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Yesterday was a fairly lazy one ~ I had to get up early to make sure that the middling child was out the door for her 6 a.m. appointment for a pulled muscle (just before the provincial play-offs), then the usual rolling of peeps out of bed at their staggered times, get the dry cleaning by 8:30 a.m. and then blah blah blah before meeting up for coffee with a friend.

We'd been trying to grabba java since December and apparently our planets were aligned :3

By the time I got home I could do the domestic waltz at a leisurely pace before grabbing the sprog from school, getting a quick nosh in him and heading out for his swimming lesson where cracked open into Gerard Jone's Killing Monsters:Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence




I've had this book on the shelf for a while but have been avoiding it because the type is ridiculously small. My eyes glaze over starting at the print and I am left wondering why any editor would choose to do that to potential readers. I was hopelessly casting about for something to read before dashing out the door to the swim complex ~ where I would have an hour to kill waiting. It's laughable considering the sheer number of books I have collected around me that I could say I have nothing to read ~ but I couldn't pull together enough synaptic activity to make a satisfying choice.

SO I just grabbed the closest volume that came to hand on my way out the door....and it was a pleasant surprise to find it engaging enough to distract me from the micro-type.

Why did I choose to put this thing on my *to read list* in the first place? I suspect it was a combination of wanting to get inside my son's headspace (boys are just ....different) as well as stroking the fact that I don't entirely buy into the idea that: violent entertainment = criminal minds...and wanting to know if I'm way off base in that regard.

Anyone who has ever raised a boy (or spent time with them) will note that even if you kept your child isolated from media influences (and good luck with that) they will STILL pick up sticks to bash things and growl like little savages. Boys are not generally wired for fluffy fantasy play....so why do people spend so much time trying to rewire them into girls, and is there any value in shoving that square peg into a round hole?

I suspect this is going to be a read where I sit smuggly nodding as my personal suspicions and beliefs are reaffirmed from one chapter to the next.

As for the photos....I was playing with the camera & tulips and thought Su would look amongst the firey petals. I think..I was right. :)