Lookout for Santa
December 23, 2009 by Dan
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by Cladine Zap
Dec. 23, 2009
Christmas Eve is a busy day for one Santa Claus of the North Pole. But just leaving out cookies and milk and hoping that St. Nick will make it to your house is so last century.
This year, with the help of social-networking tools and GPS, you can track Santa’s movements throughout the night, from your mobile phone, your computer, or your car.
Normally, NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) is the U.S.-Canadian military organization that watches over the air and water for security threats.
But on Christmas Eve, the command center switches to Santa mode, and operation Santa Tracker is in full force.
The live tracker incorporates radar, satellites, “Santa Cams,” and yes, even fighter jets, to follow Father Christmas on his goodwill gift-giving tour.
Last year, the Colorado Springs command center needed 100 phones and 25 computers to handle almost 70,000 calls and 6,000 emails from some 200 countries who wanted to know when Santa would make it to their town.
And if Yahoo! searches are any indication, NORAD may need more than that this Christmas Eve. Queries have soared 240% for “santa tracker norad” in the last day alone.
Lookups have also increased on “santa trackers,” “live santa tracker,” and “norad santa tracker games.”
NORAD has a partnership with Google Maps, which incorporated Santa’s path on its map software, as well as on Google Earth.
(Last year the tech company mistakenly placed Toronto on the U.S. side of the border. But that has since been corrected — international crisis averted.)
This year, the vehicle-navigation company OnStar is on board with GPS tracking, so drivers with the in-car GPS can keep an eye on Santa’s trip while en route to Grandma’s house.
The NORAD Santa Tracker will also be up on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube. Don’t say Santa doesn’t keep up with the times.
Follow Buzz Log on Twitter.
Source: Yahoo News
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Money for Kids
December 20, 2009 by Dan
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by Michael G. Peterson
Dec. 20, 2009
Children seem to be born with an insatiable desire to spend. Whether it’s Christmas, birthday parties, or a trip to the local mall, children are never too shy when it comes to vocalizing their wants.
And sometimes, they’re relentless.
Parents face this on a daily basis. Dealing with the barrage of purchase requests becomes a part-time job.
What’s the best way to give your child a deeper understanding of where money really comes from? Reducing greed, instilling awareness, and teaching good work habits in children will go a long way to creating financially successful adults.
Ways to Teach Your Children About Money
Start Early
The best way to start is when they’re young. Showing them the importance of money will help them to understand why they can’t have everything they see.
Begin by explaining the process of working:
• Why you have to go to work
• What you do for your employer
• What you receive for doing it
• Why you need money
As soon as they’re ready, teach them about coins and dollar bills. Show them how many coins equals one dollar, how many dollars equals a five-dollar bill, and so on.
The earlier they have an understanding that the green bill on the counter is not another coloring page, the better.
Turn the Water Off
Now that your child has some understanding of how money is earned, it’s important to teach about waste.
While explaining about spending money, teach them about the household bills. The ones they’ll grasp the easiest are the ones they can see. The utility bills are a good example. While they’re brushing their teeth, teach them to turn the water off until they need it again.
Explain how the water going down the drain is like money going down the drain. And, when leaving an empty room, teach them to turn the lights off. Explain to them that the less money wasted on unnecessary bills is more money that can be used for household groceries, fuel for the car, and family vacations.
Give them the sense that your wallet is not a bottomless pit and that, when payday arrives, the money is allocated for certain expenses.
Differentiate Between “Want” and “Need”
Children think they need everything they want. Teaching them the difference is an important step in helping them decide what to do with their money.
Some important questions for them to think about, include:
• Do they already have what they are asking for?
• If so, is it broken, lost, or missing parts?
• Can it be repaired?
• How often do they play with it?
• What do they really need, instead?
Marrying want and need can be a creative way to save money and teach restraint.
For example, a young child that wants a new fire truck but needs new sneakers, may be just as happy with a pair of sneakers with a fire truck on them.
Make Saving Fun
Put a piggy bank in the kitchen. Make a game out of cleaning up by letting them put coins in the piggy bank after each toy is put away.
Then, when the bank is full, have them sit on the floor with you and wrap their money into coin rolls. Bring them to the bank with all of their wrapped coins. Have them trade in some of their coins for dollars, the others for savings.
Sign up for a bankcard and let them use the ATM to make withdrawals from their own account. Reward their good efforts by taking them shopping to purchase what they need.
Give Them Purchasing Power
Let your children be king for a day. Take them to the store with you and help them to understand prices, sales, and ingredients.
Then, have them decide which items are the wisest to purchase. Establish a budget for the shopping trip and make it a goal to stay within that amount. Give them a calculator and let them keep track of how much you are spending.
If you need to override their decision, make sure they understand why. This will both broaden their sense of responsibility and improve their analytical skills.
Teach Them Personal Responsibility
The simple concept of teaching a child how to care for and take responsibility for their personal possessions helps them to understand value. Value is crucial in appreciating worth.
Once a child really appreciates worth, the concept of money will fall into place.
Easy exercises include:
• Putting coats and shoes away – installing easy-to-reach coat hooks solves the problem of little arms.
• Putting toys back together with all of their parts intact and storing them in a safe place.
• Keeping their clothes folded and stored in dresser drawers, so no one can step on them.
• Making sure books are always put on bookshelves, never on the floor.
• Carrying unbreakable dishes to the sink.
Let Them Work
Instead of just giving out a weekly allowance, let your children earn their money in small ways.
From cleaning up their room to mowing your lawn, jobs are essential in teaching children that money will never grow on trees. Pay a fair wage.
Don’t overcompensate but make sure the child has enough incentive to want to work, much like an adult. In addition to payments, make sure you praise them for a job well done.
Teaching children from an early age about money can save you and them a lot of trouble in their later years.
Remember that children, as adults, most appreciate those things that they’ve worked hard to get. You aren’t doing your children any favors by buying them everything they want.
A little financial instruction can go a long way to helping your children become financially responsible adults.
Source: Spiffy Moms
Editor’s Note:2004 DebtGuru.com. Michael G. Peterson is the Vice President of American Credit Foundation, an IRS 501 (c)(3) non-profit consumer credit counseling organization that has assisted thousands of individuals and families with their financial situations through seminars, education, counseling services, and, debt management plans.
For more information, and free consumer resources visit www.debtguru.com
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Treats for Military Families
December 13, 2009 by Dan
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By Elaine Wilson
American Forces Press Service
Dec. 13, 2009
More than 3,000 military families will have a few extra presents under the tree this year thanks to the generous efforts of Operation Home front and The Wal-Mart Foundation.
Operation Home front, a troop-support organization, invited spouses of deployed service members to shop for free today in six make-shift toy stores stocked with toys and books donated by Wal-Mart and set up in locations near military installations throughout the country, said Jim Knotts, Operation Home front chief executive officer.
“This has been an especially difficult year for our military families and their children. They’re not only dealing with deployments but also the economic recession,” Knotts said.
“Through the generosity of Wal-Mart, these donated toys and books will allow the military families to provide a happy holiday for their children while using their limited resources on the vital basic needs.”
Each family had the opportunity to choose three toys and one book per child, Knotts said, with a total of about 10,000 military children served.
The toy shops were set up near Fort Hood and Fort Bliss in Texas; Fort Bragg, N.C.; Fort Campbell, Ky.; Fort Stewart, Ga.; and Camp Pendleton, Calif. – markets that top the Pentagon’s list of cities with the highest troop deployments, according to an Operation Home front release.
Catherine Fontanez shopped today at the toy store in the National Guard Armory gymnasium in Fayetteville, N.C., near Fort Bragg.
Her husband, Army Sgt. Nelson Fontanez, is deployed, and she said events like this are a big help to military families.
“The toys are great; very educational,” said the mother of three. “This will definitely help me out a lot financially.”
Knotts said many of the military spouses he met with today were grateful for the financial help during tough economic times.
“I met a spouse with six kids; her husband is on his first deployment in Afghanistan,” he said. “They only have $25 of disposable income for the month left over for Christmas gifts. This is a huge benefit for these families.”
The toy giveaway today was just one part of a month-long effort to help military families, Knotts said. Over the next two weeks, Operation Home front will give a $1,000 Wal-Mart gift card to five military families in 10 locations.
Home front also will distribute, through 30 of its chapters, an additional $225,000 worth of Wal-Mart gift cards to help military families meet unmet needs.
And, finally, the organization will provide caregivers of wounded warriors with 1,000 special gift packages.
Source: Our Military
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Gift of New Baby
December 13, 2009 by Dan
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By Beverly Beckham
Dec. 12, 2009
They came from short and long distances to meet him. They came before work and after work, and in between commitments and appointments and all the things that everyone has to do every day.
They stopped doing these things, took a break, and showed up at my door smiling, walked in, sat down, held out their arms and oohed and aahed.
It’s the universal language. Smiles and oohs and aahs.
Babies do this. They make people slow down. They bring people together. They make people happy.
My grandson, Luke, is seven months old, not an infant anymore, but he lives in Manhattan so none of my friends had met him.
To them he was just a photograph in my wallet, a story I’d tell, an imagined baby, a small, male version of his 2-year-old sister, Megan.
Until he arrived for a weeklong stay a few weeks ago. Then he became real. His mom and sister were in Scotland visiting her family. And his dad, my son, brought Luke home to us.
And it was like a succession of holidays, Valentine’s Day, Easter, the Fourth of July, Christmas, New Year’s, every day a party, every day someone new at the door.
My daughter Lauren took the week off from work to be near him. She fed him. She rocked him. She sang to him, played with him, and loved him.
So did his cousins and all their little friends. It was wall-to-wall children some days, Dora on TV in the family room, Fred Penner singing his children’s songs on CD in the living room, the 5-and-6-year-olds coloring, the 2-and-3-year-olds singing and dancing, Luke the catalyst for it all.
We never read a newspaper. We never watched the news. We lived in a different world for an entire week, a world full of Fisher Price Little People and toy animals that moo and quack, and stuffed bears that sing and games of patty-cake and walks with Luke in the carriage and friends, so many friends, stopping by.
“Parent Redux”…
I thought when my children grew up and left home, the cacophony that is childhood had vanished along with them.
That there would never again be doors slamming and kids shouting and babies squealing and someone saying “I’m hungry!” and the doorbell ringing and toys all over the floor.
And that never again would there be a group of us, parents and friends, whose hearth had been our children, who got together because of them, who learned from them and laughed with them and enjoyed them, sitting around in a new mix, watching and learning and enjoying their children.
But here we are, parents redux, the blush never off the rose, the joy in each new child, new joy, just invented. But old joy, too. Familiar and missed and because of this, so very welcome.
Everyone wanted to hold Luke and feed Luke and watch Luke because Luke wasn’t just my son as a baby. Luke was all our babies.
Every time one of our grown-up kids comes home, we race to a house. We sit at a table. We drink tea or wine and we ooh and we aah over everything. A good grade. A chance at a job. A new love.
And when there’s a baby? We beg to hold the baby. And we smile and our hearts swell.
Luke left six days after he arrived. The doorbell stopped ringing. Lauren went back to work. The little kids went back to school. The baby toys were put away.
I look at the pictures we took, proof that I didn’t imagine the week. In every one, someone is smiling.
Source: Grand Parents
Editor’s Note: Beverly Beckham is an award-winning columnist who writes for The Boston Globe. She has five grandchildren.
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Making the Holidays Personal
December 5, 2009 by Dan
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By Dr. Laura
Dec. 5, 2009
My husband and I were very disappointed when we learned that we could not be with our military son on Thanksgiving.
We casually mentioned to some friends that we were just going to have scrambled eggs and bagels for Thanksgiving dinner, because without him there, it just wasn’t going to be worth the effort.
Well, they kindly invited us to spend Thanksgiving with their family, and we accepted.
I wanted to do something nice for them to really show them thanks for such a lovely gesture, so I knitted a seven-foot runner for their table. When it was finished, it seemed so “plain,” that I spent four hours crocheting around the entire runner twice and added a fringe to the ends.
When I gave it to her, she held it close to her chest near her heart, and her eyes teared up as she expressed her emotion for my putting in that amount of effort for her. I have to tell you that I’ve never felt so moved by a reaction to a gift in my life.
She and her husband were doing something “personal” for me, and I wanted to return the favor.
Having Thanksgiving with their adult children and a couple who mutual friends were made for a fabulous evening, with lots of laughs and a yummy turkey….mmmm.
So, I’ve stopped buying bottles of wine and chocolate-filled baskets. I’ve been working around the clock for weeks knitting, weaving, or sewing Christmas presents.
I finished my last project for my “peeps” on Sunday (our office holiday party was on Tuesday), so I had a bit of a crunch for time. While it was exhausting and sometimes frustrating when equipment has a mind of its own, I feel giddy about giving gifts that are so much of me.
Clearly, it means more to the receiver AND the giver.
To top it off, a few of my dearest friends sent me “Thanksgiving” e-mails, enumerating the reasons they felt grateful for having me in their lives. It blew my mind. It is incredibly touching to know that you matter to someone.
I’m writing these stories to urge you all to do the same this Christmas. Don’t buy a card – write to that person and let them know why they matter to you and what you appreciate about them and how you feel grateful for them.
Instead of purchasing something generally useless that they might never use and will not cause them to reflect on your relationship, make something or do something.
For example: plant some flowers on either side of their front door; make a rocking chair for the back porch; fix something on their property; take their kids for the night so they can have a romantic time to themselves….the list of possibilities is endless.
Make it personal and that doesn’t require ridiculous expenditures for gifts that ultimately don’t matter.
Oh, and one more thing. We will see our kid let for Christmas. The tree is already up.
Source: Dr Laura
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National Recall – Baby Crab
November 29, 2009 by Dan
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By Safe Kids
Nov. 29, 2009
On Nov. 23, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of more than 2.1 million Stork Craft drop-side cribs, including Stork Craft drop-side cribs with the Fisher-Price logo.
The CPSC urges parents and caregivers to immediately stop using the recalled cribs and find an alternative, safe sleeping environment for their baby.
The drop-sides of the recalled cribs can detach in one or more places due to problems with the cribs’ plastic hardware or improper installation of the drop-sides.
This creates space between the drop-side and the crib mattress where infants and toddlers can become entrapped, leading to suffocation. Falls can also occur if the drop-side detaches completely.
The CPSC is aware of 110 incidents of drop-side detachment, including 15 entrapments and 20 falls.
Four of the entrapments resulted in suffocation deaths: a 7-month-old in Gouverneur, N.Y.; a 7-month-old in New Iberia, La.; a 6-month-old in Summersville, W.Va.; and a 9-month-old in Bronx, N.Y.
The cribs were sold in the United States and Canada from January of 1993 to October of 2009 for $100 to $400.
Major retailers included BJ’s Wholesale Club, J.C. Penney, Kmart, Meijer, Sears, USA Baby, and Wal-Mart stores and online at Amazon.com, Babiesrus.com, Costco.com, Target.com, and Walmart.com.
For more details, including how to receive a free repair kit that converts the drop-side to a fixed side, please read the CPSC recall notice. Do not attempt to fix the cribs without the kit.
Source: USA Safe Kids
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Do an Angel Tree Today
November 29, 2009 by Dan
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By Colleen Hughes
Nov. 28, 2009
Our angel tree is up! Good thing too, because three wonderful handmade angels have already arrived.
My favorite ornament so far is an adorable felt choir angel from MaryEllen Befring in Loves Park, Illinois. I want to hang it next to the cutest felt choir mouse sent in last year. (Yes, the mouse has wings!)
Mary Ellen also included Christmas greetings to our staff: “I hope you enjoy displaying little Annalisa on your tree as much as I enjoyed creating her. I am so very blessed by the stories in ANGELS ON EARTH, and wish all of you continued success.”
Please get out your sewing baskets and craft buckets, and put together an angel for our tree. Soon, we’ll post the history of the Angels Tree, with a video of the staff decorating, and we’d love to feature your ornament online.
Send it to:
Angels on Earth Angel Tree
16 East 34 St
New York, NY 10016.
Help make this year’s tree the best one yet.
Source: Guide Post
Editor’s Note: Colleen Hughes is the editor-in-chief of ANGELS ON EARTH. She’s been at GUIDEPOSTS for 20 plus years, and lives in a Hudson River town with her two daughters and two cats.
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Please do an angel tree in your neighborhood and help a child that will not have gifts for Christmas
Safety Tips: Shopping Carts
November 29, 2009 by Dan
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By Consumer Reports
Nov. 27, 2009
As people crowd stores for those all-important holiday bargains, it’s important to keep child safety in mind—especially when it comes to shopping carts.
Though they may seem sturdy, shopping carts are deceptively unstable, especially when you’ve got a baby in an infant carrier perched on top, or a squirmy toddler who won’t stay in his seat.
It’s no wonder shopping carts are among the leading causes of head injuries to young children.
To prevent shopping cart injuries from falls and tip-over, keep these cart precautions in mind:
DO:
- Always use seatbelts to restrain your child in the cart’s seat and keep an eye on her. That’s the best you can do if going shopping with your children can’t be avoided and you decide to use a shopping cart.
- Use a stroller, wagon, or soft carrier instead of a shopping cart.
- Have your child walk once he gets older.
- Have another adult come with you to watch your baby while you shop.
- Leave your kids home with another adult on your shopping days, if you can.
- Shop online so you don’t have to trek to the store with your baby.
DON’T:
- Leave your child alone in the shopping cart unsupervised.
- Let your child stand up in a shopping cart.
- Place an infant carrier on top of the shopping cart.
- Let your child ride in the cart basket.
- Let your child ride or climb on the sides or front of the cart.
- Let older children push the cart when there’s another child in it.
Source: Consumer Reports
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EIE: Safety Tips to Protect Our Children
November 22, 2009 by Dan
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By Dan Samaria
Publisher/YC
Nov. 21, 2009
Our goal at the Chronicle is to help parents raise their children, by giving them tools. We look for websites that can accomplish that goal. By no means are we trying to tell parents how to raise their children but to give them tools to help make it easier.
Being a parent is not an easy thing, there will be mistakes. Our goal is to help parents relieve some of the pressure that comes with being a parent. After all, we are not born as parents it comes with working at it.
This week, we found a site it is called Enough is Enough. We are joining as partners with them, to bring you tips, articles that can make your life easier.
We hope you will enjoy and be educated by the information that we provide you. We hope that you will also visit their site on a regular basis. They do need your support and input to make the site better.
After all, isn’t the goal is to protect our children from harm?
Enough Is Enough (EIE), a non-partisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, it was created in 1994 as the national leader on the front lines to make the Internet safer for children and families.
Since their birth EIE has been a leading pioneered in trying to protect children from online pornography, child pornography, child stalking and sexual predation with innovative initiatives and effective communications.
Their goal is to make the Internet safer for our Children. They are also dedicted to help the public be aware of Internet pornography and sexual predators, and advance solutions that promote equality, fairness and respect for human dignity with shared responsibility between the public, technology, and the law.
Each week we will provide to you safety tips to protect our children. This week: Safety Tips For Kids. This was published by Donna Rice
Hughes at protectkids.com.
I won’t give out my name, age, address, school, phone number, picture about myself or anyone else without my parent’s permission. This includes chat rooms, instant messages, email, surfing the net and even entering contests or registering for clubs online.
I won’t send my picture to anyone online without my parent’s permission.
I won’t meet with someone in person that I met on the Internet unless my parent has agreed and will go with me. I realize that people aren’t always who they say they are and that an adult can pretend to be a kid online.
If I receive or see something online that seems bad or weird, I won’t respond and will log off and tell my parents right away.
I will not open or accept e-mails, enclosures, links, URL’s or other things online from people I don’t know.
I won’t give out my password to anyone except my parents not even my friends.
I will follow my family’s rules for online safety at home, at school, at the library or at a friend or relative’s house.
Source: Enough is Enough Protects Kids
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We hope that you will visit their site, it is a worthwile site to protect your kids.
Students Rights
November 20, 2009 by Kim
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By Apple 4 the Teacher
November 20, 2009
If people are to exercise their rights and fulfill their responsibilities as citizens, they must understand those rights and responsibilities. Social studies teachers have a special role to play in shaping the lives of young United States citizens. Those educators can help determine whether students will know their civic rights and responsibilities and become politically involved adults.
U.S. GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE AND CITIZENS’ RIGHTS
Students will be interested to learn that the Bill of Rights, which many consider to be a model civil liberties document, was the result of a compromise. It was offered to allay fears about the strong central government established under the basic Constitution. Some state ratifying conventions would not have approved the Constitution had they not been promised the Bill of Rights as well.
CRIMINAL LAW AND JUVENILE JUSTICE
Critics of the criminal justice system often ask why the state should have to supply defense attorneys for criminal suspects. To a person who has not made a serious study of the Constitution, it might seem odd that the government sometimes assists people who may have broken the government’s own laws.
The 1963 case of Gideon v. Wainwright stands for the proposition that a person cannot be denied equal access to justice simply because he lacks the resources to pay for his defense.
The questions of whether poverty justifies free legal representation and whether a poor person gets the same quality legal help as a rich person does provide excellent grounds for class discussion.
Anyone who has watched a television police drama in the last few decades is familiar with the litany known as the “Miranda warning.” Most people probably do not know who Miranda was or realize the full significance of the individual instructions.
What does the Fifth Amendment’s ban on compelling a person to be a witness against himself have to do with the Miranda case? An informed citizen should know.
Was the Miranda decision a necessary defense of individual rights? Or has it unfairly restricted police officers in their apprehension of criminals? Students should be challenged to debate this constitutional issue.
In some countries, citizens must carry identity cards and show them to public authorities on demand. In most circumstances in the United States, people going about their business do not have to stop and explain themselves to every passing police officer.
People need to be aware, however, that there are exceptions to this general rule. Administrative checks of automobiles and roadblocks to seek out drunk drivers on public highways have been upheld by the courts. Even on the sidewalk, police can stop people who are acting suspiciously, and frisk them when the situation warrants.
Where should the United States draw the line between the “let me see your papers” mentality of authoritarian regimes and the legitimate interest of governments in protecting the public from dangerous individuals? This critical question should be used to focus classroom discussions.
The Eighth Amendment bars the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment and prohibits excessive bails and fines. When is a punishment “cruel and unusual”?
When is a fine “excessive”? Much has been written about the relationship between the Eighth Amendment and capital punishment. Given a hypothetical situation about a death penalty case, a classroom may produce as many different opinions about the case as there are students in the class.
The law treats children accused of breaking the law somewhat differently from adult suspects. Prosecutors generally must follow a different set of procedures when putting juveniles on trial.
However, when facing the possibility of commitment to an institution, a juvenile offender must still be advised of the charges and of the right to counsel, the privilege against self-incrimination, and the right to confront prosecuting witnesses.
As in the case of an adult charged with a crime, the guilt of a juvenile accused of committing an act of delinquency must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
Role-playing activities provide excellent means for learning about the United States justice system. Students will enjoy the drama of taking the part of a judge, lawyer, witness, or litigant.
Criminal cases and situations pitting a person’s individual rights against the authority of the government are particularly excellent situations for capturing and holding the attention of students.
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AT SCHOOL
The rules regarding search and seizure also apply differently to schoolchildren. School officials are free to search a student if there is evidence that the student committed a crime or violated a school rule, and if the search is reasonable at the outset and reasonably limited in scope.
One of the most significant United States Supreme Court decisions in history dealt with the issue of race in public education. Prior to the 1950s, African Americans were still barred from attending many public schools solely on racial grounds.
Long-standing court decisions held that “separate but equal” educational facilities for blacks were acceptable. In 1954, in the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the United States Supreme Court finally held that the “separate but equal” policy was inherently unequal.
In a follow-up ruling the next year, the justices ordered that schools were to be desegregated “with all deliberate speed.” Notwithstanding the ruling, school desegregation suits continue to crop up from time to time.
The cases and situations discussed comprise just a small part of the United States’ rich legal history. Knowledge of that history is of the utmost importance to those who are about to become adult participants in American society.
Article References and Resources
Source: Apples4theTeachers
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