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Before Bedtime and Challenge for sober parents : NYT News

When you change the clocks to spring forward on Sunday, your circadian rhythms may be a little out of whack.

Perri Klass writes about new research on how sensitive kids’ eyes are to bright light before bedtime. The researchers suggest minimizing light exposure – even briefly, as when your kid pops up for those endless bedtime “curtain calls.”

Liz Tracy writes about the challenge for sober parents to find ways to socialize and unwind in a wine-mom world.

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10 Lessons to Learn from Tom and Jerry

Go back memory lane to childhood days. 78 + years of Tom and Jerry: How this cat and mouse game played out over the years. Our love for Tom and Jerry is alive as we watch the Cartoon show with our Grand children. Tom and Jerry is more of a routine to watch the comic cartoon series. They ran after each other for their lives, but at the same time they were best of friends too.

Always thrilling and on a joy ride with so much fun to watch the hide n seek game of Tom and Jerry. Sometimes, Parenting is Panic, sometimes Fun. Sometimes struggle n strife. And sometimes, rosy n sweet. Or maybe scary when they have a cranky child. The trick of staying Happy, staying wise is to brush off the blues and Laugh. Together watching the fun Cartoons lightens the heart and brings relationship closer.

Think deeper and the message with Tom and Jerry cartoons is visible which teach important lessons as : 

1. We fight more with people we love

Tom and Jerry continously keep fighting. Be it small fights where Tom will chase Jerry for disturbing his sleep to big fights where Tom landed in trouble because of the mouse – Ultimately, at the end of the day, they are good FRIENDS.

So, forgive and forget – just know the worth of friendship.

2. Trust

Tom and Jerry’s bond of friendship has been built on love and trust. They are mischievous and performed nasty but did trust each other and hence the hide n seek game. Best pranks are played on person you trust. The lesson we learn is

Trust your loved ones and if your friend is genuine, you are blessed with a value friend or even learn some great things.

3. Confidence is the key to friendship

Jerry in all the episodes is full of confidence. Tip toed she will play the mischief and turns to a big cat but when chased, runs like a deer – timidly hides to safe place. Hence, Confidence helps one win in the difficult circumstances.

4. Size matters? Not at all !

Don’t under-estimate the Power of Tiny. Jerry was tiny but fearless and ready to fight out the powerful Tom. Jerry outwitted Tom and there’s a lesson to understand – Be cool, calm, composed and use your wits. Even the powerful can fall

apart.

5. Team spirit

Tom and Jerry always had fights But as we see, in many cases, they unite when they face a common enemy and together form a strong team. As the saying goes, ‘United we Stand, divided we fall’, Tom and Jerry teaches us lessons of Team-

work and compassion too.

6. Learn from mistakes

Tom never used the same techniques to trap Jerry. If he failed, he will change his tricks next time to trap Jerry. As Thomas Edison said, “I came to know about 999 ways which won’t work.” Hence, making mistakes is a part of live but

repeating them is foolishness. Therefore, learn from your mistakes.

7. Sharing and caring

Tom and Jerry were worst of enemies but at the same they shared their emotions. None of them can see the other one sad and hence always tried to keep the other one happy. It teaches a lesson – Give caring a Chance. It will make the

other person happy and this will make you happy.

8. Lifelong friendship

The gift of friendship is valuable and most treasured gift. Tom and Jerry stayed together – in good times, in bad times, forever. Like the song says, “In good times, in bad times, I’ll be there for you forever” value the importance of

relations in your life. They mean a lot.

9. What goes around comes around

As the saying, ‘What goes around, Comes around’ Tom makes devious plans for Jerry, only to fall prey to his own schemes. Hence, Trust in karma and do good. Expectations always dooms.

10. Life throws challenges

Tom and Jerry is full of action. Both face challenges in their own way and find a way to overcome the challenge. A lesson we learn is that what may come, face the challenges in life as you continuously juggle with problems of diverse

situations and some, we least expected it. Everyone goes up and down. No worries as there is a way if you try it – something works, sometimes it don’t.

Some more Parenting Lessons can be found which relate to real life situations of Mom and children. Helpful Parenting Lessons too by Abby 

About Tom and Jerry: 

78 + years of Tom and Jerry: How this cat and mouse game played out over the years

Tom and Jerry is an American animated series of short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. It centers on a rivalry between its two title characters, Tom, a cat, and Jerry, a mouse, and many recurring characters, based around slapstick comedy.

In its original run, Hanna and Barbera produced 114 Tom and Jerry shorts for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1940 to 1958. During this time, they won seven Academy Awards for Animated Short Film, tying for first place with Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies with the most awards in the category. After the MGM cartoon studio closed in 1957, MGM revived the series with Gene Deitch directing an additional 13 Tom and Jerry shorts for Rembrandt Films from 1961 to 1962. Tom and Jerry then became the highest-grossing animated short film series of that time, overtaking Looney Tunes. Chuck Jones then produced another 34 shorts with Sib Tower 12 Productions between 1963 and 1967. Three more shorts were produced, The Mansion Cat in 2001, The Karate Guard in 2005, and A Fundraising Adventure in 2014, making a total of 164 shorts. Various shorts have been released for home media since the 1990s.

A number of spin-offs have been made, including the television series The Tom and Jerry Show (1975), The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (1980–82), Tom and Jerry Kids (1990–93), Tom and Jerry Tales (2006–08), and The Tom and Jerry Show (2014–present). The first feature-length film based on the series, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, was released in 1992, and 13 direct-to-video films have been produced since 2002.

Introduced in India by Cartoon Network India in 1996, not only Cartoon shows but games like Hungry Tom, Save the Jerry, Fun with Spike the Bulldog, Catch Tom by His Tail and Catch the Cheese provide a fun environment for children and they also enhance and challenge their mental and physical faculties.

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Strange Habits of Famous Writers

It’s Ok – Writers should be Strange ! A simple writing habit changed my life as an Author of Guardian of Angels and life is ever on a fast track lane performing roles. Reading is my super power and so is writing – writing Contents and Book Reviews. My habit revolves around using my Library – reference books or just hug my Books cupboard and writing comes naturally. Another habit has always been Listening – Listening to Western Pop in the background,  speed thoughts and writing comes automatically ! And I Admit, I ain’t famous but sure inspired with many well known and famous Authors who had wierd or strange habits that hooked them to writing and even cope with the writers block. Every writer has a strategy as they pen words. A piece of a genius has remarkable skills and intelligence. Passion plays a role and so do habits – be it weird or die hard habits !

Check this Infographic : 

20 Quirks and Strange Habits – The weird side of Famous Writers :

Source Credits:

About the Author: Jack Milgram is a writer at Custom-Writing.org. He started his freelance career when he was a student. Jack has been interested in writing since he first took pen and paper in his hands. And he never stopped writing ever after. He loves combining his job with traveling around the world.

 

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Rest in Peace Stephen Hawking

ON Pi Day 14th March 2018, Kidsfreesouls join the world in sadness & express condolences to family and colleagues as we say goodbye to Stephen Hawking. Just like Pi never ends, your amazing mind has left our planet an endless legacy which you kindly shared with #WRAwesome and the world! 

Remembering Stephen Hawking, a renowned physicist and ambassador of science. His theories unlocked a universe of possibilities that we & the world are exploring. The British physicist Steven Hawking is living proof that someone can overcome enormous obstacles and still flourish as a human being.

The 76-year-old theoretical physicist, one of science’s most famous luminaries died on March 14, also known as National Pi Day — an annual day for scientists and mathematicians around the world to celebrate the value of pi that even includes deals on pizzas and actual pies. Suffice it to say that the noteworthy coincidence was not lost on the internet.

The date of Hawking’s death — 3/14 — is significant because 3.14 are the first three digits of pi, a bedrock of geometry. Specifically, it’s the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Naturally, the fact that science’s big celebration overlapped with the day the life of the party left us is making people geek out about the details.

His passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake. But it’s not empty. Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies measure. “May you keep flying like superman in microgravity” he said to astronauts on Nasa Space_Station in 2014.

As soon as news spread that Hawking died early Wednesday morning in London, people were quick to to connect the dots.

Quotes :

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Stephen Hawking: “I have learned not to look too far ahead, but to concentrate on the present”

About Pi Day:

Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π. Pi Day is observed on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant digits of π. In 2009, the United States House of Representatives supported the designation of Pi Day.

14th March is the 30th Anniversary of Pi Day. Here’s What You Should Know About the Irrational Number.

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International Women’s Day

WOMAN – THE QUEEN OF THE CASTLE

Wherever she is, there is Eden

The Most prized & precious woman in your Life – Is she your Mom? Is she your Wife? Your Sweetheart? Maybe Girlfriend? A cousin? A sis or aunt? Or your Inspirational role model? Or a net surfer in disguise? Whoever she is, she is the ocean of Love, take a dip in that ocean and you will realize the immense strength a woman possess!

All around the world, International Women’s Day represents an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women while calling for greater equality.

#PressFor Progress – Theme for 2018

Individually, we’re one drop but together we’re an ocean. Commit to a “gender parity mindset” via progressive action. Let’s all collaborate to accelerate gender parity, so our collective action powers equality worldwide.

IWD Theme continues all Year. So, choose and #PressforProgress.

Started by the Suffragettes in the early 1900’s, the first International Women’s Day was celebrated in 1911. International Women’s Day belongs to all communities everywhere – governments, companies, charities, educational institutions, networks, associations, the media and more. Whether through a global conference, community gathering, classroom lesson or dinner table conversation – everyone can play a purposeful part in pressing for gender parity.

So make International Women’s Day YOUR day and do what you can to truly make a positive difference for women. Press for Progress! (International Women’s Day)

KIDSFREESOULS THEME : #PressforProgress 2018

Kidsfreesouls will #PressforProgress 2018 with section for Children Books about women and Like a Women by Reading her Book – women who’ve made into Literary world.

Kidsfreesouls continues its previous #MakeItHappen 2015 theme to take the lead to educate and guide children (esp. teenage girls) and provide tech information to Parents and Teachers. It’s a ‘Red Alert’ to Be Aware and Beware on Social networking websites esp. on Facebook where hanging is lot more fun, updating profile pics, commenting or messaging. Recent observation with children who are active on Facebook and the parental concern about child’s activity on the web, call for privacy matters that matters the most.

Kidsfreesouls will maintain #GenderParity mindset and like always, with no bias support women and women participation and nominate for opportunities.

question any lack of women’s participation
identify alternatives that are more inclusive
nominate women for opportunities
always include and support women
think “50/50” as the goal

Theme for 2017 : Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030

Theme for 2016: Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality

Make It Happen was the 2015 theme for our international womens day encouraging effective action for advancing and recognising women.

Various organisations identify their own International Women’s Day theme, specific to their local context and interests. Many charities, NGOs and Governments also adopt a relevant theme or campaign to mark the day. For example, organisations like the UN, Oxfam, Women for Women, Care International, Plan, World Association of Girl Guides & Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and more – run exciting and powerful campaigns that raise awareness and encourage donations for good causes. The UN has been declaring an annual equality theme for many years.

 

KIDSFREESOULS THEME  : INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: #MakeItHappen 2015

The Gender Agenda: EMPOWERING & AWARENESS THROUGH LITERACY & EDUCATION 

Women empowerment measures are taking strides since last many years but yet, at the grass roots – Understanding is required to help children grow up gracefully and protect their own self. With Technology leap, not only Children, Parents and Teachers too have raised issue of Online Abuse and Safety.

Commemorating International Women’s Day, Kidsfreesouls take the lead to educate and guide children (esp. teenage girls) and provide tech information to Parents and Teachers. It’s a ‘Red Alert’ to Be Aware and Beware on Social networking websites esp. on Facebook where hanging is lot more fun, updating profile pics, commenting or messaging. Recent observation with children who are active on Facebook and the parental concern about child’s activity on the web, call for privacy matters that matters the most.

As per the recent Pew Internet report, 95% of all American teens ages 12-17 are now online and 80% of those online teens are users of social media sites. Social activity of teen life is echoed and amplified – in both good and bad ways even in India. Monitoring their activities has become dim for parents and even teachers at times. As a result, the need of the hour is using technologies and make sure your teens know where to go for support if someone ever harasses them. Help them understand how to make responsible and safe choices about what they post—because anything they put online can be misinterpreted or taken out of context. Even Moms and Teachers need guidelines on how to be safe online.

Kidsfreesouls promotes Literacy and Education to children, parents and teachers. Through Kidsfreesoul NIE (Newspaper in Education) Program, Kids, Parents and Teachers gain a better understanding of Technology and world around them. Predators are crawling on the web – in chat-messages, emails, Discussion boards, etc. Safety is a huge concern for women and children who are provided guidelines to surf smart and get the tech understanding of Social networks.

Parents and Teachers get well informed with Kidsfreesouls NIE Program and can guide the Children in a more responsible manner. Students learn for better use of Technology and even how to use Social Networks being more focused to reach their goals. Kidsfreesouls help children online and offline, to follow the rules to Beware on the Internet by following simple guidelines in its Kids Technology pages and helping children create Blogs and how to blog and promote on Facebook. Thereby, encouraging reading, motivating creativity and enhancing their tech skills.

A number of Talks and Discussions are held at Kidsfreesouls (Swagat Classroom) with the NIE Program. This highlights on Technology as well as teaching children ‘Personality Development and Human Relationship’ and Talks focused on Life skills and Attitude behavior patterns.

Parenting sessions are conducted in Educational Institutes eg. Positive Parenting (Hands on, Hands Off, Half Hearted Parenting), How to use Internet and Safety of Kids online and safe use of Social networking sites.

Ilaxi Patel has consequently 2 times received Awards on International Women’s Day by leading Organizations for being an ‘Outstanding Journalist’ and ‘Outstanding Personality.’ Her Awards Page can be located here on
http://www.kidsfreesouls.com/index.php/ilaxi-s-awards

Her first article in Journalism was on WID and can be read here : http://www.kidsfreesouls.com/index.php/culture-festivals/791-women-s-international-day

The NIE (Newspaper in Education) Program link is :
http://www.kidsfreesouls.com/index.php/for-teachers/forteachers/nie-tips

Kidsfreesouls Swagat Children Library

International Women’s Day – 8th March

(My first print media article that appeared in The Times of India and Sambhaav Newspapers)

From age old time, Women has many facets in different form – a mother, wife, sister, guardian, Administrator, mentor, lover … on & on. Her endless tasks are blend with her love, beauty, grace, charm. understanding and over & above, her caring, sharing, giving, tolerating, compromising, adjusting are the key factors of a mentor of the human race.
It’s a known fact, Eve was blessed from the rib of Adam but her very mistake of eating a forbidden fruit has landed her to curses galore which has nevertheless formed and developed the race of human being and without her, no human would flourish on earth. Woman’s influence patterns vary for development and progress in children, husbands, in-laws(family), friends, workplace and all closely acquainted to her. Her role is prominent. She can construct bridges to Heaven of super happiness and eternity or land to turmoil of pain, sadness and frustrations. She has to be a workaholic – simple logic because a woman is a source of Inspiration and Encouragement, a strong pillar standing and supporting beside through happy or hazy days.
Women are infiltrating what was once the exclusive domain of men. On work fronts, more women are active as ever. Women’s liberation & rights are sorted over but the question remains burning with abuses, dowry, extra-marital affairs, etc. She is yet scoffed, scorned, misunderstood, exposed , exploited, molested, tormented…
Finally, it’s a man’s world and all is said and done – A woman is puppet on a chain and pondering over rightly justifies that “A man’s world is woman and without her, there would be a wide gap making him forlorn and lost.
Mark Twain once said in a tribute to his wife:
” Wherever she was, there was Eden “

UN International Women’s Day Themes

The UN declared an International Women’s Day theme.International Women’s Day 2015 Theme: MAKE IT HAPPEN.

Many organisations develop International Women’s Day themes relevant to their local contexts. For example, the European Parliament’s 2012 theme was “Equal pay for work of equal value”.

Below are some of the global United Nation themes used for International Women’s Day to date:

– 2017 : Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030

– 2016: Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality

– 2015 Make IT Happen

– 2014: “Equality for women is progress for all”
– 2013: “A promise is a promise. Time for action to end violence against women “

– 2012: Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty

– 2011: Equal access to education, training and science and technology
– 2010: Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all
– 2009: Women and men united to end violence against women and girls
– 2008: Investing in Women and Girls
– 2007: Ending Impunity for Violence against Women and Girls
– 2006: Women in decision-making
– 2005: Gender Equality Beyond 2005: Building a More Secure Future
– 2004: Women and HIV/AIDS
– 2003: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals
– 2002: Afghan Women Today: Realities and Opportunities
– 2001: Women and Peace: Women Managing Conflicts
– 2000: Women Uniting for Peace
– 1999: World Free of Violence against Women
– 1998: Women and Human Rights
– 1997: Women at the Peace Table
– 1996: Celebrating the Past, Planning for the Future
– 1975: First IWD celebrated by the United Nations

 “The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum” is the 2013 theme of Internationalwomensday website.

 

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Is you child Stuttering?

Have you ever found yourself or people around you with Stuttering? A communication disorder with flow of speech broken with repetitions or prolongations. (eg. he-he-he said or thaaat way). Sometimes, there is a gap in-between words. Stuttering referred as Stammering is occurred due to varied reasons. Either Stuttering is in the family genetics, delayed development in childhood, brain deficiency or neurophysiology, fear complex and high lifestyles.

As researchers say, For 70 per cent left handers, the left hemisphere controls speech, just as it does in all but a few right handers. But for 15 percent of left handed persons, the right half of the brain controls speech. For the remaining 15 percent, speech is controlled by both right and left hemispheres. Stuttering may be more common among left handed males. One theory on a cause of stuttering is that in some left handed persons, the two hemispheres of the brain compete for control of speech. Also high testosterone levels in the male make boys react more strongly than girls to stress and perhaps causes the greater aggressiveness and hyper active at an early age. This can also be a factor in a greater frequency of left handedness, dyslexia and stuttering in boys.

It is learnt over 3 million Americans Stutter with majority in males. Most of them have the fillers like ‘um’ – ‘er’ – ‘uh’ thought sometimes, this is fashionable as style speech. In fact, dis-fluency includes hesitancy. We often find children in our classrooms with stressed facial muscles, struggling to narrate a story of while talking, repeating words or trying to find words and as we prompt them to speak, they find way to finish the sentence. The voice pitch raises or gets dim. Even fear grips them and they miss on words. Sometimes, parents or teachers lose the patience if stuttering increase and repeatedly and the child keeps on making efforts in vain.

Well, so what will you do to help your kids in classrooms or at home. Especially, with those children who are stuttering and have a fear syndrome with inferiority complex.

Maybe, Kidsfreesouls tips may help: At Swagat Children Library, I often had children who had stuttering/stammering problems and speech failed. The problem had been noted and

1. First and foremost, slow and relax your own speech. Speak mild, polite and do not hurry with your own fluency. The child may fail to pick up faster what you say, as you think.

2. Dis-fluency is the result of stuttering. Give time. Give words. Give comfort. Give support.

3. Build the confidence. Encourage the child and stand by while he tries to speak – narrate the story or an incident. Get classroom debate and increase space. Get children involved and speak their mind, their way.

4. Build Self Esteem. Reassure and let the child reframe words. Show empathy, give hope. Instead of spanking or nagging, says words like ‘I know you are trying..go on..Even I get stuck up with words’

5. Calm down expectations. Boys are boys and girls are girls. There is difference in brain connections. Seek new ways of seeing the brain.

6. Calm down Kid Stress. We often admit that kids too have stress. Too much of lessons to learn in class rooms, homework, peer group pressures, extra activities – all weigh stress for the mind to work faster round the clock. Let music fill their small world and paint their dreams at intervals. Children will respond faster when they are happy.

7. Finally, give them a cozy family lifestyle and a friendly classroom. Raised voices, fighting and bickering will fill them with fright and stuttering follows due to unhealthy environment.

Famous People who Stutter

STUTTERING HELP – JUST FOR KIDS : THE STUTTERING FOUNDATION WEBSITE

Over three million Americans stutter.
Stuttering affects three to four times as many males as females.
Approximately 5 percent of all children go through a period of stuttering that lasts six months or more. Three-quarters of those will recover by late childhood, leaving about 1% with a long-term problem.
Exciting new research in the areas of genetics, neurophysiology, child development, and family dynamics is shedding light on the possible causes of stuttering. As a result, we have made tremendous progress in the prevention of stuttering in young children.
Studies show that people who stutter are as intelligent and as well-adjusted as those who don’t.
People who stutter are self-conscious about their stuttering and often let the disability determine the vocation they choose.
There are no instant miracle cures for stuttering.
Stuttering becomes an increasingly formidable problem in the teen years.
James Earl Jones, John Stossel, Kenyon Martin, Annie Glenn, Bill Walton, Mel Tillis, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, Carly Simon, John Updike, Ken Venturi, Bob Love, King George VI- all famous people who stutter.

The Stuttering Foundation maintains a toll-free helpline, 800-992-9392, and two Web sites www.stutteringhelp.org and www.tartamudez.org.  tHEY work towardS the prevention and improved treatment of stuttering, reaching over a million people a year.

Well, Artie Knapp, our Kidsfreesouls Children’s Story Author (Fairyland), book ‘Stuttering Stan Takes a Stand‘ – Stanley is like most squirrels: he loves nuts, climbing trees and playing with friends. But Stanley feels different from the other animals in his neighborhood, because he has a problem with words. Teased and bullied about his stuttering, Stanley refuses to let on that his feelings are being hurt, until one day he learns an important lesson from a new friend. Stuttering Stan Takes a Stand is published by the Division of Speech Pathology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, which is the largest pediatric speech pathology program in the United States. You can read Author Artie Knapp’s Interview on Speechpathology.com

Find Artie Knapp’s stories here for classroom Projects here.

Grab a copy of the book here:

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Stuttering Stan

Stuttering Stan Takes a Stand
By Artie Knapp

Stanley is like most squirrels: he loves nuts, climbing trees and playing with friends. But Stanley feels different from the other animals in his neighborhood, because he has a problem with words. Teased and bullied about his stuttering, Stanley refuses to let on that his feelings are being hurt, until one day he learns an important lesson from a new friend.

Stuttering Stan Takes a Stand is published by the Division of Speech Pathology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, which is the largest pediatric speech pathology program in the United States.

www.cincinnatichildrens.org/speech

Author Artie Knapp talks about Stuttering Stan with Speechpathology.com.

Why do Kids Stutter? Kidsfreesouls Tips for parents/teachers

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Born: February 27, 1807, in Portland, Maine, United States

Died: March 24, 1882, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Many of the lines of Longfellow is so familiar to us and quoted as inspirations, he is the best loved and popular American Poet in the world. Easy to understand, his poems touches our hearts as he had the rhythm and beauty of a song,

optimistic vision and extreme faith in goodness of life and living. He was greatly influenced by the book of Washington Irving’s ‘Sketch Book’ apart from ‘Don Quixote’ which was his favorite read. In Hiawatha, the long poem begins with Gitche Matino, the Great Spirit, commanding his people to live in peace and tells how Hiawatha is born. It ends with the coming of the white man and Hiawatha’s death. The publication of ‘Hiawatha’ caused the greatest excitement. For the first time in American literature, Indian themes gained recognition as sources of imagination, power, and originality. The appeal of ‘Hiawatha’ for generations of children and young people gives it an enduring place in world literature.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream! —

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each to-morrow

Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world’s broad field of battle,

In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act, — act in the living Present!

Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,

Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,

With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

Learn to labor and to wait.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Home 

An interesting site for all Teachers as the Poet’s Life is offering lessons in the Classroom and innovative way to teach History as well as make the students learn English Literature.

LESSON PLAN AND GUIDE TO TEACH IN CLASSROOM

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet who was popular and successful during his time. He is noted for his ability to write about the hopes and tragedies of life in a simplistic style and with technical expertise.

His father was an influential and successful lawyer. Longfellow was educated at the private schools, Portland Academy, and Bowdoin College. He graduated at the age of fifteen. He was heavily influenced at school by the writings of Sir Walter Scott and Washington Irving.

After graduation he began to teach modern languages at Bowdoin. The new curriculum meant that Longfellow studied European culture. His exposure to French, Spanish, and Italian during his travels are reflected in his own works.

In 1831, he married Mary Potter. Three years later, he accepted a position at Harvard, which resulted in another trip to Europe. During this tour, he visited England, Sweden, and The Netherlands where he was deeply affected by German Romanticism. On this trip, however, Mary’s poor health ended with her death at Rotterdam. Longfellow felt that her death was his greatest sorrow.

On his return from Europe, he moved into the famous Craigie House, which was given to him as a wedding present when he was remarried to Francis Appleton. His second marriage ended traumatically eighteen years later when his wife was fatally burned and died.

From his first book of verse, Voices of the Night, published in 1839 to his longer works, such as Tales of a Wayside Inn, published in 1863, he was a popular, successful, and influential author throughout his life. He was able to leave his Harvard position in 1854 and support himself with his writing.

On his last trip to Europe at that age of sixty -one, he was given honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge. Fourteen years later, he published his last poems in a collection, entitled In the Harbor. A few weeks later, he suddenly developed an illness that caused his death.

Maine’s Historical Society’s Website

for Further Information

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W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden

1907-1973) Born on 20th February 1907

W.H. Auden, an English born poet was born in York, England, in 1907 (20th Feb). He made a remarkable contribution and best known for variety of his works W.H. Auden has written the best ballads, blues, limericks, sonnets, nonsense verse, oratorios, free verse, librettos (words) for operas and dramas.

He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for his book length poem The age of anxiety,: A baroque eclogue

As an amateur poet in his younger days, he was influenced by the poetry of Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Old English verse. He had a remarkable wit and often mimicked the writing styles of these poets.

In 1928, Auden published his first book of verse, and his collection Poems, published in 1930, established him as the leading voice of a new generation. He visited Germany, Iceland, and China, served in the Spanish Civil war, and in 1939 moved to the United States, where he met his lover, Chester Kallman.

In Oxford University, Auden was the leader of a group of brilliant writers. Later he turned to Christianity and psychoanalysis as a partial solutions to the problems of civilization. Auden settled in US in 1939 and later became a US citizen.

Auden has remarkable contribution but the most known collaboration was with Christopher Isherwood on travel books and several symbolic and satirical plays in the 1930s. This included The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935) and The Ascent of F6 (1936). He also helped to write Libretto to a Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s Opera The Rake’s Progress. Many of his essays were published in The Dyer’s Hand (1963).

W. H. Auden was a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1954 to 1973, and divided most of the second half of his life between residences in New York City and Austria. He died in Vienna in 1973.

After reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics

Prose

Letters from Iceland (1937)

Journey to a War (1939)

Enchaféd Flood (1950)

The Dyer’s Hand (1962)

Selected Essays (1964)

Forewords and Afterwords (1973)

Anthology

Selected Poems by Gunnar Ekelöf (1972)

Drama

On the Frontier (1938)

Paid On Both Sides (1928)

The Dog Beneath the Skin: or, Where is Francis? (1935)

The Ascent of F.6 (1936)

The Dance of Death (1933)

W. H. Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

Silence the pianos and with muffled drum

Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead

Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,

Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,

Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;

Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.

For nothing now can ever come to any good.

One of Auden’s Poems above was read at the funeral responsible for part of the name of the ‘Four weddings and a funeral’ movie.

A clip from the Movie on my You Tube :

Four weddings and a Funeral in Fav Vlogs

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Poetry by W.H. Auden

The Orators prose and verse (1932)

Another Time (1940)

The Double Man (1941)

Collected Poetry (1945)

Collected Shorter PoemsNones (1952)

1930-1944 (1950)

About the House About the House (1965)

Academic Graffiti (1971)

City without Walls (1969)

Collected Longer Poems (1968)

Collected Poems (1991)

Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 (1966)

Epistle to a Godson (1972)

For the Time Being (1944)

Homage to Clio (1960)

Look, Stranger! in America: On This Island (1936)

Poems (1930)

Selected Poems (1979)

Selected Poetry (1956)

Spain (1937)

Thank You, Fog: Last Poems (1974)

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947)

The Old Man’s Road (1956)

The Quest (1941)

The Sea and the Mirror (1944)

The Shield of Achilles (1955)

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Lewis Caroll

LEWIS CAROLL

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
(Born – January 27, 1832, in Daresbury, Chesire, England )
(Died : January 14, 1898, in Gildford, Surrey, England)

LIMERICK BY LEWIS CAROLL TO VERA BERINGER 

 

There was a young lady of station,

“I love man,’ was her sole exclamation;

But when men cried: “You flatter,’

She replied: “Oh! no matter,

Isle of Man is the true explanation!’

27th January 1832 was the day when Charles Lutwidge Dodgson – (pen name Lewis Caroll) was born. A distinguished mathematician and logician who wrote several mathematical treatises as well as fiction and poetry, Lewis Carroll is best known as the creator of the classic children’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This classic novel is at once a social satire and a whimsical fairy tale, and can be appreciated by both adults and children. Born to Francis Jane Lutwidge and Reverend Charles Dodgson, Carroll began practicing the art of entertaining children with his ten younger siblings while growing up in an isolated community in Chesire, England.

Carroll attended the Richmond and Rugby schools, where his reserved character made him a target for bullying by other students. He did not like these early school experiences, but continued on to a scholarly career at Christ College, Oxford which was to last virtually until the end of his life. After graduating with honors in mathematics and classical studies he was granted a fellowship and became a faculty member at age twenty-four. At twenty-five he obtained his master’s degree and was ordained in 1861 to fulfill the requirements of remaining at Oxford, which he did, as a teacher of mathematics, until 1881.

At Christ College Carroll also found an appreciative audience for his storytelling capabilities in the children of the dean: Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell. Being unmarried and childless himself (a stipulation of the university), Carroll often amused other people’s children, such as those of writers George Macdonald and Alfred Lord Tennyson, with his stories. However it was to Alice Liddell that Carroll first told the fanciful story of falling down a rabbit hole into another world. She urged him to write down the story so that she might read it again, and thus the prototype of the now famous tale was first put into written form.

This story, accompanied by some rough drawings, was admired by the novelist Henry Kingsly who was visiting the Liddells, and Carroll was encouraged to publish it. At the behest of the publisher Carroll added some stories to bring the story to novel length. With illustrations by cartoonist Sir John Tenniel, the book was first published in 1865. Both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, written in 1871, were considerable successes.

The stories continue to delight children today, and their whimsical appeal have been analyzed by adults for deeper meanings, although critics remain divided on this point. Some uncertainty similarly surrounds the nature of Carroll’s friendships with little girls, and the photographic portraits of children he was known for. What is certain is the lasting appeal of Carroll’s “Alice” stories, particularly the delightful poetry, twisted logic and memorable characters to be found there.

Gatten, Brian. SparkNote on Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. 27 Jan. 2009

 http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/alice/

 

A Fancy – Poem by Lewis Caroll

I painted her a gushing thing,

With years about a score;

I little thought to find they were

A least a dozen more;

My fancy gave her eyes of blue,

A curly auburn head:

I came to find the blue a green,

The auburn turned to red.

She boxed my ears this morning,

They tingled very much;

I own that I could wish her

A somewhat lighter touch;

And if you ask me how

Her charms might be improved,

I would not have them added to,

But just a few removed!

She has the bear’s ethereal grace,

The bland hyaena’s laugh,

The footstep of the elephant,

The neck of a giraffe;

I love her still, believe me,

Though my heart its passion hides;

“She’s all my fancy painted her,”

But oh! how much besides!

A Strange wild song by Lewis Carroll

He thought he saw an Elephant

That practised on a fife:

He looked again, and found it was

A letter from his wife.

‘At length I realize,’ he said,

‘The bitterness of life! ‘

He thought he saw a Buffalo

Upon the chimney-piece:

He looked again, and found it was

His Sister’s Husband’s Niece.

‘Unless you leave this house,’ he said,

‘I’ll send for the police! ‘

he thought he saw a Rattlesnake

That questioned him in Greek:

He looked again, and found it was

The Middle of Next Week.

‘The one thing I regret,’ he said,

‘Is that it cannot speak! ‘

He thought he saw a Banker’s Clerk

Descending from the bus:

He looked again, and found it was

A Hippopotamus.

‘If this should stay to dine,’ he said,

‘There won’t be much for us! ‘

He thought he saw a Kangaroo

That worked a Coffee-mill:

He looked again, and found it was

A Vegetable-Pill.

‘Were I to swallow this,’ he said,

‘I should be very ill! ‘

He thought he saw a Coach-and-Four

That stood beside his bed:

He looked again, and found it was

A Bear without a Head.

‘Poor thing,’ he said, ‘poor silly thing!

It’s waiting to be fed! ‘

He thought he saw an Albatross

That fluttered round the lamp:

He looked again, and found it was

A Penny-Postag e Stamp.

‘You’d best be getting home,’ he said:

‘The nights are very damp! ‘

He thought he saw a Garden-Door

That opened with a key:

He looked again, and found it was

A Double Rule of Three:

‘And all its mystery,’ he said,

‘Is clear as day to me! ‘

He thought he saw a Argument

That proved he was the Pope:

He looked again, and found it was

A Bar of Mottled Soap.

‘A fact so dread,’ he faintly said,

‘Extinguishe s all hope! ‘

Lewis Carroll

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