The Washington Post reports that a new nationwide survey of girls and boys found that a majority of them have little or no interest with achieving leadership roles when they become adults, ranking “being a leader” behind other goals such as “fitting in,” “making a lot of money” and “helping animals or the environment.”
(HT: NPR [...]
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Kids Don’t Seem Interested in Leadership Roles
Advent Conspiracy
Advent Conspiracy is an international movement restoring the scandal of Christmas by worshipping Jesus through compassion, not consumption.
I like it. They have a great site with some great resources.
Should Foster Parents Be Paid?
Mary Callahan was on Talk of the Nation yesterday talking about her article in the LA Times questioning paying foster parents.
You can read her article here. Her conclusion is that we ought to focus more on taking care of the birth families and when foster parents are needed the fact that they are paid [...]
Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism
NPR is talking about social networking right now. They brought up a good point about merely ‘collecting’ friends vs. ‘cultivating friendship.’ This hits my own struggle with social networking and how to keep up with so many people. I go back and forth between the pros and cons.
One aspect of much social networking is [...]
New Handsfree Headset for Your Cell Phone
I couldn’t resist. Picture the guy standing in line at Starbucks with this instead of the Bluetooth! Love it.
Web Crash 2007
This is too funny…
HT: Steve
State Parks Have Wireless!?
Apparantly this is old news but I just read a blog by someone camping at a State Park in South Dakota that has wireless. I googled it and found California State parks have a deal with AT&T and Kentucky State Parks are hooked up as well.
Maybe it’s just me but this amazes me. When I [...]
Passport Delays
This line looks all too similar to the one I stood in three times the other month to get our children’s passports. The first day, the line was simply too long so I left. The second day, I forgot my check book and the kids (they didn’t tell me the kids had to actually be [...]
Social Networking
The number of venues for social-networking online are increasing monthly it seems. Here is a list I found on an old friend’s blog of the most popular sites that exist.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on using these sites wisely. What sites do you use? How do we balance our online networking/relationships with our [...]
Beyond the Third Place?
The “third place” is the place between the home and the office - for many it is the coffeeshop. It is in the third place that we meet friends, hold business meetings, rest, work, get away from things, etc. Richard Florida has a great post on the status of the coffeeshop as the third place [...]
