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CherriSpryte
07:41 PM

In reply to M Is For Michelle, An Elegant Mystery
Aww, not my M name. .... but honestly, I don't think you can define a person by a name. Or astrological sign, or any of that. People are who they are, and commonalities come through experiences, not names or birthdays.
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girlscoutcookie is back from hiatus
06:19 PM

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Bummed my name wasn't the M name, but it never is. For anything.

Michelle was my best friend growing up. She had, like, a different personality every week-- not in a bad way, or how she'd treat you, but in the way of like, oh this week I'm into yoga! Now I'm obsessed with soaps! Now we have to go buy workout gear 'cause I'm a RUNNER now! Now I'm going to be a singer! No, an actress! No, an interior decorator! No, a doctor!--and she was always the first person in school to have the funky new haircut. She was kind of fearless but wore her heart on her sleeve a lot-- I'd probably have called her a drama queen if I didn't like her so much. I moved away when we were 15, eight years ago, and we lost touch. I miss her. She'll always be the one the Beatles were singing about to me.
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rodmanstreet
05:52 PM

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And how about Me'Shell?
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mfnher
04:40 PM

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Don't forget Michele Norris! Her voice continues to soothe me on my drive. Maybe she doesn't count, because it's Meeeshell?
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myyysharona
05:12 PM

@mfnher: woah, i think that's the first time I've seen (instead of heard) anyone from NPR
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mfnher
05:21 PM

@myyysharona: I wish I could find it, but they did a thing on their website where they did audio clips, and you had to try and match it up to their pictures. I did a horrific job at guessing.
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myyysharona
07:33 PM

@mfnher: i would have probably screwed up on that quiz, too. right after i commented on this and went to npr.org. i poked around the site until i found out what the other commentators and reporters looked like. what i imagined in my mind versus what i saw were completely different. (well, except for carl kassel.) now i am wondering how far off my mental images of what my clients from work (the ones i only have phone relationships with) are...
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frugal
04:30 PM

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Michele Norris! She has a beautiful voice, my sometimes she uses it to sound so bitchy.
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Penny
04:20 PM

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The Michelles I know are professional acquaintances. They are all nice, but nothing like you described as far as elegant, etc.
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the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene
03:57 PM

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I think of Michelle Tanner when I hear the name Michelle. When I discovered that Michelle was played by twins, it blew my mind. I guess I don't really know very many Michelles in real life.

I am also late to this name game, as I didn't realize that my name (my name lacks an N though and is not pronounced the same way) was the first one covered.
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Mary McCarthyite
03:49 PM

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No! I beg to differ. My best friend is a Michelle, and while she is indeed tall and cool, she is one of the messiest people I know, and she gets asked out a lot.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
03:34 PM

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Run with scissors! Play in traffic!
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Cookie Dough Monster
02:01 PM

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Oh man, I can't comment intelligently on this because I know the girl pictured very, VERY well... and her parents are not helicopter-y at all (and actually very annoyed that this picture was chosen to run in a million papers along with an AP article). Seeing this picture here is super-weird!
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ihateyourescalade
02:05 PM

@Cookie Dough Monster: Her parents, or their lawyer, should contact the AP and threaten a libel suit if that photo is not removed immediately. Trust me, it will be gone in a flash.
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ihateyourescalade
02:00 PM

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For heaven's sake, America, cut parents some slack. We're doing the best job we can here. OK? Enough already. And don't even think about sassing me, America, because you'll end up in a time out so fast it'll make your head spin.
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femme-bot
10:41 PM

@ihateyourescalade: [jezebel.com]

Yeah, we ought to cut parents some slack.
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BlondeGoddess
01:53 PM

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Every comment is shown in italics, which makes everything look ironic.

Maybe she hasn't been ground-breaking for the past few years, but she has done a lot for television, for women, for breaking down barriers and taboos. I can't help but appreciate her and love her.
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kookla
01:37 PM

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Let's face it. These last two seasons, Oprah has looked "checked out" which may have a lot to do with her thyroid condition.

The other day I was flipping through the channels and was shocked at the size of the goiter on her neck. I was hoping that she would put her health before the joy she gets from rolling around in piles of cash.
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salthegeek
01:37 PM

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My dad kinda cares about my school, he just says that he cant sleep at night ect. to make me work harder . My mom on the other hand inserts herself in to any class that I have a problem in. Being 22 and in college it's rather embarrassing
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ihateyourescalade
02:01 PM

@salthegeek: It's "etc.," though. Love, mom. ;)
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salthegeek
02:17 PM

@ihateyourescalade: eh, she did save me form failing a class, once.

#tips
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jairip
01:23 PM

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Part of the problem for parents is that you are not allowed to let your child develop at his/her own pace anymore. If they don't hit a milestone "society" throws "early intervention is key" at you and then blam-o, you're a bad parent if you don't get your kids therapy every other week.

People wouldn't need to be taught to de-overparent if the school systems would stop making parents so crazy in the first place.

A friend of mine showed me a list she was given by her school system of skills her kids had to master before he would be allowed into kindergarden. This list included recognizing the whole alphabet, numbers, basic shapes & colors and some other stuff I can't even remember. The list was a page and a half long. My question was, "What's kindergarden for then?"

Maybe if we de-checklist the system the parents will follow.

J
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rah29
01:44 PM

@jairip: That sounds insane! But I really think you're on to something. No wonder parents are worried, everyone is telling them their kid has to master things at very specific times or else they're like, stupid. After I left my secondary school, they actually tried to implement a thing where students had homework 'diaries' and parents had to sign them every night. My mother was so fed up she just had my sister forge her signature every day.
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Hazey Jane
02:35 PM

@jairip: I worry about this sort of thing, too—especially with reading. I didn't learn to read until I was six. I could read really simple words at five, but it didn't really "click" until I was six and in first grade. I consider myself a fairly intelligent person and was definitely not a "slow" child in other respects (nor did I dislike books—in fact, I remember being really eager to learn to read). Once I finally got it, I could read as well as the kids who had been reading since they were three or four. I was lucky that my mom knew about child development and that my kindergarten and first grade teachers were old pros, so no one was concerned that I'd end up illiterate. I worry that a lot of kids in my situation now would be held back a year unnecessarily or would be endlessly bombarded with reading lessons until they are totally put off the idea.

Basically, schools and parents need to take a step back and realize that there's almost always a range for what's normal and that even being a little bit over it doesn't always mean there's something seriously wrong with a child.
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Plum-Pie
03:14 PM

@jairip: And such milestones are based on 'averages' so crude as to be meaningless for any real analysis of a child's progress. (My cousin is writing a PhD in, broadly speaking, teaching maths to kids with learning difficulties, and such things anger her greatly.)
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jairip
04:28 PM

@Plum-Pie: I think some people loose sight of what "average" means. It means some kids do "insert skill here" early, some do it later. It doesn't mean, if your kid masters said skill before the "average" he/she is brilliant.

Read with your best pirate voice...

'the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rule'

#tips
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rah29
07:42 PM

@Hazey Jane: You know what? My sister couldn't read until she was about six either. My parents were kind of worried, because I'd started reading at 2 (I was a little freak), but my mum always swore she knew her kids, and that my sister was a physical little brute of a child who would read in her own time. Of course, the sis is now in med school, and she had better grades than me the whole way through school. She even aced English although she loathed it because 'for God's sake you don't need that many words to express made up feelings.'
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