and triple check everything to make sure there is no way anything is coming off the back.
I only wish the jerks driving the pickup truck on the Beeline Highway last Saturday afternoon had been so careful. They've probably already forgotten about their weekend trip to Saguaro Lake, but no one in my family or my cousin's family is ever going to forget it.
By: Donna J. Shepherd,
on 4/23/2007
Another collaboration with Kevin! We are working on an eBook for Guardian Angel Publishing called Ouch! Sunburn! The book features my poetry, Kevin's illustrations, and Sun Safety Tips for Kids. Watch for more news soon!
By: Jessamyn West,
on 4/9/2007
I have had to lobby this week to have the IT people that manage the computer filtering at the school I work with to give adults access to MySpace. In fact, I don’t even know if any of the adults that come to computer drop-in time at the hich school ever even try to access MySpace, but I know if they try, they can’t.
The larger problem is that the filtering software they use to keep kids off of a ton of different sites during the school day (Surf Control, if it matters) behaves … erratically. I have computer logins specifically for my adult students and every now and again I go to help them do something and find that Google is blocked. Not Gmail, just plain old Google.com. So I call the IT people and ask them to fix it and they usually do. However, since I actually need to be able to access sites like Google during my evening classes, we’ve reached a compromise where they turn the filter off between 3 (after school) and 8 pm. However, they also track all the traffic that goes through the network during this time. They noticed, they said, that people were accessing MySpace. The implication was that 1) MySpace is against the rules and 2) MySpace has no value whatsoever and 3) even adults don’t have the right to use the computer networks to access social software sites.
So, I went to work and explained that the adults who come to drop-in time shoudl pretty much have the right to look at whatever they want, that MySpace is fine — I hadn’t been looking at MySpace but I had a page on MySpace that I might want to look at — and that the reports of MySpace’s dangers have bee greatly overrated. Read the article. Fewer teens are receiving unwanted online solicitations than they were in 1999. Despite this, we get laws like DOPA. That’s lousy.
dopa, myspace, safety, teens
By: MartinDavies,
on 3/27/2007
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By: [email protected] (Mark Blevis and Andrea ,
on 11/28/2006
Author: Margaret Shannon
Illustrator: Margaret Shannon
Published: 2006 Houghton Mifflin Canda Ltd
ISBN: 0618737448 Chapters.ca Amazon.com
Brimming with mystique and echoes of Sendak, this fresh fairy tale subtly, yet powerfully, casts light on the costs of safety and the value of freedom. Our whole family is entranced by this fabulous book.
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Ouch! As I sit here with my crispy fried shoulders....I am thinking maybe this is a book I should have in my library!
Oh, Sheri! I'm sorry you're hurting. I'm hoping to save some shoulders with this little book. :)