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Like a Mother Hen
Hosea 11:1-11
The Bible at times refers to the mothering nature of God. So on Mother's Day, I would like to explore with you how this portrayal of God can impact our daily lives. Let's listen to this startling imagery, which Jesus used to describe himself.
In this passage he is talking about the Kingdom of God and how God will gather people from the four corners of the earth to eat together in the Great Banquet. Some religious leaders warn him that he has become a threat to King Herod and the powers that be. Listen for Jesus' reply in Luke 13:29-35:
Prayer: Breathe on us, breath of God, fill us with your life anew that we may love all that you love and do what you would do. Amen.
One of the most striking images in the New Testament is the one Jesus uses here. Some Pharisees inform Jesus that King Herod will get rid of him if he keeps doing what he's doing. Jesus then notes that he is not in Jerusalem yet which is where the prophets die.
Yet his emotions rise for the city of Jerusalem, for its history, for its rich promise as a Light to all the nations, and for its people. Jesus laments, "How I'd love to gather you under my wings," he says, "but you would not be willing."
Here we see the Divine One portrayed as a Mother Hen. She flaps her wings to bid her chicks to come and find safety from the fox, that is, from the Herods of the world. Jesus the Messiah is set to save the people from all those who would destroy others for self gain and glory. Yet he uses the image of a female chicken in this battle he knows he must wage. This is hardly the "Clash of the Titans" kind of battle we are used to seeing.
Why would Jesus use such a surprising metaphor for himself in this battle between good and evil? Perhaps it might help if we consider that Jesus has drawn upon a tradition of scripture that portrays the mothering aspects of God's love that overcomes hatred and separation.
What are some examples of these? In Genesis when Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden of Eden, God makes clothing for them, protecting them in their banishment. That is the work of a homemaker who clothes her children.
Our passage in Hosea reveals a mother's aching heart for the people of Israel. Even though the disobedient people have rebelled against God and deserve God's anger, God reveals that non rational aspect of unconditional love. God is like a mother who remembers her child in infancy and as a toddler whom she taught to walk and delighted in. God acknowledges those bands of love that simply cannot let Israel go:
"How can I give you up? It was I who taught you to walk. I took you up in my arms; I healed you, led you with cords of human kindness, with bands of love. I bent down to you and fed you..." (Hosea 11:3-4).
Isaiah 49 paints God's relationship to Jerusalem in these mothering terms: "Can a woman forget her nursing child or show no compassion for the child of her womb?" Later in Isaiah God is shown as a mother comforting her infant:
"Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. See I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands." (Isaiah 49: 15-16) and later, "As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem." (Isaiah 66:13).
There is a tender, protective quality about this kind of relationship. It's like that kind of "I'm wild about you, kid, just because you are you. You haven't earned my love. It's just there. My heart lights up when I see you, when I think about you. My heart goes out to you..." If you have experienced that non- rational, affection for another, then maybe this begins to give a glimpse of the way that God loves us.
Our human experience of this kind of love is just a drop in the ocean of love that God shows in the face of Jesus. In Luke Jesus reveals God's searching, aching love as a mother hen who would gather all her chicks under her safe, protective wings. At the same time the mother hen can be quite fierce in guarding her young from the predators that stalk them. She will give her life to stand between danger and her chicks.
Have you ever thought about this kind of gathering, protective love that God reveals? It is one that reaches out. It warns against dangers. It is one that keeps the chicks close for their safety and welfare.
I also imagine this mothering force of God's love as a huge magnet. There is a great drawing force that keeps inviting people to turn to God and come back to the fold.
God has planted within us this kind of magnetic attraction; there is a deep yearning within us. And that yearning is a reflection of God's intense yearning for us to return to God, to live in the protective shadow of God's own wings. To allow ourselves to be loved as Jesus showed, that "Love Divine which is all compassion, joy of heaven to earth come down..."
Luke shows this intense, fierce, drawing, wooing kind of God revealed in Jesus. Yet at the same time, it also shows the tragic reality of life: the chicks do not respond to the calls, but go their own way. They are vulnerable to that fox, those Herods of the world, those destructive forces that would eat them alive. Yet they do not know that, or they deny that something like that can happen to them.
Most of us know what it's like to love someone who has turned away. Have you ever grieved in helpless frustration over someone you love who has made bad choices and suffered the consequences?
Perhaps most of us can relate to Jesus lamenting over a loved one or a friend who will not hear his warnings. Jesus looked at the city of Jerusalem and thought of all the people who gather there:
"...How often have I desired...how often have I longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings...and you were not willing!" (Luke 13:34)
And yet, I know from my own experience that there have been many times, however, when I don't hear that voice of love that calls me back to that safe, sacred space. Or rather, like those wayward chicks that the mother hen beckons to, I am not willing to stop and listen for that Voice of God in my life. I get busy with my own agendas and doing things but neglect that relationship that feeds my soul.
Or, have you found that times of discouragement can breed doubt and a dark outlook? You find yourself tuning out Christ's gentle signals to "come on home" to God? That's when the church, the Body of Christ, makes such a difference. Like a huge mother hen, it reaches out to comfort, to invite, to nourish, to challenge, to encourage growth, to gather and attract people into a loving relationship with God and others, to offer the meaning and purpose that people are longing to find.
How have you tasted that kind of magnetic love? Is it in a study or prayer group in which people share their experiences; you hear the soul of another speak, and something resonates deeply within you? Is it in the joyous generosity of people helping other people through the food bank or reaching out to foster care children and youth?
Do you find your heart "strangely warmed" by a phrase in a hymn? A new awareness wakened in one of the prayers? A new insight from the sermon or the warm welcome you see in the faces of others who extend the sign of Peace? Maybe you get a sense of God's magnetic love that goes beyond words when the music touches your soul?
How about those times when the youth lead the congregation in worship like last week?
God is the Great Attractor writes Barbara Brown Taylor. There is something planted in our souls like a homing device that responds to this magnetic pull. We cannot quite explain this. We simply have this holy longing. Then we discover that it is God's yearning for us. Like that homemaker who diligently searches for that lost coin or that father who runs to welcome the wayward prodigal home, so God keeps gathering us in and will not rest until we find ourselves in the place where we really belong in relationship with God and others and our own best selves.
So, take heart, those of us who realize how we have tuned out this call of God. Take heart, those who grieve over others who may be deaf to God's bidding. We can listen to the promise of Isaiah that God continues to woo people back:
"Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you; I will say to the north, 'Give them up' and to the south, 'Do not withhold; bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.'" (Isaiah 43:5-7)
Even though a mother hen image may seem weak in comparison to a destructive fox like Herod, God's wisdom prevails. It was not through force or violence that Christ overcame the dark, demonic forces of all that demeans human life and creation.
Rather, Christ, once again turned the whole world upside down by his willing obedience to God's greater plan. Jesus gave his whole life, his whole future, his own self to God, so that we may live and be gathered into God's plan of eternal life.
Christ used an unexpected image of a mother hen for himself and so he gently, yet powerfully, still calls out to us today.
May this Mother's Day be filled with that new birth into eternal life which Christ has won for all of us.
Thanks be to God in whom we live and move and have our being.
©Kate Thoresen 2010
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I've recently found myself in interesting discussions--one might call some of them debates--about ROI and Social Media. In recent weeks, Social Media ROI was the agenda for meetings with several clients, the focus of a panel on which I participated at Digiday Social, and a lively topic of discussion at a dinner of marketing leaders in town for the OMMA Global event. And today I read an article about Wal-Mart that got me to thinking about the dangers of too narrowly defining ROI.
It's interesting to hear the wide range of attitudes toward social media ROI. Some companies measure quite a bit about their social media activities but do not evaluate ROI in its most literal definition: The financial return generated by a specific monetary investment. Others go through a great deal of effort to measure ROI, creating complex models to calculate an approximation of financial return.
Some in the direct marketing space are beginning to value their social media efforts much as they do their PPC campaigns--assessing the cost of participation compared to the clicks, conversions and sales generated from trackable links seeded into tweets and Facebook posts. This sort of measurement is essential and inevitable for companies that sell direct to consumers, but it's important companies not become overly narrow and begin to assess social media as just another click-generating channel.
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I was on client calls most of the day, and when I came up for air in the afternoon to check my RSS reader and Tweetdeck to see what what going on in the world I made a fascinating discovery. Like many of you I came across the following post from the Google Analytics Blog:
This was most unexpected, and my Thursday suddenly got alot more interesting.
Before we go any further let me state that I have not been briefed by Google on this news item. This post is purely based on my own initial thoughts on the matter.
The blog post announces Google's plans to release a browser plug-in that would allow consumers to opt-out of Google Analytics tracking. This offering is still in development, and the post offers no specifics on the release date, although it implies that this is only weeks away.
(Side note: It is also interesting to note the language used in the post. The post leads with "As an enterprise-class web analytics solution..." This isn't a surprising or entirely inappropriate assertion, but it strongly implies Google's aspirations for GA.)
There are many reasons why Google's course of action is counterintuitive. Naturally, the marketer in me recoils at the idea of voluntarily allowing measurable data to slip through our hands. Rationalizing web analytics data is already hard enough, and now this? And we can certainly debate the true privacy impact of web analytics on consumers.
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President Ma has nominated 21 people to replace the Examination Yuan's president, vice president and 19 ministers without portfolio as the incumbents are about to conclude their six-year term.
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It's just after midday on a Wednesday. In the main gym a crowd of corporate types push themselves through a punishing circuit while, off in a side chamber, Puna is putting Harvey through his final paces ahead of his first MMA bout, scheduled for Saturday night on the North Shore.
For a first timer, Harvey looks dangerously competent. Up close, his striking power is impressive. When he talks to the Herald he's a ball of nervous energy, his right leg tapping furiously for the duration of the interview. It's hard to tell if its pre-fight nerves or discomfort at talking to a reporter at work, most likely a bit of both.
"I'm feeling pretty good," says Harvey. "On the day I'll be a bit nervous but I've been doing plenty of training and I am confident in my ability."
He has been at it only a couple of months but, if things go well, he'll pursue a career as a pro. He saw MMA on TV, tried a bit of ground fighting with Specforce owner Dan Temple and "fell in love with it". He doesn't know much about his opponent, other than that "he's a big Maori guy".
Harvey is fighting in the 100kg class but at around 92kg "he's too light", admits Puna. His opponent, Lyle Kerekere, is at least 100kg.
"He's not going to whinge about it," says Puna. "When you're used to shooting at people and getting shot at you're not going to whinge about giving away a few kilograms."
In West Auckland the following night, Steve Oliver is instructing a class of 13 men and three women in the finer points of Brazilian jiu-jitsu. The son of weightlifting legend Don, Oliver is a hulking figure who looks like he spends his spare time bending iron bars into amusing shapes.
He travelled the world as a BJJ fighter and trainer, and is now back at his Glen Eden home riding the wave of MMA's surging popularity. Among his students is John Vake, a smiling 21-year-old local with a swimmer's physique and impeccable manners.
A former college wrestler at Kelston Boys High, Vake is a ground and pound specialist.
"I try to break their will in a fight," he says, the smile never leaving his face. "Get them gassed, punch them out. There is nothing worse than getting tired and someone dropping elbows and punches from the top. Once I can break his will I can either get a stoppage or the submission will come."
In two days Vake will take on a Tahitian kick boxer with an impressive record. It will be his sixth fight and second as a pro. He's never lost, and doesn't expect that to change any time soon. He's not nervous, there's no time for that. "They are going to close the cage then you've got 15 minutes to do whatever you want to each other," he says. "When it's on it's work time. I feel like Muhammad Ali in there. That's the mentality I have to go in with, that I'm the greatest. The moment I second-guess myself will be the moment I lose."
Also fighting on Saturday night is 37-year-old transport manager Phil Brown. Fighting is a family affair for the Browns - Phil's sons Kaige (6) and Jaeden (7) are junior BJJ world champions. The training is getting harder and harder for Brown, who works a 60-70 hour week, but he still loves the fighting. He's 4-3 as an A-class amateur, but is looking to bounce back from a knockout defeat. In that contest his scheduled opponent pulled out, so he stepped up in class.
"I was doing pretty good, I thought," says Brown. "I went in for a takedown and got hit with a short right upper cut and it was all over. It was the first time I've been knocked out in the ring."
Brown estimates he was unconscious for 15 to 20 seconds, but described the experience as painless.
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The train arrived about 1 hour late in Chicago and when I put the suitcase in a locker I was informed I needed to be back by 2 pm to pick up the bag for my 3:30 train. Beats me why but I didn't want any trouble so with only 3 hours I skipped the Art Museum and walked around Chicago. It really is a interesting city to walk around with the river cutting through it and all the boat traffic there
The windy city was really windy the day I was there. It looked so nice out of the window of the train so I only wore my vest around town and I regretted that some. It was very sunny but what with the buildings and the wind off the lake it really was cool. But it wasn't to bad of walking weather and gave me a good reason to drop into Starbucks for the first time in 10 days. We stopped at one in Quebec but besides in New York that's the only one we saw. Can't say I missed it as the coffee shop on the Eurodam was really quite nice and served a very good non-fat mocha.
Got to the station, picked up my bag and caught the train to Galesburg with no problem but had there were no coach seats so I had to store my bag and sit in the lounge car. Actually it was nicer to sit there and read than in coach so that worked out well. It was a nice comfortable trip and I arrived about 30 minutes late, Bev was waiting for me for the ride to Odin IL to see my brother Wayne.


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Bend FD staging annual 'Santa Express'
With the downturn in the economy comes more need for support of local food banks and charities, and The Salvation Army is no different.
In 2012, The Salvation Army and Santa Express collected 3,611 lbs. of food and new clothing, 179 new toys and $147.00 in cash donations for Christmas celebration.
Anything and everything helps, even if its one can of food or a small toy, that donation will go a long ways to providing a good dinner and a nice gift on Christmas and a smile on a child's face Christmas morning.
The Salvation Army would like to express the need for gifts to be given to teenage kids as well. Please partner with Bend Fire Department in showing the community they are not forgotten this holiday season.
Bend Fire Department's Santa Express food and clothing drive is heading into Bend neighborhoods Monday, December 2rd through Thursday, December 5th. The Bend Firefighter's Association and Bend Fire Department are working with The Salvation Army to collect non-perishable food items, clothing, and toys(new toys are preferred) for families in need in the Bend and Central Oregon area. Neighborhood residents are encouraged to listen for the fire engine and Santa, and bring donations to the street for collection. There will be many volunteers walking along with Santa and the fire engines to collect the donated items. Please advise children to use caution around the moving fire engines.
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(maps are available on the City of Bend website- www.bendoregon.gov
Monday, December 2: Morning Star, Canal View, Wishing Well and Phoenix Park
Tuesday, December 3: Providence, areas North and South of Neff Road.
Wednesday, December 4: 13th, Harmon, Albany, Milwaukee
Thursday, December 5: Larkspur, Foxborough and Elkhorn
If we don't come through your neighborhood you can always drop off non-perishable foods, new toys or clothing to:
- Bend Fire Department Fire Stations - Boxes will be placed as of Monday November 18, 2013 and will be there until Friday December 14, 2013
- Bend Memorial Clinics – Westside on Mt. Bachelor Drive and Eastside on Neff Road
- City of Bend City Hall - 710 NW Wall St.
- City of Bend Public Works - Boyd – 62975 Boyd Acres
- City of Bend Public Works - Pilot Butte- 575 NE 15th St.
- City of Bend Police – 555 NE 15th St.
- Ed Wyse Beauty Supply – 1180 S Hwy 97 #B (They are providing discounts off of purchases with a donation through the first of December)
- Pappy's Pizza – 20265 Fred Meyer Rd.
- Red Robin- 625 SW Powerhouse Dr.
- The Salvation Army – 515 NE Dekalb Ave.
- Starbucks – Westside on Century Dr., Downtown, across from Fred Meyers, Cascade Village Shopping Center and East side on 27th St.
- Wholesale Sports – 63492 Hunnell Rd.
Thanks ahead of time from Bend Firefighters Association, Bend Fire Department, and The Salvation Army for helping families in need this holiday season. If you need help for this holiday season with food or presents, please call The Salvation Army at 541-389-8888.


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'James Bond' Actor Sir Roger Moore Dies At 89
According to his children, Moore passed away in Switzerland after a "short but brave" battle with cancer.
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LaVar Ball is now selling t-shirts with the slogan "Stay In Yo Lane" after his now infamous interaction with Fox personality Kristine Leahy.
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The Republican bill to repeal Obamacare would result in 23 million fewer people having health insurance by the year 2026, according to a long-awaited and nonpartisan forecast, upending the healthcare system and scrambling insurance markets.
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A 53-year-old woman was shot and killed while driving in Chicago, a 19-year-old man inside the car had also sustained gunshot wounds.
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If you haven't yet heard, the so-called "liberal media" is out to get Herman Cain.
To believe conservatives, members of a "liberal media" cabal began conspiring to take down the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza more than a decade ago when he was head lobbyist at the National Restaurant Association in the late 1990s knowing he'd seek the 2012 Republican nomination.
It was then that two women were planted deep inside Cain's organization with the expressed purpose of accusing their boss of sexual harassment. Adding to the devious plot, these women were then told to accept large cash settlements in exchange for silence that was only to be broken years later when the women would come forward as anonymous sources to the "liberal media."
The only thing more ridiculous with that theory is the racially charged, political hysterics with which the right wing responded to the brewing scandal.
Brent Bozell, head of the conservative Media Research Center, wrote in a blog post: "In the eyes of the liberal media, Herman Cain is just another uppity black American who has had the audacity to leave the liberal plantation."
Not to be outdone, right-wing author Ann Coulter attempted to defended Cain against attacks from the left saying they hate black conservatives and that "our blacks are so much better than their blacks." How that line of thinking proves Cain's innocence is anyone's guess.
If the fact that Herman Cain is African-American was going to be lost on anyone, it wasn't going to be Rush Limbaugh. Cain's race made this a perfect story for El Rushbo. After all, this is a guy who sees race everywhere. Among other things, he's called Obama a "Halfrican-American" and said the President's "entire economic program is reparations."
So what did the king of conservative talk radio have to say?
He attacked the messenger saying Politico, which initially reported the scandal, had made an "unconscionable, racially stereotypical attack" and engaged in "the politics of minority conservative personal destruction." He then zeroed in, saying, "It really is about blacks and Hispanics getting too uppity."
Putting their absurd attempts to deflect attention from the story aside, let's look at the facts. And yes, I realize conservatives assume facts have an intrinsic liberal bias just like the media, science, weather, letters, numbers, and shapes.
At 11:20am on Monday morning, Cain told Fox News, "If the restaurant did a settlement, I wasn't even aware of it." That is essentially the same thing he told the National Press Club not two hours later when he said, "I am unaware of any settlement. I hope it wasn't for much, because I didn't do anything" indicating that he not only had no knowledge of any agreements but that he also had no knowledge of the amount of any agreements if they actually existed.
By 6pm that evening, Cain's story was beginning to change. This time he told PBS, "I was aware that an agreement was reached."
Before calling it a night, Cain appeared on Fox News again at 10pm to completely contradict himself saying, "We ended up settling for what would have been a termination settlement, quite frankly … Maybe three months' salary or something like that."
In less than twelve hours, Cain went from being clueless about the whole affair — pardon the pun — to knowing quite a bit more than he'd let on about.
Don't for a second assume that Cain and his team first heard about these accusations when they read them in Politico — they had been contacted several times over the course of nearly two weeks in advance of the publication of the story by reporters requesting comment in writing and in person.
Since the story broke, a third woman has come forward, telling the Associated Press that she had received "a private invitation to [Cain's] corporate apartment" and that the future presidential candidate had made "sexually suggestive remarks or gestures" towards her.
Few people know exactly what happened between Cain and his female employees and only one person has been free to discuss the story openly: Herman Cain.
Since Cain has proven himself unreliable, perhaps the National Restaurant Association should free these women from their confidentiality agreements so they can tell their side of the story.
Then, and only then, can this blame game end.
Because, in the end, Herman Cain's problem is less about some fictional "liberal media" and more that he's gone through less vetting than the average Godfather's Pizza delivery boy.
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Original post made by a parent, Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Oct 20, 2010
I don't have a problem with kids who really, truly are not emotionally ready for school being held back -- and I do know a few of those and it's a good thing -- but when parents hold their kids back for a perceived sports advantage from being larger, or so that they can brag on how advanced they think their kid is (without having to ever compare the kid to those closer to the same age) or so the kid can learn to be assertive by bullying kids that are a year, year-and-a-half, sometimes closer to two years younger, that's a problem for the rest of the kids, especially the younger ones.
If parents want to hold their kids back so long without any objective reason, I'd like to see the schools group the older kids together. From what I've observed, problems arise based on larger age differentials, more so than the absolute ages of the kids.
I keep seeing parents of perfectly smart, well-adjusted but younger kids being pressured to hold them back because teachers compare the kid to others who are so much older, bigger, and more advanced developmentally. When I say "younger", I mean sometimes right in the middle of the age range ("summer boys") per state guidelines.
I'd like to say right here that most of these "younger kids" are perfectly ready for school, the academic environment, the social environment -- what they aren't handling well is being pushed around by kids a year to two years older, who tend to gravitate to one another and push the other kids around, physically and verbally.
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on Oct 20, 2010 at 10:18 am
The kindergarten cut off date has just been changed. This will not alleviate the "my kid is too young for kindergarten" just shift the birthday of the younger kids. There will always be kids who are 12 months apart in kindergarten and often more because someone feels that their kid is not ready.
Keeping a kid back should be rare and it should be decided by kindergarten professionals, not parents. If a parent feels that their child is not ready then they need to get a professional to test for readiness.
People keeping their kids back for sport advantages is wrong. We all know that, but it happens. The parents will never admit it, but it happens. Sports should be on ages not on grade levels. Read the book "Outliers" to see about the advantage of being born in the first few months of the year for professional hockey players. It also happens in other sports at every type of level.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Oct 20, 2010 at 10:50 am
chee, we really ARE from different neighborhoods.
We are also not from the parents sports world.
Yet I would state in my experience there have often been in past too many "too young" kids that parents have persuaded the district to admit. In fact, several parents told me they are here in this district for precisely this reason. Another key district refused to admit their kid, so they moved to Palo Alto. It seems to be a point of pride at PALY that their kids graduate on the early side, age-wise (though they usually also have a lot of tutoring on the side).
a resident of Leland Manor/Garland Drive
on Oct 20, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Once the kids are past Kindergarten they are out on the playground all together. All first through fifth graders play together at recess and at lunch. At Walter Hays this means approximately 450 kids running around together. The age range in one class no longer applies. If a kid has bullying tendencies they'll come out on the playground with whoever is allowed to be bullied.
I held my daughter back in part to give her the confidence she needed to stand up to bullies, but she will never be a bully. I found out very quickly that just holding them back a year does not change them from a follower into a leader. It does not change their personality. It gives them one more year of emotional and physical development. Something they should have had going into Kindergarten but the state did not think was appropriate at the time. I'm glad the state has since reconsidered thanks to the hard work of our Palo Alto teachers and Senator Simitian.
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on Oct 20, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Times have changed. You are correct, it USED TO BE the fashion to send kids to school early. Now it is the fad to send them late out of a perceived advantage. If there is an advantage for kids to be a lot older, it's not really fair to the rest of the kids in that grade, is it? Regardless, all the bullies at school seem to be these redshirted boys.
I have not seen Walter Hayes and maybe your experience is true, that the kids all run around in a big 450kid pack, but I have never seen that in my life.
I am definitely with Resident. I think there are kids who need to stay back, and your daughter may be one of them, but they are much rarer than is happening in our district.
Maybe your daughter would never be a bully no matter her age or physical advantage, but what I'm seeing in school is that the ones who bully are all the redshirted boys ganging up on younger kids. (I'm not saying all the redshirted boys bully, I'm saying all the bullies I see are redshirted boys, I can't even think of one exception, except maybe on or two redshirted girls.)
I think there is far too little examination of this phenomenon and how it impacts the rest of the kids who are playing "by the rules". I think if the district is going to allow this -- instead of limiting it to those who really developmentally need it -- they have a responsibility to mitigate the negative impact on the other kids. They should group the older kids in the same class, maybe even call it the older class. As I said, the absolute age doesn't seem to be the issue so much as the age differential. When the kids are all pretty close to the same age, whether it's on the younger side or the older side, there seem to be fewer problems.
a resident of Leland Manor/Garland Drive
on Oct 20, 2010 at 4:53 pm
In my experience, the kids who bully have learned that behavior from someone else. Either an older sibling or a parent. Many of the kids who I have been told about that have been bullying are actually younger siblings with spring birthdays.
One of the biggest problems I see around the issue is the lack of supervision on the playground. The schools are way too big for one or two yard duty to be supervising 400+ kids. You can't stop bullying if you can't see it happening.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 20, 2010 at 6:42 pm
With all due respect, what happens on the playground is just one manifestation of relationships that develop in school.
I'll put this as nicely as I can, Erin, but I've seen your posts on other school issues, and you have a tendency to write as if everything you observe and think is exactly how the world is and have no room for any facts or experiences or even studies beyond your experience or that don't agree. You've stated your experience, fine. It doesn't jive with mine. Your points don't in any way address the issues I'm bringing up, either, and you have already stated your bias because you held your daughter back.
You're talking about kids you've been "told about", well I'm writing about bullying I have seen firsthand, over several years, and it's to a one redshirted boys, not all of them younger siblings, not all of them with any siblings. There's also a lot of aggressive and dominating behavior by redshirted boys that doesn't meet the standard of bullying but is hurtful to other kids nevertheless. It's too easy to form an older boy clique, because they are older and have more in common -- and it becomes easy to pick on the younger kids.
You held your daughter back because you clearly think there are issues relating to age and the social environment. Why wouldn't you want what you feel instinctively and reacted on for your own child to be examined and better understood?
I'll state again, there is far too little examination of this redshirting phenomenon and how it impacts the rest of the kids who are playing "by the rules". I think if the district is going to allow this -- instead of limiting it to those who really developmentally need to start later -- they have a responsibility to understand and mitigate negative impacts on the other kids.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 21, 2010 at 1:19 am
If so many people think there is something so significant about the age of their own child relative to others that they will hold their child back til they are a year or two older than the other kids, you don't think that's worth examining for the effect on the other kids?
I've been seeing bullying now for several years at the elementary level, and it's pretty much the redshirted kids doing the bullying. (Note again -- not all redshirted kids are bullies, but the bullies tend to be the redshirted kids.) This made me wonder what work had been done to look at the effect of this redshirting on other kids, and lo-and-behold, our district hasn't looked into this at all.
I think the issue should be studied, so that Erin's generalizing, or mine if that's what you think, aren't the last word on this issue. The kids deserve better than that. (Certainly better than flip posts, too.)
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 21, 2010 at 1:42 am
There is a lot of stuff online about redshirting and the effect on the redshirted child, but I can't find anything at all about the effect on the classroom or the other kids of having a lot of redshirted kids and a large age disparity. I have seen a number of anecdotes -- different states, different schools -- moms noting redshirted boys being bullies...
The studies do note that redshirted boys do tend to have more "behavioral" problems when they get older. What kind of behavioral problems, and is it only just noticed when they get older?
This has become such a major phenomenon, where are the studies on the effects of this on the other kids?
a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on Oct 21, 2010 at 8:09 am
I have not found bullies to be only "redshirt" boys.
In my experience, elementary bullies were some older boys (maybe redshirt) and the really little "napoleon" boys. The female bullies were the really good athletes and queen bees, no particular age, but usually physically large and quick witted (girls are not usually physical when bullying).
Middle school bullies - mostly boys who are feel (and are?) academically or financially inferior. Girls - volleyball players being the coolest girls and therefore the meanest. The most well developed with the coolest clothes get to be queen bees.
Many of the kids bully for the attention - negative attention is better than no attention. What surprised me was the parents that thought it was perfectly ok for their child to be a bully.
a resident of another community
on Oct 26, 2010 at 6:55 am
This doesn't have to do with bullying, but another reason some parents have for redshirting is that in many states, the cutoff date for kindergarten is much earlier. If parents foresee that they may move to another state (or that their child may eventually attend college in another state), they may prefer that their kid be the same age as the kids he's going to be with in the future. A kid who's the oldest (or one of the oldest) in a California kindergarten class will be right in the middle in many other states.
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