Favorite Links

January 8, 2011 at 1:50 pm (Uncategorized)

Here are some of my favorite links about topics I feel are important to our children’s future:

The importance of play

http://www.wholechildeducation.org/

Get ‘em Outside http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRR1feHqZPY&feature=related

Old Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19212514

Tag, a comedy: http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/jeff-lewis-comedy-dad-whats-this-game-called-tag/

Health benefits of getting dirty: http://simplemom.net/let-your-kids-get-dirty/

Where do the children play?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_BCJQut8c

Want kids to get into college?  Let them play: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/12/29/christakis.play.children.learning/index.html?hpt=Sbin

http://school.familyeducation.com/outdoor-activities/play/38353.html

http://www.letchildrenplay.com/

Food

Jamie Oliver on School Lunches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIwrV5e6fMY

8 talks about agriculture and its history, sustainability, food, health, etc.: http://indianapublicmedia.org/eartheats/ted-talks-food/

Farm to school:
http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/slow_food/blog_post/farm_to_school_programs_help_nutrition_without_hurting_the_budget/

Ann Cooper, Renegade Lunch Lady, Reinventing School Lunch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXvDLPu5vh0

A teacher eats school lunch every day to prove a point: http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/would-you-volunteer-to-eat-school-lunch-every-day-to-prove-a-point-this-teacher-did-1157394/

Snacks and kids: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/u-s-children-generation-snack/

Creativity

Changing Educations Paradigms & a history of education: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

American Creativity is Declining: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html

Creativity: http://blog.ted.com/2009/02/09/elizabeth_gilbe/

Culture of Girls

Too sexy, too soon: http://www.hulu.com/watch/192448/abc-nightline-too-sexy-too-soon

Katie Makkai, Pretty:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6wJl37N9C0

Challenging the sexualization of young girls:  http://www.sparksummit.com/

Perfection: http://www.danoah.com/2010/09/disease-called-perfection.html?spref=fb

The Single Ladies dance: http://rosalindwiseman.com/2010/05/26/the-single-ladies-dance-outrage-the-crisis-of-girls%E2%80%99-sexualization/

Fat Talk: http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/724627-fat-talk-free-week-take-3-changing-body-image-by-changing-behavior

Ending Fat Talk: http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKPaxD61lwo&feature=player_embedded