Adventures in La La Land

Apparently these weekly blog posts have become biweekly. (Or is it bimonthly? I've never understood the difference.) I didn't even mean to skip last week. I was just super busy and super exhausted! Let's see if I can make up for it tonight . . . 1. I finished The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt and loved  it.  Seriously, I could gush about it for hours (and some of you have been recipients of that in person - lol). It's written by a self-proclaimed atheist, and refers heavily to evolution, but the research he's done and the conclusions he's drawn are so important! The research clearly shows that unfettered access to the internet (specifically social media, pornography, and video games) is destroying  the next generation. Suicide rates are through the roof, depression and anxiety are reaching epidemic status, and teenagers are not growing up - remaining, instead, perpetual adolescents. The constant onslaught of stimulation has created a generation of kids t...

1. I love working at a school, because kids say the darndest things. I can only imagine the stories teachers have, because I'm with students for a much shorter amount of time per week, but still have some excellent blog fodder. A couple weeks ago, I went down to the second grade classroom to get their library books, and started walking out with my arms full when a girl exclaimed, "Do you work out?!" I'm not sure if she assumed I'm into fitness because of the strength necessary to carry all those books or because of my fit bod, but I took it as a compliment anyway. Never fear, though, before I could let it go to my head, my own child brought me back to reality. I was wearing ankle jeans and my HeyDudes, and Lucy said with a sneer, "You either need longer pants or taller shoes. You have old lady ankles." 🤷 I'm still not sure what constitutes old lady ankles, but I am  an old lady, so it tracks.  A few days later, a little girl was looking at my ID bad...