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Colossians 3:21 (WEB) - Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

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[amiluu]

Hello everyone! 🙂

I had a brilliant launch last week on Thursday 7th and Saturday 9th December! I want to thank everyone who attended and who purchased a copy of Microbes!

On Thursday 7th I had two Year 5 classes from a local school join me for Microbes-packed fun. They participated in science experiments where we inflated balloons with carbon dioxide produced by yeast, made “germs” scatter, collected bacteria to grow in petri dishes and made some SLIME!

  After the experiments, we had a Q&A session followed by me signing and doodling in purchased copies of Microbes.

Saturday 9th was a more relaxed event, where parents and children both got involved. There was plenty of colouring in of different Microbes characters, and fun using a USB microscope to see amazing detail of tiny objects, such as pennies. I also performed demonstrations of the science experiments, talked to parents about the book and answered questions.

I’m delighted to have been given the opportunity to share Microbes with everyone and celebrate its launch. I have had a wonderful time connecting with many people and receiving incredible positive responses. I want to thank Thunderstone Books for allowing me to share Microbes with the world and for their continual help and commitment to the book, to Didsbury Library for allowing me to use their space, to St.Catherine’s Catholic Primary School for getting involved and celebrating the launch with me, to my family and my partner Joshua for their help and support, and to everyone who has so far purchased a copy of Microbes!

If you haven’t yet got a copy, but would like to purchase one you can find Microbes on Amazon, Waterstone’s and my publisher’s website Thunderstone Books.

Thanks everyone! 🙂

Amy

Microbes Book Launch Hello everyone! 🙂 I had a brilliant launch last week on Thursday 7th and Saturday 9th December!

[thewelldressedbranch]

Only Take Care

Step Carefully This is great advice for any age, even though when this was issued it wasn’t advice; it was a command. Here’s the whole verse: Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children. And yes, I…

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This song was written and composed by Trass. Listen to more of his music here: https://soundcloud.com/trass84 This music was composed for billies (also the artist of this beautiful picture.) Find out more about billies here: http://birries.tumblr.com/tagged/thesis I'm very excited to be working on this project! Keep your eyes open and follow billies tumblr.

[tonyhall]

The Politics of Play Jay Griffiths

"Indigenous philosophies of childhood overwhelmingly agree on one thing: that a child should not be forced into obedience but should have liberty of body, mind, and will. Inuit children have traditionally experienced extraordinary freedom and would become “self-reliant, caring, and self-controlled individuals,” an Inuit person I met in Nunavut told me. By the age of ten, their self-control is “almost infallible,” according to anthropologist Jean L. Briggs. Similarly, Amazonian myths place huge importance on self-restraint and self-discipline. Fairy tales seem to teach the same message, according to psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim: at the end of the tale, the child has “become an autocrat in the best sense of the word—a self-ruler . . . not a person who rules over others.” Far from creating selfish brats or Goldingesque monsters, this philosophy emphasizes that the corollary of liberty is self-control. When children are both allowed their will and encouraged to control themselves, community is well-served."

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/7379