Building blocks are going extinct, according to to Bobbi Conner, a South Carolina mother of three grown children and host of The Parent’s Journal, a weekly program on National Public Radio. Those emblems of childhood. They spur curiosity and imagination: all that is good and inspiring in childhood.
When it comes to children and [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Has it Come to This?
Posted in Links, Save the Building Blocks! on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Where Art Thou, O Hurricane?
Posted in Hurricanes! on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I will start off saying that I am pleading agnosticism: I have no idea if global-warming is occurring or not; if it is caused by humans or not. Whatever the case, the global-warming dispute has been used by many people and organizations wrongly. Many causes and studies have been hijacked because of the contention. One [...]
Meet Two “Tragedies”
Posted in Brazen New World, News Story on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Chase and Abigail, respectively.
Chase and Abigail both have been diagnosed with Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome. According to the attorney in the previous post, both Chase and Abigail are tragedies, and were “so preventable”. Chase and Abigail were both diagnosed after their births; Chase at two months, and Abigail after a few days. Chase has a more subtle [...]
A Real Tradgedy
Posted in Brazen New World, Links, News Story on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
News story courtesy of the Associated Press:
TAMPA, Fla. – In what is being called a “wrongful birth” case, a jury awarded more than $21 million to a couple who claimed a doctor misdiagnosed a severe birth defect in their son, leading them to have a second child with similar problems.
“Wrongful birth”? [...]
