Wacky Wednesday's Worst 80's Hair Styles

They have been bringing the 80's back for clothing styles. Let's hope the hair styles that should have never left the drawing board stay in the 80's where they belong.

The poodle look, something that never should have happened.





Okay, did someone take a chunk out of her hair? What was she thinking?

I'm sorry she looks like a poodle with some hat hair.

 

Short bangs?! Did a 2 year old get a hold of her hair while she was sleeping?

Strong Middle School Get's A Big Fat "F" In My Book

Strong Middle School Gets A Big Fat "F" In My Book

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Jane Elliot's Blue Eyes/ Brown Eyes Exercise

Photo by Charlotte Button

When I was in college, we learned about the famous Jane Elliot's Blue Eyes/ Brown Eyes Experiment conducted on her 6th grade class in 1968. After the shooting of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Jane Elliot, a school teacher was struggling to explain the concept of "Racism" to her students, when she came up with the idea of the Blue Eyes/ Brown Eyes exercise for her classroom of 8 year old children. Little did she know she was making history and her classroom exercise would be studied in classrooms for years to come and would be the foundation of many future experiments.

This experiment has always intrigued me since hearing about it, because it shows how easily children can be swayed into becoming racist. I decided to share the exercise with my readers, because it is a great example of how easily our children can be influenced. Not only into racism, but across the board with many of the issues our children are faced with today. Such as; racism, bullying, drugs, and etc.  It shows an example of how children will ban together against another child or race, because that is what is acceptable. They will disassociate themselves from another child or children who are considered undesirable.

The Neatorama Blog  quotes Jane Elliot on her experiment.

With King shot just the day before in Memphis, Elliott encouraged her third-graders to discuss how something so horrible could happen.

"I finally said, ‘Do you kids have any idea how it feels to be something other than white in this country?’ "
The children shook their heads and said they wanted to learn, so Elliott set the rules. Blue-eyed children must use a cup to drink from the fountain. Blue-eyed children must leave late to lunch and to recess. Blue-eyed children were not to speak to brown-eyed children. Blue-eyed children were troublemakers and slow learners.
Within 15 minutes, Elliott says, she observed her brown-eyed students morph into youthful supremacists and blue-eyed children become uncertain and intimidated.
Brown-eyed children "became domineering and arrogant and judgmental and cool," she says. "And smart! Smart! All of a sudden, disabled readers were reading. I thought, ‘This is not possible, this is my imagination.’ And I watched bright, blue-eyed kids become stupid and frightened and frustrated and angry and resentful and distrustful. It was absolutely the strangest thing I’d ever experienced."

Summer

The sun is looking down on us and laughing, because he is burning us all up. 

Where Are The Birds?

One thing I have noticed this spring is there are a lot fewer birds than usual. I put out my bird feeder every spring and I usually have to fill it every couple of days. It has been out there for almost two weeks and it's not empty yet. I miss seeing the birds and hearing them in the morning. They usually line up on the fence to eat, but this year I am only seeing a bird or two through out the day. We used to get doves, finches,cardinals, and of course the black birds. It's kind of sad, because it makes you wonder what happened to them. It makes me wonder if all the tornadoes in the south this spring has something to do with it. This spring has too many spiders and too few birds.

Dieting Do's & Don'ts

If your anything like me, the specialists on dieting are making you crazy. You never know what really works. The specialists conflict one another on what you should or shouldn't do while dieting. So, how are you supposed to know what to do if they can't get together and come up with a few good solutions to weight loss?

For most women once they hit their 30's or have had children, losing weight and staying in shape becomes a never ending battle. We all want the quick fix to lose weight fast. I really don't think there is one. Unless your willing to have plastic surgery or try one these new weight loss procedures. Believe me, it had crossed my mind, if only I had the money to try one.  Everything they come up with seems to not work for everyone. Our bodies are different, their is no universal weight loss method. What used to work best for me, no longer works the way it used to. I usually try and stick to the traditional method, by watching my fat, sugar and carbs intake with exercise. The weight just seems to be coming off slower since I have hit 40 this past year. It's like a little wand was waved over me when I turned 40, for some reason weight loss is so much harder than it used to be.  I used to be able to watch what I eat and walk or go to the gym and drop the weight off in no time. Now, it takes forever just to get five pounds off and I have to be even more careful about what I eat, because the pounds come on so easily. I feel like I am forever dieting. Dieting has almost become normal for me. I wish I could be one those people who walk in the store and picks up a candy bar once and a while. But then, there is that thought in the back of my mind "I really don't need it, because I will probably gain a pound from eating a candy bar.

Wacky Wednesday

Large Asian Salamander

Giant Japanese Salamander

Purple Frog Discovered in India in 2003