I see where you get your inspiration from now.
We ban Muslim headscarves here but the primary age kids will be sure to celebrate Halloween!

So you'll be dressing up as Buddha this year?

What's next? Animal rights groups saying it is offensive to dress as dogs or cats? Good Grief, Charlie Brown, we've killed the Great Pumpkin.

here's a link to that short story. it's very short. but a "doozy."

http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html

Ya'know... it's hard to believe you've never had any art lessons.

we do not have "Halloween" parties in our school district... however at the end of October every year, we have a "fall party". This would be very similiar to the "winter party" we have on Dec. 23.

- Dana

Hi Bill, thanks for stopping by my blog earlier. (for those just joining us, I've been writing about college kids dying of alcohol poisoning). Start here--has links to the previous posts"

http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2004/10/sometimes_paren.html

I started in on this because of Gordie Bailey, who is the child of a friend's friend, and who reminded me of...well never mind.

The big big big regret I have about a child who is now an adult and is wandering around doing nothing but smoking dope is that we did not follow up on the threat to test his urine weekly for drug use.

If we had done that when he was 16 and 17 (in addition to treatment and therapy) I think he would have had several years of sobriety to get a handle on the other things. But we didn't, because we were too spineless. it was too invasive.

I hope that some day he realizes that sobriety and facing the demons is better than a drug haze....

And oh, parents? Don't just talk. Snoop. Go ahead, be invasive if you think your kid is using.

And oh, parents? Don't send your kid off to college without knowing that binge drinking--jello shots--beer bongs--can kill you or your friend.

How would you like to be the parent who gets the phone call from jail, because your kid put another kid to bed, dead drunk...and the kid died. Look at Gordie Bailey and Blake Hammondtree--some of the boys who were in the house will probably do jail time because they were complicit in the behavior that lead up to those boys' death.