Tag: opinion

• Banned Books: Steinbeck & The Library Bill of Rights

  

  Read about the book that sparked so much controversy that The Library Bill of Rights was created to protect the rights of libraries on behalf of all readers

  C.H. Armstrong

  October 2, 2015

  Banned Books Week, The Edge of Nowhere

  banned books, banned books week, book burning, books, censorship, Challenged Books, libraries, library bill of rights, opinion, reading, steinbeck, the grapes of wrath

• Banned Books Day 4: Captain Underpants!

  

  As parents, of course we don’t want our children to be disrespectful, but do we really want them to not question something they know is wrong, even if the perpetrator of the wrong-doing is an authority figure?

  C.H. Armstrong

  September 30, 2015

  Banned Books Week

  banned books week, books, captain underpants, Challenged Books, children, dave pilkey, fiction, juvenile fiction, must read, opinion, parenting, reading, young readers

• BANNED BOOKS WEEK: DAY TWO

  

  Rebecca Skloot states: “…my book is many things: It’s a story of race and medicine, bioethics, science illiteracy, the importance of education and equality and science and so much more. But it is not anything resembling pornography.”

  C.H. Armstrong

  September 28, 2015

  Banned Books Week

  banned books, banned books week, books, Challenged Books, Henrietta Lacks, medicine, opinion, reading, Rebecca Skloot, Science, STEM, Technology

• BANNED BOOKS WEEK: DAY ONE!

  

  It is my right to decide what is and is not appropriate reading material for my children.

  C.H. Armstrong

  September 27, 2015

  Banned Books Week

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• Parents Who Fail to Teach Respect, Fail Us All

  Dear Readers, Today’s blog is completely different from my normal blogging style.  Usually I try to bring you the witty day-to-day goings on of my family and, specifically, with my children.  But I saw a story on The Today Show this morning that has me so angry that I can’t seem to think past it.…

  C.H. Armstrong

  June 21, 2012

  Family

  bullying, bullying in schools, chatty cathie, children, editorial, elderly, elderly bullying, Family, karen klein, kids, matt lauer, nasty comments, opinion, parenting, parenting rules, rochester new york, teens, the today show, what not to say

• What the…What?

  It’s Wednesday, and I’d like to introduce a new weekly feature here at Chatty Cathie’s Endless Chatter…What the…What? Wednesday! Each Wednesday, I’ll bring you amusing images, articles and anecdotes I’ve run across in the previous weeks that are sure to give you a double-take and make you wonder what in the world people were thinking!…

  C.H. Armstrong

  April 11, 2012

  Family

  beauty, humor, opinion, samantha brick