Thinking about your age, experience, wisdom, big heart, curiosity and the people you love would actually be a good start if you are looking for your beauty. As a 65-year-old woman, I can tell you: Having extreme surgery is certainly not a new way to “critique” the work of beauty, the inevitability of aging, and the impossible bind” in which all older women find themselves. Jennifer Weiner writes, “I’d like to think that our era’s greatest chameleon, a woman who has always been intentional about her reinvention, was doing something slyer, more subversive, by serving us both a new - if not necessarily improved - face and a side of critique about the work of beauty, the inevitability of aging, and the impossible bind in which older female celebrities find themselves.” To see more women aging naturally in the media spotlight would be the definition of a trailblazing and daring example to set. Weiner quotes Madonna as saying, “I am happy to do the trailblazing so that all the women behind me can have an easier time in the years to come.” I am curious, how does this represent trailblazing?Ĭosmetic surgery for approval or attention, even self-approval, seems less like trailblazing and more like objectification. Re “ Madonna’s New Face Is a Brilliant Provocation,” by Jennifer Weiner (Opinion guest essay, Feb. While my suggestion is no panacea, it’s a small step in the right direction. I work one on one with a child designated by the teacher. I recently did so and now provide reading assistance to kindergartners three days a week as a volunteer. If your readers would like to know what they can personally do about the situation, I offer a suggestion from personal experience as a retired senior citizen.Ĭontact your local school district and offer your time to read to children in school. I applaud Nicholas Kristof’s column on the state of reading in our schools today. And let them see you reading too.Ĭarol Weston New York The writer is an advice columnist and an author of books for young people. In short, if we want our kids to read, let’s read with them, and make it joyful. Books are gifts that children can open again and again. Going to a baby shower or birthday party? A bookseller can help you select something perfect that will outlast bibs or clothes. Librarians can help you pick out ideal age-appropriate books - our tax dollars at work.
“Goodnight Moon,” “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” and “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” - I loved reading these classics to my daughters, and I love reading them now to my grandsons. It’s a win-win when parents, grandparents or caregivers snuggle up with a child and turn the pages of board books or picture books or alphabet books or singalongs at whatever pace the toddler prefers. The writer is the dean of the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences at the University of Tennessee.Įxperts grapple with phonics and “effective reading instruction,” but the best way to encourage kids to read is to read to them. It’s terrific to see new teacher educators embrace the science, but it may still be years before all teachers are prepared in the ways we know from science will help more children learn to read.Įllen McIntyre Knoxville, Tenn. But that report is now decades old, and there is still much work to do. The report made it unequivocally clear that systematic, explicit phonics is a foundation for teaching children to read. It took a government-formed National Reading Panel to publish its findings in 2000 on effective reading instruction for me to wake up and change my practices. I was one of those teacher educators preparing teachers using practices popularized by a few passionate leaders whose work had little grounding in the highest quality research. Journalists like Nicholas Kristof and Emily Hanford, whose podcast he writes about, have helped many parents, teachers and teacher educators understand how wrong reading instruction has been for decades.
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