Einstein Never Used Flash Cards.

I'm reading a book called, Einstein Never Used Flash Cards. It's about how children develop intelligence and how all of the flash card, classical music hype is really just that. It touches on children in our culture that are over scheduled so that their parents can feel like they will be ready for school-then college. It's pretty interesting and I agree with most of it. I mean, certainly there isn't any problem teaching your kid to read early, but they need to have the basic skills down too. How to get in line, how to sit, how to pay attention.

I bet we have an entire generation in 20 years that are talking to their cyber shrinks about how they were over scheduled children. I bet they say it causes some sort of psychological damage and they give it some sort of name. You know, like the now termed, ADHD, which we just called hyperactive when I was a kid. Which basically meant that your parents avoided giving you sugar and made you run laps around the house. I do think that ADHD is a legitimate disorder... I just feel as though it might be being misdiagnosed as it seems to be at epic proportions nowadays. Maybe they'll have all of the 20 somethings with their hang ups, relive their childhood and lay around playing video games and contributing absolutely nothing to society. Yeah. That'll be great for a whole generation.

I built a website this weekend, in the minimalist style that I've been wanting to experiment with. It's for my new clients who also have three other options to choose from. And I really dig it. I think I might shift my web style over to the minimalist style completely. I so love the less is more theory in web design.

I've joined a Mommies Club, which I think might be cool, but I'm really disappointed in the lack of community service that's being done. An organization that large, (not huge, but ya know, 50 members or so) has the potential to make a pretty good impact on the area, not to mention that it can help to teach some of the older kids that like it's just about them. Something that I think this generation may have a hard time grasping due to the whole overscheduling thing. Maybe I'll see if I can rally them into some community service action, or hell, maybe I'll to start my own. You know, community service club for kids. Then I can over schedule them with my activities, teaching them that it's not all about them, it's all about Mommy. Yeah, I know they'll never believe it... but it's nice to fantasize once in a while.