Thanks Amy. And just to make it clear, I am a HUGE fan of librarians (I've blogged about how librarians rock over at my other blog http://clintlalonde.net/2007/07/13/librarians-rocks). I've told this story to other librarian friends of mine who just hang their head and shake it.. I've told this story to other librarian friends of mine who just hang their head and shake it.

Yuppers, I am a Canuck papa. And my guy is also into Superheroes BIG
time. My faulty, really. I thought it would be fun to relive my youth
so I introduced him to Spiderman and Batman from the 60's (DAMN YOU,
RETROTOON!) and created a bit of a monster.

Thanks Claire. Your blog post is exactly what I was looking for. I also got this reply on Facebook from a friend of mine who is an elementary school teacher.

"I think when it comes to Kindergarten it's all about the relationships and the behaviour. So, you can ask: How is her behaviour? Does she follow directions well? Does she seem happy? How is the social stuff going? Does the teacher have any concerns? Does the teacher have any suggestions of ways to support her learning at home?
Of course, if you have any concerns at all this is the time to bring them up.
Don't forget that p/t interviews are a long, tiring and sometimes nerve-wracking day for the teacher. But it can all be made worthwhile by hearing from a parent something that your child has brought home. "The other day M was telling us how you..." Anything that shows something is sticking, or that they're making a difference. And if the teacher is doing a good job, a quick "thank you for all you do" really makes an impression. We really hardly ever hear that.
Have fun! I actually love parent/teacher interviews... from both sides!

Clay, you guys are a truly a Daddy oasis. Thanks for doing what you do.

Thanks Amy, and for the offer to guest post. If I had a bit more time
I'd love to take you up on the offer of a guest post, but I am having
trouble mustering much more than a weekly post of Twitter links to my
own blog these days! Keep up the great work at Shaping Youth. A
regular read for me.

Ahhhh! Good workaround. I forgot you could actually go in and turn off
the HTML editor. Thanks for the reminder.

Still, wouldn't it be nice if the HTML editor would just leave the
code alone? Sigh.

Nice Jamie thanks for these. Other than Andersons these are all new
titles to me. Last night I also came across another one along the
similar lines that had been recommended to me a long time ago " The
Social Life of Information" by John Seely Brown.

Thanks for that. I do need to test Word out a bit more, but I have to
say my first post using Word turned out pretty clean. I was expecting
a lot of puff code, but none of that came out. But, as I stated in my
response to James above, I didn't do a lot of text formatting or try
things other than insert links into the body of the post. I may find
the code isn't so clean when I start pushing Word a bit.

...and free! nice. That's 2 votes Anderson. Thanks, James

Thanks for the contribution, Kathreen. Anderson is another name I expect I'll be seeing a lot of in my program.