Posts by Jackie Clark
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Up Front: Let's Talk About Sex, Baby, in reply to Emma Hart,
Yes. Still, very honest, I think. It would be a fine line I guess, sex blogging for men.
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I'm first? Oh well if the rest of you buggers aren't going to say anything.....(always the worry of those of us who talk too much). I think sex bloggers are very brave for a number of reasons. Not least of which is that they talk about sex in a way that's not cringing or deflecting. They are honest, open people who share their lives and experiences for one reason, and one reason only.
Sex bloggers talk about things we’re not supposed to talk about, not seriously. Because we don’t talk about it, it can be difficult to realise the immense breadth of perfectly natural, perfectly all right, sexual feelings and experiences. The more people who are prepared to talk, publicly, about their own personal experience, the more complete the picture becomes. We feel affirmed when we can identify, and (hopefully) curious and intrigued when we run across something very different from our own headspace. The more we know about, the more able we are to make informed and intelligent decisions about our own lives. We acknowledge more paths to happiness.
I always thought I was open minded. I was quite, quite wrong. Reading the work of these women (I haven't read any male ones) has been quite the education for me. And I appreciate that. I like to hear about other peoples' experiences - it informs my opinions, and makes me a more compassionate person, a less judgemental one. And that can't be a bad thing.
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Gareth,
good girl!
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
They are gorgeous, Kyle? From the same litter? Man.
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Sacha,
You know where I work so you know that all kids need guidance. Some kids, though, like the wee boy on the ASD we have at the moment, and who races around at a rate of knots, we need a bit of help with coping with. We had a child here who before she got her wheelchair required us to cart her around on our hips. When you've got 44 other kids who need you in different ways, that's a matter of figuring out available hips.
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Sacha,
No, unfortunately, we're pretty radical in our views on what happens when a kid who might require a bit of support turns up.
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Well, in my opinion, if everyone is being catered for, then "inclusiveness" becomes moot. And the word itself implies exclusion.
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Joe Wylie,
When I started training to be a teacher, in 1994, one of our year's intake was a young woman who had CP. She did her first practicum, and then left. In a sector which prides itself on inclusiveness - which in and of itself is somewhat of an obnoxious notion, in my opinion - this has always struck me as the crux of the matter. If everyone has the right to do a job, and that person is good at their job, then why do we keep on insisting on putting barriers in peoples' way? Why do we make it harder? Why, for example, do children with special needs (once again, not a term I like using) have an Education Support Worker who then takes them away to work with separately? Never understood that and we don't do that in our kindergarten.
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Tanya Black,
Sing it sister xx
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Hard News: Music: K Road Sings, in reply to bob daktari,
Lovely, lovely Linn Lorkin. Which leads us to the most obvious song - delighted that she's still performing it.