The Best Use of Our Respective Skill Sets
It's so nice when your children have skill sets. It's especially wonderful when those skill sets complement your own. The very best is when they offer those skill sets to the task at hand. Right now, I am a very happy person. GRIN , my hassle-free-volunteering-not-for-profit, is joining with No Excuses University 's Tucson campuses to fill their classrooms with collegiate decor. Bulletin boards are covered with powerful imagery that makes a statement: college is in your future. Kindergarteners play going to college with the blocks; many of their first generation parents knew little if any schooling at all. It's a remarkable concept, one which the students embrace with enthusiasm. "You brought us that Penn State garbage can," was my host's introduction as he escorted me to my destination on the middle school's campus last May. We talked about engineering and the weather in Pennsylvania and it was like any other middle class conversation wo...