Chris Molla

I'd never tried this game before with kids this young, but it worked very well. Icky bicky soda cracker, Icky bicky boo. Icky bicky soda cracker, Out goes you! This is a classic choosing rhyme ("Eeny meeny miney mo" probably being the most widely known example) which is used by elementary-school-age children to determine who will be "it" for another game, such as Tag, Hide-and-Seek, etc. In working with infants and toddlers, I use these rhymes for the richness of...

The fracas over Barack Obama's remarks about blue-collar "bitterness" in the rust belt has yet to settle down. I suppose I would be affronted if I felt the remarks were directed at me (does it make me snob if I don't assume they're so directed?). After all, the way he phrased them at the time, its fairly easy to interpret Obama's words as implying that people who are thus embittered are somehow retreating from the difficulties of life by taking comfort in the...