Category: The Activist
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Today was Saturday (the Johnson family’s blessed day of rest) so we ventured out to a "park" some friends had told us about located on our "end of town". I put the word park in quotation marks because in typical Chinese fashion it resembled something more akin to a "square" or "plaza" than an American-style…
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"I would never want to do that to myself." Anna (The Activist) Johnson On witnessing the evil queen from Disney’s Snow White guzzling the potion which turned her into a hunchbacked hag.
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I’ve told you all about Anna’s sphere-a-phelia. Well, we recently discovered that sometimes one’s greatest affliction can become a source of great strength. Through the power of the sphere, Anna has now cured herself of another (more socially stigmatizing) addiction: thumb sucking! It’s an AMAZING accomplishment and even though she’s been completely cured for a…
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At what point do you start to ask yourself whether your child’s somewhat idiosnycratic behavior might actually be a more serious (psychological) condition? I’m speaking a bit tongue-in-cheek here when I ask this question, but I think you’ll see that I can make a pretty good case to show that my eldest daughter (Anna, age…
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I think this is pretty cool how willing my kids are to try new things when it comes to eating. Most parents wrestle with their kids trying to get them to eat a bit of broccoli or green beans, but (as we have witnessed) Anna is not afraid to eat new (often bizarre) things. For…
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Walking with Anna today she said to me: "Daddy, let me know if you see any monks, OK?" I’m thinking this is not a typical thing for a four-year-old American child to ask…but then again what about Anna’s life thusfar is "typical"? After this we had a very interesting conversation about Tibetan monks.
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As you can see here, the girls really enjoyed getting some goodies from back home today. (Thanks, Mom & Dad. Our coffee supply ran out this week…shoooo, that was a close one!)
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You’ll have to let me know if you are able to watch this short video clip?
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Me: So, Anna, what’s your favorite day of the year? Anna: Every day that I don’t have to go to school. I think I was the same way when I was a kid. I did well in school but I didn’t enjoy it very much. I think it’s because school is too early in the…
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she’s hopped up on sweets
yeti speak... 