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TexasProgresive

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6. Those stories use to be learned at home.

Reply to Demtexan (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 08:37 AM

Dec 2017

I don't think the parents even know them much less the kids. I have tried to use the metaphor, Midas' touch with middle school kids and they just have deer in the headlights eyes. Having to explain it makes the lesson weak. So I have learned to not take it for granted that kids know anything that was formerly in the common knowledge.

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Some day the wolf will be real, but no one will listen. [View all] DavidDvorkin Dec 2017 OP

Say what??? True Dough Dec 2017 #1

Aesop DavidDvorkin Dec 2017 #2

The Boy Who Called Wolf. Demtexan Dec 2017 #3

It would be good if Mom and Dad read such stories to their children. No Vested Interest Dec 2017 #4

Those stories use to be learned at home. TexasProgresive Dec 2017 #6

I find that a real shame. My parents both read and told stories to me when I was a child. Tipperary Dec 2017 #10

It's ALREADY real, and howling, and in the White House -- and not enough people are listening. /t pnwmom Dec 2017 #5

Spot on! Va Lefty Dec 2017 #7

My post refers to the claims of major upcoming news DavidDvorkin Dec 2017 #8

I seem to remember a Rockie and Bullwinkle cartoon about this. Demtexan Dec 2017 #11

We see, hear and smell the wolf - soon, with our votes, we will touch him. (n/t) FreepFryer Dec 2017 #9