AH> RE: New friends
 AH> BY: Eileen O'Croinan to Alinda Harrison on Mon May 20 1996 23:50:16
 AH> Ah, yes, Star Trek, Dr. Who, PBS programming...shows that actually make  
AH> you think! That's what most of the tv watched in our house 
 AH> is comprised of. One
 AH> show that keeps the attention of my ADHD 7 year old is, believe it or 
not,
 AH> The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross. She wants to be an artist, like he 
was,
 AH> when she grows up. I'm trying to channel that into actual marketable
 AH> skills...so she can also eat when she grows up ;)
Investigate the chance of working a local flea market -- she can sell 
anything she can make which has a professional quality (with a sensible 
price-tag) and there are lots of math and bookkeeping skills involved, as 
well as interpersonal abilities.
 AH> Another thing that keeps their attention is anime, that is Japanese
 AH> animation. Much of what we have is actually in Japanese 
 AH> with subtitles. It's
 AH> good reading practice for them...they must learn to read it faster, 
before
 AH> the next line takes its place on the screen...yes, they actually enjoy
 AH> watching the shows that way :)
Hooray!  If you're discussing sexual responsibility with them, try to find a 
movie titled _Til Marriage Do Us Part_ -- it's Italian, with subtitles (ages 
12 and up, from -my- viewing of it at age 15 and laughing my butt off).  The 
storyline revolves around the rich young woman who falls in love with the son 
of her father's best friend (possible poor relation), and has the wedding 
reception interrupted by news from a nunnery where her mother has been 
secluded...  "Don't marry him, he's your brother!"  Well, they choose to 
remain legally married, without ever consummating i ...  The timeline is in 
the late 19th century, and the story touches on fidelity, hetrosexuality, 
homosexuality -- and most of the subtitles are in a wide variety of 
"tongue-in-cheek" slang.
A good movie for opening up for dicussions of personal sexuality, sexual 
responsibility, and the differences programmed into people because of 
cultural standards, as well as the differences between living at the turn of 
the last century and the turn of this one...
B*B!
Eileen
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