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Re: The Antidote to Mean Girls

Julie Pippert — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:01:09 -0000

My daughter plays daily with a neighborhood child & they do have an...ahem...volatile (?) dynamic. When it came to birthday party time, she could only invite 7 children (all I could afford) and this girl wasn't one. I told her I would respect that, but she could NOT use it as a "rub it in" thing and had to be "humble" about party and not brag on it, especially in front of others, especially ones not invited. I am "conditioned" mightily and have felt pressure where we live now b/c it is a VERY "conditioned" community (thanks for giving me the language!) so husband and I have felt very troubled about not including this child. But we have kept quiet and respected daughter's choice, now I fear we've made her feel bad about it.

She plays with and is "friends" with this child by situation not by choice but often ends up troubled by interactions with the other child.

Nothing wrong with either child---just the dynamic.

So I want to respect and reinforce this idea that it's okay to choose to be with those you prefer---and she made good choices.

What do you advise? I'm torn.

Thanks for this great post!

Re: Why Arts in Education Matter

Julie Pippert — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:28:08 -0000

What a powerful story---the exact example we should keep in mind, always.

I agree the arts can help kids succeed, and you made an excellent point that by de-emphasizing the arts, we convey the idea that these skills are unimportant or less worthy.

SciFi dad also made the point that school then becomes a *training* place rather than a place of *education* and that came to my mind when reading this.

I wonder how many at-risk kids will be lost as we drop the arts.

So glad you joined in!!

Re: Untainted Oceans

Julie Pippert — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:23:39 -0000

Thanks, Karoli. I think there is anothe rreason a lid is being kept on this. I knew there was a media blackout to a degree that was in place and yesterday I think I found out why. Thanks for trying to bring more attention and help because whatever the politics are that are going on, the people need help.

Re: Miles to Go Before I Sleep…

Julie Pippert — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:33:53 -0000

Ah Amy what a thing...really, what a thing. i am glad he is improving. And I'm really glad to read such a thoughtful, caring post about remembering what's important and keeping perspective, and on love. Hang in there and continuing good wishes to your brother.

P.S. Adorable photo!

Re: Mother’s Day: 5 Social Media Tools for New Moms

Julie Pippert — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:17:28 -0000

Great list---I'm a fan of OpMom!

I also have to plug Savvy Source, which has a main site and also sites specific to cities all over the US. It has great parenting information and is a wonderful resource for parents seeking childcare/preschools---has tons of reviews from parents who have children in the programs.

Themotherhood.com is also great---so many neat groups and resources for moms.

Re: A private note to PR people

Julie Pippert — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:31:12 -0000

I found this article from Twitter, where quite a few of us comment (good and bad, mostly bad) about PR pitches. In fact, that's where I got another link to an entire blog dedicated to critiquing PR pitches. This girl Maisie, who is a mommyblogger (gets a lot of pitches) started PR Pass Fail blog http://prfail.blogspot.com/ and is deconstructing the good, the bad and the ugly.

The difference between this and Bad Pitch Blog that Shel Holtz mentioned is that instead of being run by PR people, it's the done by a person who is a representative of the people the PR people are trying to reach.

I confess I submitted a good pitch on her mail in offer.

I totally agree, defensive is not the way to go. Learning and improving is.

Great article.

Re: We’re All #1 On Technorati

Julie Pippert — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:43:06 -0000

I noticed that and thought HUH? I knew they were changing, upgrading whatever and had become PING-unreliable during all this but...this is odd. Thanks for writing about it.

Now can you unravel what it means?

Re: We’re All #1 On Technorati

Julie Pippert — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:03:41 -0000

So other people have WILD swings in ranking lately too?

Mine has varied (rank wise) 5000! And the authority 100!

I can't figure it out. It makes no sense to me.