By: Monica Gupta,
on 7/6/2016
क्लिक करिए और सुनिए 2 मिनट और 23 सैकिंड का ऑडियो Parenting पर कृपया ध्यान दे – बच्चों की परवरिश कैसे करें थोडी देर पहले एक जानकार के घर से लौटी हूं मन बहुत खराब हो रहा है असल में, जानकार के घर बच्चे और मम्मी मे खूब कहा सुनी हो रही थी जितना मम्मी […]
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By: bookkm,
on 4/28/2015
I rarely - if ever - email authors. Today, I emailed Thanha Lai with a suggestion for a spin-off from her book Listen, Slowly. Before we go any further, I must apologize for not using diacritical marks in this review. Diacritical marks are VERY important in Viet Namese, as Lai's book shows..jpg?picon=1621)
By: DIANE SMITH,
on 2/15/2013
I've tucked away the porcelain creamer, little orange flowers and cascading drapery, replacing the objects with photo references for a project I'm really excited about doing. The inspiration was a photograph of my oldest daughter taken about a year ago at El Capitan State Beach. However, I'm changing the location from a rocky beach to a rocky riverbed with some trees in the background.
By: Charles Hodgson,
on 5/6/2010
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There was a period in my life when I was a consultant. There was an old joke about how if you ask a consultant the time he’ll borrow your watch so he can tell you.
That stings a bit. But the fact is that a consultant who doesn’t listen to their client in order to find out how his (or her) consultantly experience can best be applied isn’t much of a consultant.
To give a good answer about what time it is you need to understand what time the client thinks it is. This means listening to the client. Then when you figure out what to tell the client it’s kind of nice if they listen to you. But as long as they pay you they can listen to you or not, that’s their business.
Etymologically it wasn’t always this way. As we go back into the history of the word client we find that long ago your client had to listen to you. Listening was what made them clients.
As a consultant the word client is synonymous with the word customer. The sense of client as the person hiring a professional to help them out appeared around the time of Shakespeare 400 years ago. This meaning evolved because for almost 200 years before that the professionals being hired were invariably lawyers.
Although we can fire lawyers the fact someone has a lawyer usually means that they are actually in need of that lawyer and as such are pretty likely to listen to their advice.
It’s no surprise that a lawyerly word like client comes from Latin and the sense it had before the lawyers got hold of it was a kind of master/servant relationship with the client being the subordinate, which I’m sure suited the lawyers just fine.
Latin words of course usually originated back in Roman antiquity and in that context a client was a plebeian under the patronage of a patrician. The patrician protected the client but the client was pretty much a slave who had to come at the beck and call of their patrician. This was so literally true that the etymological meaning of client is “one who listens to be called” since cluere meant “to listen.”
By: Molly Blaisdell,
on 11/22/2009
Welcome to day 22 of the Golden Coffee Cup. What a journey we are taking! Oh, I can't wait to hear back from you about your successess!
No clue what a Golden Coffee Cup is? Click here.
Today we have a figuring-it-out high five from Karl Jansky, the father of radio astronomy. 
I think listening is one of the hardest things to do: to listen to characters, to listen to your critiquers, to listen to your editors, to listen to your own heart. I came across this story recently and was deeply inspired by it. This story illustrates the importance of listening.
In 1932 Karl Jansky was investigating the vast amount of static found in transatlantic radio telephone service. In the silence he heard a hiss of unknown origin. This hiss rose and fell once a day. He rotated his antennae in every direction searching for the source of the sound. It wasn't coming from Earth, but from space. He realized the sound was coming from no nearby source like the planets or the sun.
It was coming from the heart of the Milky Way. This discovery was the birth of radio astronomy. It changed the way we view the universe.
So stop and listen today. What do you hear? What does it mean? Will it change everything? I hope so.
That's today's cup of java. Come back tormorrow for another cup of the hot stuff. :)
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. Shel Silverstein
By: Darcy Pattison,
on 6/23/2009
Yesterday, I taught writing to a dozen at-risk teens. We worked on a personal narrative for about 4-5 hours. Now, the kids didn’t want to be there, but had to be. They didn’t want to write, because it’s summer and who wants to do English class in the summer.
For the first fifteen minute writing period, one teen just wrote, “I’m bored, I don’t want to do this,” for the entire time. I gave the teen permission to do this, as long as the pen kept moving over the page. Wrong way to phrase it. Another teen moved his pen, but doodled.
The writing process I did with them was varied, active, loud, unruly, and (at least for me) fun. And the last 20 minute period, when I asked them to take their marked-up, full of revisions drafts and write out a clean copy (except I didn’t care about spelling and punctuation - hey, it wasn’t English class), everyone wrote. Even the doodler and the bored.
After a loud day, I was suddenly quiet and serious as I explained that my passion is to help people write better, but the process wasn’t complete until the circle is closed with a listener. Would anyone want to read aloud? Because I wanted to hear each voice.
I don’t know how many times these teens had been told that someone wanted to listen to their voice. Not many times, I suspect. It was a serious moment, broken quickly by a raucous joke. Yet - maybe it touched them. Only a few were brave enough to read aloud. Later, though, while they were playing cards the last few minutes, I went to each and asked if I could read his/her story. They all said yes.
There were great stories, not-so-great stories, stories which were rendered almost incoherent by so many grammar problems, stories meant to shock, stories meant to reveal, stories meant to hide - but the voices were loud and clear. I am here. I matter. Is anyone listening?
That’s why we write for kids and teens. Because they matter. Because we want to give them voices that can be heard.
Post from: Revision Notes Revise Your Novel! Copyright 2009. Darcy Pattison. All Rights Reserved.
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By: Charles Hodgson,
on 12/4/2008
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The very first reference to that legendary activist Robin Hood appears in 1362 in a work credited to William Langland and known as The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman.
William Langland was a populist sort of guy—which is probably why he mentions Robin Hood. In any case Piers Plowman was popular enough in its time that scholars don’t have to fight for elbow room to examine it today, because lots of copies were made back then so that quite a number still survive.
That was a time before the printing press though, so all of those copies were hand written.
When documents are copied by hand, sometimes there are changes between the original and the copy. This must have happened to such an extent with Piers Plowman that scholars have quite a challenge in trying to figure out which version is the more original.
Of course the reason that Robin Hood and Piers Plowman make it into today’s podcast is that this is also the document that first mentions spinsters, making the word about 650 years old.
Spin is the important element here, since at first spinsters were young women whose main labor was to work at spinning flax or sheep’s-wool into tread or yarn.
Spinster was almost like a professional title similar to baker or tailor.
Married women could certainly be spinsters. As a matter of fact almost all women spun whenever their hands were free of other chores. They’d spin as they gossiped and they’d spin as they walked to some other task.
This was before the industrial revolution and so without all that spinning there would have been no fabric.
Spinning was such an important activity that according to Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable a girl was not thought fit to be a wife until she had spun herself linen sufficient to cover her body, table, and bed.
With this emphasis on maidens learning to spin, by the 1600s women who remained maidens, seemingly perpetually preparing for marriage, gave a new meaning to the word spinster; someone who never married.
By: Paula Becker,
on 11/20/2008
Pretending to listen.
By: Rebecca,
on 9/5/2008
Happy Friday to all, I hope you had a relaxing short week. I’ve been enjoying the end of summer and hoping the lovely weather goes on just a bit longer. Enjoy the procrastination below!
Listen to an interview with Howard Jones author of The Bay of Pigs.
Look at these geeky tattoos.
Is Palin’s daughter the only Presidential pregnancy?
For the love of Build-A-Bear.
A self-promoting shout out for the OUPblog twitter. Follow us!
WSJ.com to relaunch on my birthday! About time.
Don’t follow this recipe!
Our office is in the shadow of the Empire State Building, conversations like this are sadly not that rare.
Great thoughts on branding in an online era.
Careful, chaos may ensue.
By: MJM,
on 8/18/2007
By: Ann Clemmons,
on 6/26/2007
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under two years of age not watch any television, and that older children should watch very little a day. However, according to Frederick Zimmerman, of University of Washington, a study he conducted showed 90 percent of children under the age of two and 40 per cent of babies fewer than 3 months old, watch television regularly! I found this number horrifying! However, Zimmerman, whose research appears in the Archives of Pediatrics, also said, "Parents are getting the message loud and clear from television marketers and videos that this is good for their kids. That it will help their brain development. None of this stuff has ever been proven."
Zimmerman conducted his research via telephone speaking to approximately 1,000 families at random. I am sorry, but I do not understand how anyone can think television is actually good for their children's brains. I mean, I suppose some educational viewing is better than regular television, I would prefer to read to my baby or older child or have them play with developmental toys or games. Although, I think there are many great programs for babies and young children, I can't say I believe they are actually good for their brains, especially not on a regular basis. There are plenty of studies proving how bad television is for older children and teens, how can it possibly be good for babies and younger children?
For example, a second study showed television viewing could cause learning problems down the road for kids that watch too much television when they are young. This study at the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine said that teens who watch hours of television a day are more likely to have learning disabilities.
How do our children learn language and social skills from a television set? These studies produced the same results in all different social and economic backgrounds. Zimmerman also stated, "We don't know from the study whether it is good or bad. What we do know is that it is big." I would have to agree with that statement!
29% of the parents who participated in the study think that baby oriented programs and videos are actually good for their children. Again, how do these programs teach language and social skills would be my question, and isn't it better to moderate how much television they watch?
It seems like everything is better in moderation and maybe parents need to question why they are putting their little babies in front of the tube so frequently. What I found so shocking about this study is the rationalization that television is actually good for babies brains, in addition to the fact that parents include it in their babies regular routine. Scary Stuff Folks-
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great!!! this one are awesome…i love the concept!!
Great illustration and funny take on the topic. Your line work is great.
Oh yes, and especially when you can’t even remember his name.
Haha, love it!
Reminds me of me!
Best Wishes,
Liz
Ironic. It’s usually the female rabbits complaining that the males don’t talk.
I haven’t done Illustration Friday in a long while but I just love this piece and had to respond. So cute and so creative!!! you’re the best.
I dated him years ago!
I like the people rabbits! I think that’s me on the right, although I try really hard to concentrate - I do!
Thanks everybody!
Bill: I have to agree. In this case, I didn’t think it through, worked fast, and just let it happen.
Nice to see you back again, Shawn!
Jazz: Heh!
Jess: Me too. I know you do! : )