Weekly Medley: T-shirt refashioning

At Crafting a Green World this week, a parent shared a story about how she helps her daughter create new clothing from her old, outgrown items. Wood Sprite and I often make things from her old pieces of clothing, from draft dodgers for the doors to clothing for her stuffed animals, but we’ve never pieced together items to create new things for her to wear. We may have to try this out!

Playing with Words is featuring a series of blogs about how to be your child’s own speech therapist. So far the tips seem pretty brilliant, and I think they could help many families—so be sure to pass on the link if you can think of anyone who might be able to use this info.

Have you heard about the mom who brought a game to her child’s school, but only brought award ribbons for the boys who played it? When the top 3 boys—who were already awarded their ribbons—were bested by two girls, the mom was flabbergasted and claimed she didn’t bring the girls ribbons because she thought there’d be no way that a girl would beat a boy! I’m flabbergasted by that idea, myself.

There’s a book called Pink Brain, Blue Brain that I want to read. You can check out more information at the website, but it’s basically about how girls and boys are programmed from infancy to behave according to their gender by their parents, family and society in general. I’m sure it’s going to be an interesting read.

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