by Leah Langby | Jul 1, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
According to The Wakanheza Project Agency and Business Community Organizing Guide, Empathy and Respect is:Empathy is defined as the capacity for participating in the feelings or ideas of others and can be easily shared. When we place ourselves in the shoes of another,...
by Leah Langby | Jun 30, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Folks at the Pepin Library had fun with the Bassmeister this summer, with puppets, ventriloquism, illusions, visual props, and plenty of humorous but important safety tips. About 50 people attended an indoor picnic and the show–pretty terrific turnout for...
by Leah Langby | Jun 15, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
It is time for this week’s installment about The Wakanheza Project™, and the principle we will explore today is powerlessness. According to The Wakanheza Project Agency, Business and Community Organizing Guide:”The Initiative’s violence prevention...
by Leah Langby | Jun 13, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many of you have probably already heard about the article in the Wall Street Journal last week by Meghan Cox Gurdon, Darkness Too Visible. It seems that every few years, there is an influential op-ed piece that decries the horrors of current YA literature, and this...
by Leah Langby | Jun 9, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Part 3 of the list of websites shared by Rhonda Puntney (thanks, Rhonda!) MISCELLANEOUS Magnificent Maps The British Library has a few maps in its collection, and it is an institution that is well-positioned to create an exhibition with the title “Magnificent...
by Leah Langby | Jun 2, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks again to Rhonda Puntney from the Lakeshores and Mid-Wisconsin Library Systems. Her compilation of websites related to the Summer Library Program theme is terrific! Here is part 2: Literature and Bibliograhies and Cultures and Customs. LITERATURE...
