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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Celebrate Halloween with your kids and Charlie Brown with It's The Great Pumpkin for iPhone and iPad

It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a children's book for the iPhone and iPad based off the the classic Halloween Charlie Brown story. In the book, Linus and Sally wait for the Great Pumpkin, a fantasy similar to Santa Claus that Linus believes in, while Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang to trick-or-treating and attend Violet's Halloween party. In addition to the story, The Great Pumpkin also lets you create an avatar that looks like a Peanuts character, dress him/her up in a costume, carve pumpkins, and more.

The book included in the Great Pumpkin has a great design and has the look and feel of an actual book. For each scene, there may be several sections of text to read and instead of showing all the text on the book at once, the text is displayed at the bottom of the screen and you can turn pages of text without turning the entire page. The original voice of Charlie Brown, Peter Robbins, narrates the story as you read along.

Each page in the book has great illustrations that can be mildly interacted with. Most things you touch will wiggle and many of the characters will repeat their lines from from the story. If you tap falling leaves, they will grow in size and move to the "front" of the book. Sometimes there are other interactions available, like playing piano with Schroeder or bobbing for apples.

In addition to the story, It's The Great Pumpkin also lets your child create a custom avatar that looks like a Peanuts character. You can choose between different skin colors, hairstyles, head shapes, clothing, and more. All of the Halloween costumes must be purchased with coins or candy. You can buy coins as in-app purchases and candy is earned by completing achievements. For example, when I tapped on enough leaves in the story, I earned 6000 pieces of candy.

There is also a section of The Great Pumpkin that lets you carve your own pumpkin. You child will be really excited when s/he sees their personal pumpkin appear in story mode.

The good

Choose from over 1 billion creative avatar and costume combinations to create your own Peanuts character
Go trick-or-treating with Charlie Brown and the gang
Carve your own pumpkin, bob for apples and play Schroeder?s piano
Touch and drag objects to make them ?spring? to life or tilt to watch them slide and move
Objects magically pop out of the page to delight little and big kids
Jump to any page in the book with the handy table of contents bookmark
Educational features such as word and note highlighting to help improve reading and musical skills
Hear individual words spoken with the tap of a finger
Original dialog from the 1966 animated classic
Captivating narration by Peter Robbins, the original voice of Charlie Brown
Charming soundtrack featuring music and sound effects from the original holiday special
Earn candy to buy costumes by complete achievements
Universal for iPhone and iPad

The bad

Page turning sometimes isn't responsive

The bottom line

It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a great childrens book to read with your kids this Halloween. It's fun, interactive, educational, and funny. The bonus of being able to create an avatar and carve a pumpkin makes the app more than just a book and is sure to provide your kids with a lot of Halloween fun.

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Shorten the 500 Years | Develle Dish | Develle Dish

Over the last couple of days I?ve been absolutely terrified. I?ve actually been kind of overwhelmed with worry. I?m not talking about anything ghoulish or ghostly. Halloween, like all other holidays, just makes me reach annoying levels of excited and plan over-aggressive theme parties (I spent all of last night making candy corn jello shots, so if this is incoherent, that?s why). No, my fear is more true-to-life. My fear is 500 years.

In 2010, women did not gain seats in Congress for the first time since 1979. Currently, 51% of the United States population is women. Nevertheless, women make up only 17% of Congress. The United States is currently ranked 80^th in the world in women?s representation in government. We are behind China, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sudan. At the rate that women are making gains in Congress, we will not reach representative equality in government for 500 years.

500 years?! My initial response is ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! My secondary response is WHY?!

The 19^th amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920 (although the last state to ratify the amendment, Mississippi, did not ratify the amendment until 1984, women?s voting rights were recognized nationally after August 18^th, 1920). That means that we have been voting for 92 years. So why haven?t we achieved gender equality in government yet? And why might it take so long?

One of the problems, as presented in the film MissRepresentation, is that female children are given messages from a very young age that their place is not in government. Ruling, leading, and otherwise engaging in politics is a man?s job. Even when women reach high-status positions in government, they cannot escape that sentiment. They are still judged for their appearance more than their policies (think Hilary being chastised for aging or Palin being interrogated about plastic surgery). People still seem to consider government a boy?s club with a strict door policy: No girls allowed. Nothing makes this clearer as when people ask questions like ?What would the downside be to a woman president?? (a ridiculous question in and of itself, as if women are not as diverse a group and as functional in government as men) and commentators respond ?PMS.? I repeat: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.

The lack of women candidates is not the only problem. Women also fail to unite behind women candidates. Women did not unite behind Hilary in the same way that the Black community united behind Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential primary (and I know this from a personal level, living in a house with four females, two pro-Hilary and two, including myself, prObama).

Yet this is understandable. Women are a diverse group with many interests, and it could never be said that any woman could represent all women. We disagree on economics, foreign policy, and pretty much anything else. Why should a person?s womanhood be more important than their views?

Typically, I would be quick to say that it shouldn?t be. I do not think that gender is in any way the most important quality of a candidate. But this election has terrified me for my future and for how anti-woman politics is becoming. Congressmen like Akin and Mourdock attempt to tell women that rape can?t result in pregnancy, and if it does, then you should accept that situation (which, let me reiterate, is your rape and subsequent pregnancy) as a gift from God. Mitt Romney?s statements imply that he promises to appoint as many women in government as is politically correct, and that he will attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade and Obamacare, despite the hugely detrimental effects these actions would have not only on the United States political culture, but on women?s access to safe contraception. And, to top it all off, when asked if he would have signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act (which helps ensure equal pay for equal work), Romney did not answer.

I think that the reason that women have not achieved parity in government, the reason we keep electing candidates who say abhorrent things about contraception and rape and women?s issues is because women have yet to put their rights first on the ballot. We have become accustomed to the political culture as is ? where our reproductive and other rights are thought of as fodder for public debate and inequality is an unchangeable status quo. Yet with the current political climate towards women, we cannot allow this trend to continue. Given the outcome of this election, things could get a whole lot better for women, or they could get a whole lot worse. As America?s biggest electorate, it is up to us to decide.

There has never been so much at stake for women in an election in our lifetimes. When casting our ballots, we need to be sure of what future we are creating for ourselves, and it is right to be selfish. We deserve the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities afforded to men, and we need to elect candidates who not only believe this, but who take action towards equality. It is on that impetus that I urge you to vote pro-women in 2012, 2014, 2016, and every election to come, so that 500 years doesn?t become our reality.

Lillie Reed is a Trinity junior, and she is going to vote for whoever does the most to ensure equal rights for everybody. And that?s that.

Source: http://dukegroups.duke.edu/develledish/2012/shorten-the-500-years/

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

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Panic Buying Grips the East Coast: Mad Rush For Supplies Ahead ...

Mac Slavo, Contributing Writer | White Owl Conspiracy

While many people are still trying to make up their minds about the potential severity of the storm threatening the U.S. northeast, it?s not stopping millions of concerned residents from racing to to grocery stores, gas stations and hardware depots in droves.

If you?ve ever wanted to know what it looks like when the 99% of Americans who have failed to prepare for a disaster wake up and realize they are facing a major crisis take a look at what?s happening on the east coast ahead of Hurricane Sandy.

Good luck buying lanterns, generators, propane, or ? if you are really unprepared ? rain boots and batteries in areas in the path of Hurricane Sandy as it bears down on the U.S. East Coast.
The approach of the gigantic storm, which is expected to come ashore on Monday night set off a weekend scramble for supplies from Virginia to New England, causing long lines at gas stations, bare shelves at hardware and home-supply shops, and a run on bread, bottled water and canned foods.
?It?s been crazy. We?re the only one open who still has gas,? said Karen Tripodi, a customer service representative at Cumberland Farms, a gas station and market in Newington, Connecticut.
?They?re coming in for propane, ice, water, milk and cigarettes.?
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In Hartford Connecticut on Saturday, from the shoreline to well inland, residents and business owners scrambled to get ready for Sandy.
Preparations for the storm took place all over the state, as banks, pharmacies, home improvement centers, electronics stores, pet shops and supermarkets opened Saturday to lines of customers stocking up.
Early birds got D batteries, flashlights, propane refills, bottled water and other sought-after storm supplies. Those arriving later had to deal with bigger crowds, dwindling supplies and, in some cases, empty shelves.

Meteorologists are warning residents across over 600 miles of coastline from Wilmington, Delaware to Bangor, Maine that they need to brace for widespread power outages, sustained high winds, Appalachian snows, deadly storm surges for low lying, massive beach erosion, and flooding in what is being referred to by the NOAA as an ?historic storm.?
Millions of Americans within the path of the storm, who waited too long to take it seriously, are now scrambling to acquire the most basic necessities ahead of Sandy?s expected landfall sometime early Tuesday morning:

Richmond, VA:
Folks across Central Virginia, the Northern Neck and much of the East Coast started stocking up at the grocery store as forecasters warned of the looming ?Frankenstorm.?
?It is a little surprising. I didn?t think it would come that close to the coast,? Connie Davidson told CBS 6 News? Sandra Jones.
Davidson was getting a jump on Hurricane Sandy and stocking up on basics, including water and batteries.
She?s was just one of numerous customers Friday at Pleasants Hardware.
?I got an oil lamp, got a portable castle iron. I got a portable heater,? Carl Shiles said. ?It?s going to be getting cool next week ? and if we lose power, I have a 92-year-old mother-in-law.?
?During the storm, we figure we?ll have gas. So, we?re going to get a lot of things that we can to just pop in the oven and be done with it,? he said.
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Preparations ranged from mandatory evacuations ordered by Gov. Christie for portions of the Jersey Shore to residents preparing for long power outages by cleaning shelves of water, batteries and bread. New Jersey?s utility companies also were preparing for a massive number of power outages.
People turned to social media to report bare shelves in grocery stores and the early effects of the storm in their communities, including strong winds and even flooding in some Shore towns.
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Brooklyn:
Items such as flashlights, D batteries and bottled water have already run low in many locations, as have bread and nonperishable food items. Other items that may run low include tarps and pumps.
Grocery store lines in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and undoubtedly throughout the city were stretching through the aisles this evening. According to ABC News, one Trader Joe?s line just to enter the store wrapped around the block.
Also, FreshDirect has cancelled deliveries tonight, causing more people to head to actual grocery stores than usual.
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Montgomery, Pennsylvania:
Throughout the area, grocery stores and gas stations were crowded Sunday as residents stocked up on necessities.
The lines at the pumps at Sunoco on Valley Forge Road at Whites Road were three or four cars deep late Sunday morning, and the cars trying to get in and out were causing jams in the parking lot and on Valley Forge.
Denise Bohne-Schmidt, a nine-year employee of the Sunoco, said the gas station ran out of regular gasoline Friday, Saturday and Sunday. When it runs out, a truck comes to the station to replenish the supply, but that sometimes takes hours.
She said she?s never seen the gas station so busy, not even before a snowstorm.
?People are complaining, screaming, yelling, they?re yelling at me and there have been fights between customers ? it?s been a mess.?
At Weis Market on Valley Forge Road in Lansdale, manager Mike Ryan said that sales are up 29 percent since Friday, with most people buying cases of bottled water and bread. He had three extra deliveries, but the bread supply was almost depleted and bottled water was dwindling.
?People who have well water are nervous, because if the power goes out, they won?t have water,? he said.
Arlene Widman of Lansdale had several cases of bottled water in her cart for herself and her two adult daughters.
?We don?t know how had it?s going to be. That?s the issue,? she said. ?From what they?re saying it?s going to be a doozy.?

For those on the east coast, we wish you the best as the brunt of the storm passes over the next 72 hours. Many of our readers have likely prepared for the worst and have critical supplies like food, potable water, gas, batteries, off-grid cooking supplies and generators on hand.

For those still lacking supplies, we?d strongly recommend stocking up on as many snow hurricane preparedness items as you can within the next 12 hours if supplies are still available in your area and

With the potential for widespread power outages and flooding, there is a strong possibility that many areas may experience supply problems in coming days and weeks, especially if this storm damages critical utility infrastructure.

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Mac would be considered by some to be a doom and gloomer, though he believes reality is reality, and he tries to assign no positive or negative personal perceptions to any particular event. Mac provides personal commentary and a spin on news and current events. Mac Slavo writes and edits the website: SHTFPlan.com

Source: http://www.whiteowlconspiracy.com/2012/10/panic-buying-grips-east-coast-mad-rush.html

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cooking up a storm ? The Just In Case Book Blog

What is there about an impending storm that makes me want to cook? I just found Pintrest and I was up before dawn looking for recipes that are adaptable to storm cooking. I was particularly interested in crock pot cooking. That may seem silly, You do, after all, need electricity to use a crock pot. But I have found that a cast iron dutch oven can double as a crock pot, no problem. I am making a dutch oven chicken this afternoon. My plan, as I fear we may lose power before we eat, is to get the dutch oven hot, sear the chicken on both sides, reduce the heat to low on my gas stove, cover the chicken with a mixture of Italian dressing and brown sugar and let it simmer. If the power does go out, my stove still works and the chicken will continue to cook. I will serve this with brown rice and kale. I found a recipe for baked apples on Pintrest that calls for cooking in a crock pot. I?ll adapt those to a cast iron skillet version with the apples chopped rather than whole.

Sometimes we get bogged down with recipes. I suppose there are some fussy things that require exact measurements and cooking techniques but most plain cooking is flexible. My mother rarely followed a recipe (bad example-my mother was a dreadful cook)-let?s say my mother-in-law rarely followed a recipe and her food was always delicious. Now is the time to experiment. Everybody needs their own cookbook with their own recipes adapted for available ingredients and cooking options. As the climate becomes more unstable we may all face periods of no electricity or disruptions in food supplies. You need to know how to cook with the food you have stored or preserved. I?ll bet there are families out there right now looking at #10 cans of dehydrated corn and wondering what the heck to do with it. I went through Pintrest looking for recipes I can adapt for use with stored food. Alright. I also found recipes for some decadent drinks and fancy desserts but for the most part I was looking for plain food. Isn?t today the perfect day to spend with your favorite cookbooks or recipe sites and a notebook?

I did want to put a plug in for Sharon Astyk?s new book, Making Home. She sent me a copy a few days ago and it?s a gem. I don?t say this lightly. There are a lot of books out there on adapting to an energy constrained fututure and this is about the best. It?s is quintessential Sharon, elegant and literate, down-home and wise. You won?t get advice on choosing solar panels but you will find a direction for making your house home in good times and bad. I plan to order copies for each of my children and donating one to our Sustainability Library.

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Migraine in children may affect school performance

ScienceDaily (Oct. 29, 2012) ? Children with migraine are more likely to have below average school performance than kids who do not have headaches, according to new research published in the October 30, 2012, print issue of Neurology?, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

The study of 5,671 Brazilian children ages 5 to 12 found that those with migraine were 30 percent more likely to have below average school performance than those with no headaches.

"Studies have looked at the burden of migraine for adolescents, but less work has been done to determine the effect of migraine on younger children," said study author Marcelo E. Bigal, MD, PhD, of Merck & Co. in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, and a member of the American Academy of Neurology.

For the study, the students' teachers provided information on students' performance that was the same information provided to educational boards. Teachers also completed a validated questionnaire screening for emotional and behavioral problems and interviewed parents with a questionnaire covering medical history, headaches and other information.

The study found that 0.6 percent of the children had chronic migraine, or migraine on 15 or more days per month, 9 percent had episodic migraine, and 17.6 percent had probable migraine, which meant they met all but one of the criteria for migraine and did not meet the full criteria for any other type of headache syndrome.

The link between migraine and poor performance in school was even stronger for children with migraines that were more severe, lasted longer, or for children with chronic migraine, as well as for those who also had emotional or behavioral problems.

"With approximately one-fourth of school-age children having headaches with migraine features, this is a serious problem, especially for those with frequent, severe attacks that do not subside quickly," Bigal said. "Parents and teachers need to take these headaches seriously and make sure children get appropriate medical attention and treatment."

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Endorsements flood in, but do voters care?

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, campaign at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Marion County Fairgrounds, in Marion, Ohio, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

President Barack Obama walks with his daughters Sasha, foreground, and Malia as they leave St. John's Episcopal Church and return to the White House in Washington, on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? In one October weekend, Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama each scored a victory from a major newspaper in the all-important state of Florida. On one end, the Tampa Bay Times endorsed Obama, praising him for steady economic progress and sure-footed foreign policy. On the other, the Orlando Sentinel backed Romney, describing him an able and tested leader even as it frowned on his conservative statements about social issues.

Roughly halfway between the two along Florida's coveted, swing-voting I-4 corridor, Lorrie Walker shrugged.

"I don't think it has any influence at all," said Walker, an undecided voter in the town of Lakeland.

A public relations professional, Walker says she gets why both candidates are plugging their endorsements. But she doesn't think it works, primarily because newspaper editorial pages often have a reputation for leaning liberal or conservative. "I discount it, because I think, 'Of course they're endorsing that candidate,'" she said.

As the campaign nears its nail-biting conclusion, both campaigns are trumpeting a flood of newspaper endorsements ? and using them as a stamp of approval in television ads and emails. On Sunday alone, Obama's campaign touted 10 endorsements he picked up, including the Detroit Free Press and the Toledo Blade. Fourteen papers, including the Florida Times-Union and the Richmond Times-Dispatch, gave their nod to Romney.

Nowhere do the candidates crave a newspaper's approval more than in the handful of battleground states that will decide the next president.

Obama minced no words in an interview he gave Tuesday to the Des Moines Register as he courted its support.

"I want your endorsement," Obama said. He added: "You'll feel better when you give it."

They didn't. Instead, on Saturday, the influential Iowa paper backed Romney and said he "offers a fresh economic vision."

But who reads newspapers anymore? For all the energy spent winning and then advertising endorsements, do they make any difference?

"The short answer is no," said Jack Pitney, a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College. "But at this stage in the campaign, you're looking for every edge you can get, even if it's a microscopic edge."

Newspaper circulation has steadily declined in recent years, from almost 47 million per day in 2004 to barely 40 million last year, according to the Newspaper Association of America. While there's little data to show whether voters listen to what their local paper has to say about elections, there is some evidence that endorsements from people ? like celebrities and other politicians ? sometimes have a minor effect. In January, a Fox News poll showed 29 percent of voters would be more likely to vote for a candidate endorsed by former President Bill Clinton. Seventeen percent said the same about former President George W. Bush.

At this stage, campaigns, more than anything, want to establish that momentum is swinging in their candidate's direction. With the debates and the nominating conventions over, that's getting increasingly tough to do. So along with poll numbers and fundraising totals, newspaper endorsements are one way to show that a candidate is benefiting from a burst of enthusiasm.

Even if candidates don't know exactly when an endorsement is coming, they generally have a sense of which way a newspaper is likely to go, based on endorsements from previous years and editorials the paper has written about the candidates earlier in the race. But readers often choose newspapers that match their views about the world, political strategists say, and so it is likely readers are already supportive of the candidate their paper chooses and won't be swayed.

One exception: Endorsements that seem to fly in the face of a newspaper's perceived political persuasion.

"If a traditionally left paper endorses Romney, or a traditionally right paper endorses Obama, that matters, because people go, 'Huh, that's curious,'" said Dan Hazelwood, a Republican strategist.

State and local races are the other scenario where endorsements could play a larger role. Voters often pay less attention to races for Congress, city council or county commissioner than they do about the White House race. With less information to guide their decision, they may turn to a local paper whose reporters they expect have been closely tracking the issues.

"This is what they do for a living, so they usually have the best information," said Cody Slater, a 23-year-old voter in Petrolia, Pa., who is undecided in the presidential race.

Still, not all newspapers want to get their hands dirty by wading into messy political fights. Count the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel among them; The paper announced Friday it had decided to "get out of the political endorsement business."

"This loss of credibility is a high price to pay to conjure a ghost of newspapering past that we have come to believe is of little value today," wrote editorial page editor David Haynes. "Endorsements are a relic of a time when every town had more than one newspaper, of a time long before the wide river of commentary now available to anyone with a smartphone."

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Associated Press news survey specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.

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Monday, October 29, 2012

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Here Are The Official Specs For The Nexus 4 And Nexus 10

When Google announced the Nexus 4 and the Nexus 10, they neglected to mention specific specifications for folks who specifically wanted them. Luckily, we just got our hands on a nice, complete list. As we noted, the N10 has a 5MP front camera and 1.9MP back camera and 2GB RAM. It's running a Dual-core A15 Eagle processor and runs for up to 500 hours on standby.

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Sunday, October 28, 2012

On Just A Couple Acres: ~Grammar~

Grammar being a study of words and not of things, is by no means attractive to the child, nor should he be hurried into it. English grammar, again, depending as it does on the position and logical connection of words, is peculiarly hard for him to grasp.

Because English grammar is a logical study, and deals with sentences and the positions that words occupy in them, rather than with words, and what they are in their own right, it is better that the child should begin with the sentence, and not with the parts of speech; that is, that he should learn a little of what is called analysis of sentences before he leans to parse; should learn to divide simple sentences into the thing we speak of, and what we say about it? before he is lost in the fog of person, mood, and part of speech.

When it comes to grammar, I had already fallen away from rigid teaching before I knew much of Charlotte Mason. My experience with it makes her words resonate that much more with me. I tried grammar lessons with my oldest for years when he was young. At first it was a fun program, but as he advanced, it lost it's simplicity and became very intensive and methodical. He was hung up for weeks and weeks trying to memorize a particular aspect when the wisdom of Ruth Beechick freed him from the painful lesson and I put off that trouble for later years when he might pick it up more naturally. If he even will need it at all. She states-

Not only does diagramming fail to improve children's writing, but all other grammar teaching suffers similarly. We have had about one hundred years of research on teaching the old Latin grammar. We also researched the newer generative and transactional grammars, with this method and that method, with this content and that content, and all the research was disappointing. Teaching grammar does not improve children's writing. That gives the happy message that you can skip the grammar drudgery, at least through the elementary years. After children write well, sometime in their teen years, they can learn some grammar so they will be educated about it. They will not have been burned out on it, and they may actually enjoy it at that time. - Ruth Beechick

After learning to speak and then learning to write, students can begin to handle a formal study of grammar. Some verbally oriented students or those who understand abstractions will take to this more readily than others. Those who take up writing full- or part-time are likely to make this ?a lifelong study. We do them a favor by not boring them or burning them out on grammar while they are young. The schooling world and the advertising world have convinced many people that to teach language you must teach grammar, and you must begin early as though that is the route to good writing and speaking. But the real route is to use the language first, immerse children in the language, and then teach its grammar.
This delay of grammar and minimizing of grammar is not at all to minimize English teaching. Quite the opposite. If your children are not burdened with diffiuclt and ineffective grammar then they have more time for learning that counts. -?A Biblical Home Education

She points out that teaching grammar to the youngest of our children should be simple and natural "since children automatically learn the grammar of the people around them."

So dear mothers, learn to speak well yourself and your children will naturally follow!

Source: http://onjustacoupleacres.blogspot.com/2012/10/grammar.html

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