Yesterday, I took a long lunch and joined more than a million others Downtown for a parade honoring the San Francisco Giants baseball team that beat the Texas Rangers to win the World Series. I wasn’t there alone, however; I, like many others, pulled my kids out of school to join the throngs of screaming fans. Now, why would I, one who is known for dismissing team sports, choose such an event over my kids’ education, especially since I value learning and knowledge as much as I shun sports?
Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category
Coming Together With Kids
Thursday, November 4th, 2010A Farewell To Adventure
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
San Francisco’s Stern Grove is a very special place for our family. It is a place of beginnings and endings. It is a place to share and to learn. The Grove is one of San Francisco’s great treasures. I got married there and mourned the passing of my father there. Both my wife and I have performed there and enjoyed many a summer concert with friends and family. I taught swimming just across the street under the expert eye of the great Charlie Sava, at the pool that now bears his name. I’ve even gotten my hair cut in the grove, back stage, during a performance by the San Francisco Opera. But perhaps the fondest memories I have of Stern Grove are the earliest.
Four-Letter Television Coming Soon
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Like a lot of parents, I suspect, I try to curtail my use of obscenities when the kids are around. I’m not always successful, but I do try. It’s not that I think that hearing certain words will somehow turn them evil; it’s that I’d just as soon my kids weren’t introduced to such language and such a young age. I’m not going to completely shield them from rough language, but I’ll do my best to avoid adding to what they do encounter. Especially since, in the future, they may be encountering swearing somewhere they hadn’t previously: on television.
Rated E for Exempt
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Most parents filter the movies their kids get to see. Depending on what is important to them, parents will mark movies off-limits due to sex, violence, or other adult topics, using such resources as the MPAA guidelines or ratings from sites such as Kids-in-Mind. However parents judge a movie’s suitability, though, and despite its nearly continuous violence, there is one film that seems to get a free pass onto the screens of almost any young boy. The question is, can a movie be deemed so socially significant, so culturally important, and so much a classic that it is exempt from normal restrictions?
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