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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 2000
Page
14
Guidance from Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children's Entertainment urges avoiding movie tied toys and tech heavy items. Suggestions include a shoe box for creative play with themes and household props, plus affordable toy alternatives like Wonderboard and multisensory Earl E. Bird items for various ages.
Experts urge parents to define creative play, negotiate limits on TV and video games, and mix commercial toys with building blocks and props. They warn against imitative play and encourage structured, child led scenarios such as a mini restaurant kit to foster script writing and role play.
Resources promoting safe and creative play with educational toys and media. Lion & Lamb lists affordable, nonviolent toys. Children’s Software reviews thousands of electronic kids’ toys and games with skill-education notes. Media and the Family rates violence and content in games, TV, and movies. TRACE at Wheelock College supports creative play and offers guidance via email.
Pygmalion, known for sharing every morsel and flower scent with his statue beloved, wakes to find her flesh and life blooming from cold marble. The statue steps from her pedestal, hugs him, and declares life granted by his storytelling and love.
In Aiken and beyond, teachers push courtesy as respect and decency. Governors and lawmakers weigh civility laws after school violence, with Louisiana enforcing a yes sir yes maam rule and others debating or rejecting similar bills. Critics call it fluff, supporters see civility as part of values education.
Maggie Gomez, Odessa High School student and hearing impaired, overcame fear of stigma to write and deliver her own commencement speech. Guided by Barbara Faubion and the Optimist Club, she refined the talk with Atchley of the Regional Day School for the Deaf and plans to study legal assisting at Odessa College.
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