http://american-family.org/2007/01/15/mateener-keen/ Tue, 22 May 2012 22:40:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://american-family.org/2007/01/15/mateener-keen/comment-page-1/#comment-67008 American Family » disjointed, but maybe not incoherent Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:37:45 +0000 http://american-family.org/2007/01/15/mateener-keen/#comment-67008 [...] M brought a Martin Luther King day project from school.  All the kids seemed to have used the same brown crayon to color Dr. King.  M has never shown much interest in making her drawings of people look true to skin tone.   Usually she draws everything with red, because that is her favorite color.  The brown skinned coloring makes me wonder a little about what her teachers’ instructions were and what kind of discussions were going on in the class.  She did manage to say the poem in a way that was understandable this year. [...] [...] M brought a Martin Luther King day project from school.  All the kids seemed to have used the same brown crayon to color Dr. King.  M has never shown much interest in making her drawings of people look true to skin tone.   Usually she draws everything with red, because that is her favorite color.  The brown skinned coloring makes me wonder a little about what her teachers’ instructions were and what kind of discussions were going on in the class.  She did manage to say the poem in a way that was understandable this year. [...]

]]> http://american-family.org/2007/01/15/mateener-keen/comment-page-1/#comment-31412 kjames Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:51:21 +0000 http://american-family.org/2007/01/15/mateener-keen/#comment-31412 MLK day is such a great opportunity to talk about our kids about race/racism. I've been able to have several really cool conversations with Simon today simply because we are observing this holiday. MLK day is such a great opportunity to talk about our kids about race/racism. I’ve been able to have several really cool conversations with Simon today simply because we are observing this holiday.

]]> http://american-family.org/2007/01/15/mateener-keen/comment-page-1/#comment-31391 Connie Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:56:37 +0000 http://american-family.org/2007/01/15/mateener-keen/#comment-31391 ...and in the words of a child explained so perfectly. …and in the words of a child explained so perfectly.

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