There were a couple of really great passages today in Gene Weingarten’s online chat on the Washington Post site. Here’s a tidbit:
We are coming up on the 16th anniversary of the greatest correction ever to run in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. It sprang from a story that ran in the old North Fulton Extra on Sept. 17, 1987 about a Girl Scout program aimed at teaching girls about careers, drug awareness and prevention of pregnancy and it contained this passage:
“Mrs. Hamby, who is entering her first year as a Cadette leader, but her fifth year as a troop leader, said troop leaders are not experts on the new interests of Girl Scouts. So they take the girls on field trips where experts can present the information. “It’s not really a point where you sit down and talk to them about sensitive subjects,” she said. Instead, troop leaders take girls to places like a sperm bank where programs are designed to inform girls of sexual education in terms they can understand.”
A few days later the following correction was published:
“A paragraph in a story about Girl Scouts in the Thursday edition of the North Fulton Extra should have stated that troop leaders take girls to places such as Fernbank Science Center, where programs are designed to inform girls of sexual education in terms they can understand.”
The rest of the chat is great too, check it out!
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Sex education is really a need to each and everyone of us, not to teach us but to understand it more.
I wish to wish all pregnant women of good mood, easy pregnancy and natural sorts!
Good luck also are happy! Give birth easily and independently! Let not doctors give birth for you, and you!
Also adjust itself on chest feeding of the kid! Read the necessary information!
Be, lovely pregnant mums and expecting posterities of the daddy, are healthy and wise!
I love Gene Weingarten. Always many fresh and wise ideas. Thank you for the chat!
It was a funny mistake, but a sperm bank can be as useful as a science center. They both have professional doctors that know how to educate people on the sexuality matter. But coming back to the story: It was a funny joke, but I can't help myself from laughing because I imagine the father's face or the mother's when they read the newspaper.
It was a funny mistake, but a sperm bank can be as useful as a science center. They both have professional doctors that know how to educate people on the sexuality matter. But coming back to the story: It was a funny joke, but I can't help myself from laughing because I imagine the father's face or the mother's when they read the newspaper.
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