The OTA is the Open Trackback Alliance. Pretty much, it’s a way that more people can learn of each others blogs and such. It helps people discover new blogs and prompts people to read more of them. I like to……

I actually believe kindergarten is counter productive for many children. Heck, let ‘em be kids! I do vividly recall many adventures during the time others were in kindergarten–exploring the neighborhood, building things, reading a book while watching B&W TV and listening to Mother’s collection of records (while sitting in The Green Chair with our dachsund, she hanging her head over the heat register, pulling my Radio Flyer (yep, a real one) around the neighborhood hunting up bottles for return (my own candy money!), organizing a tin pan band with my even younger sibs, and much, much more I would have been robbed of by kindergarten.

Five was a great year.

Six was boring. The anesthetizing experience of school closed down so many avenues of adventure. Gone were the days of walking around for hours pretending to touch things with an ELEVEN-foot pole that I wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole; the fun stalking and abushing the neighbor’s cat (using Heidi, our dachsund as a lure–cat attacked Heidi, and I got to swoop to the rescue–fun!); the Fort was neglected–in my younger sibs’ hands *sigh*, etc.

My world went to hell in a handbasket when I entered “prisons for kids”.

Oh. Well. At least I got my own back with college and later inflicting prison for kids on inmates under my care…

At least, I don’t remember him being all that nice. Then, there was this stupid little shin-kicking boy that kicked me almost every recess. Arg!

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You ever get a tad frustrated when someone posts a darned good post (or an execrably bad one) and has comments turned off? No time to blog in depth right then, but really wanna comment?

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