By Patricia Fosarelli, M.D. In the last 30 years, television has become a pervasive part of our lives. Children, especially, are attracted by its magic. Children in the United States watch an...
Watch me! Watch me! Watch me!
> Watch me run . . . skip . . . play . . . > Watch me make these pigeons fly . . . make the earth trade places with sky! I ride . .. the wind sings . . . > I'm in charge of things in my...
My world stretches out
When I leave my house, my world stretches out around me. People are in my world. I like to know what they are doing, so I walk around my block. I smell cookies baking. I hear boys and girls...
The me that I can see
It's fun to watch myself in a mirror. A mirror shows me what I look like. A mirror helps me learn about myself. It's fun to play in front of a mirror. I can make up a poem about that: In the mirror...
KING ON THE COAST
> Sea lions sun themselves on a rocky shore near Florence, Oregon. He sits on a rock throne in the center of a cave and barks and bellows and growls. He is the grumpy sea-lion king who rules over...
A window on the world
Long ago, people didn't get much news. They never even knew what happened a few miles away---unless someone who had been there told them. That was the only way to get news---someone had to tell you....
Piece by piece
> Japanese, working on an assembly line, put television sets together > piece by piece. "We make small things in a big way." That's what Swiss factory workers say. Watches are one of the small...
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer...