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Safety couldn't be a factor. Could it?52

Halloween Night And The Groper

On a moonlit night, amid smells of rustling autumn leaves and and nieghborhood full of children yelling, "Trick or Treat" safety couldn't be a factor. Or could it?

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Henry Rollins And Me

In 2006, I was diagnosed with cancer in my left breast.  I chose to have a mastectomy instead of a lumpectomy due to the type of cancer and its location in my breast.  I knew if my lymph nodes came back...

2 comments    entertainment henry rollins
November 16, 200154

Playing Away The Terror Of September 11, 2001: One Classroom’s Method Of Healing

After 9/11, the children in our classroom started demonstrating their fears through their play. Read what two teachers collaborated to do to help the six-year-olds work through their fears.

0 comments    education play classroom
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I'm going To Take A Shower, First: Then I'm Going To Bed

A young Army Private, home on leave during the Middle East conflict, makes some decisions that scare his family more than the war.

0 comments    family army alcoholism
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The Visit

What happens when a child has a precognitive vision of her Grandfather's death?

1 comment    family death ghosts
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Mitzi And The Vision - I Could Hear The Tinkling As My 10-Year Old Mind Shattered

A child's first encounter with precognition prepares her for what is to come.

2 comments    family children pets
So, it's turkeys instead of chickens, but it's the actual site of the carnage, right down to the apple tree that Sherri climbed!66

Sherri And The Chicken: Would She Ever Be The Same?

It was chicken butchering time at the Harris house and everyone was expected to help. Would one little girl's experience turn her vegetarian?

2 comments    family blood chickens
I followed them like sheep.65

My Last Gang Fight: Okay, It Was My First One, Too!

What's a mother to do? Who knew that when she came to her son's rescue, she'd be surrounded by 15 gangsters carrying metal pipes and sticks!

0 comments    family teacher martial arts
Look Ma! No Bears!58

Lost Children, Sex Education And Challenging Behavior: The Day We Took 90 Kinders To The Zoo

How does a teacher keep track of children on a field trip to the zoo? What does a teacher say when those children witness bears mating? What technique will work with the one child that ignores teacher directions? Find out on a personal reiteration of this teacher's field trip to the San Diego Zoo.

2 comments    education sex education
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