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The Other Side of the Story: Links About CFLs

Oooookay.  In my previous post I listed several facts about Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs (CFLs).  I did not include links to support my claims because I was going to include them as part of my follow-up post explaining how to evaluate information.  Unfortunately...

Evaluating Information

In The Other Side of the Story, we talked about Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFLs) and the fact that while there are terrific advantages to using them, there are also disadvantages. My point in bringing the issue to you wasn’t to slam environmentalists, or...

The Other Side of the Story

How many of you have heard of Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs (CFLs)? Great. Now, how many of you have them in your home? Yes, uh-huh. Thanks. You may put your hands down now. Most likely, everyone has heard about the advantages of CFLs by now: even though the bulbs...

Living Up to the Nickname

I’m not really strongly invested in the boys learning to write with perfect penmanship.  Between keyboarding and advances in voice recognition software, I figure that actual writing will be a pretty small percentage of their day by the time they’re...

Stu’s Challenge: The 24 Hour Gift

This week at ForeverParenting, I respond to a challenge that Stu threw down in November to spend a day not correcting the children.  How do you think I did? Stu challenged us to spend a day not correcting our children a while back. Being that I take Stu pretty...