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Pro Homeschooling Documentary, Not so Pro Christian?

If you are a long time reader of Communication FUNdamentals, you will recall that about a year ago our family had agreed to be filmed for a documentary that a USC grad student was doing on homeschooling for a local cable TV and internet show.  I have to admit being a bit nervous about whether or not a positive image of my family and homeschooling in general would survive the cutting room floor. Since we are members of HSLDA, I called and spoke with Michael Smith to ask his advice.  He shared a story with me about how his words had been twisted in an interview by the editing process but that, in his opinion, any publicity for homeschooling is...

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Foot in Mouth Disease

You've all heard the expression, "Open mouth; insert foot!" I call it Foot in Mouth Disease and feet are the delicacy of FIMM: Foot in Mouth Man.  But FIMM is so funny precisely because we all can relate. We have all been FIMMpersonators at one time or another.  It's just that FIMM sticks his foot in his mouth so often he has Athlete's Tongue! There is a story floating around the internet that the Arizona Republic was supposed to have reported.  I cannot find the original story, but that is not unusual as I have been known to search Google for "pickles" and end up with information on juice boxes! The story is about a man named Terry Mikel who...

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Question of the WK: How do you say ORANGE?

How it works: Each Monday I ask a thought provoking question about life.  Pose the same question to your blog readers on your own blog along with your answer to the question.  Then come back here and post a comment with a link to your blog post so we can all read everyone’s answers!  It's been a lot of fun getting to know my readers and their readers and so on and so on... This week’s question: Ok this week's not as thought provoking but it is FUN!  How do you say ORANGE?  Would an AHRENJ by any other name taste as sweet? JoJo’s Answer: Until a few months ago, my kids were raised in Southern California where everyone pronounces...

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12y/o's Abortion Speech: "A person's a person no matter how small!"

This is 12 y/o Lia from Canada.  After initially being disqualified because her topic was Abortion and she mentioned the Creator in her speech, she is the winner of her school's speech contest.  It is an excellent speech using not only good debate points but she is gracious in doing so.  I love the ending as she quotes from Horton Hears a Who, "After all, a person's a person no matter how small!"

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Pride Goeth Before the Blog Gremlins

After taking quite the many days to get my new blog just exactly the way I wanted it, I was so proud of myself that I posted my naive exuberance here on Communication FUNdamentals to many congratulations and At-A-Gals!  Immediately following, I posted another few blog posts  that somehow, without provocation, caused most of my blog to enter the Witness Protection Program becoming invisible to the naked eye when viewed by those with Internet Explorer (IE). As many of you know, JoJo don’t know HTML so, if kicking my computer doesn’t fix the problem, I’m at a loss!  I turned to those more Technologically Savvy than I and was told the following: 1.    My habit of copying and pasting from...

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