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PAGE 4 ■ FRIDAY, MARCH 9,2007
OPINIONS
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Coping with the pitfalls of ‘pre-parenting’
Log on to www.sealynews.com to let your voice be heard.
We will bring you the results of this poll and a new question every Friday.
MIKE
EDDLEMAN
Editor & Publisher
Editor & Publisher
Managing Editor
Sports Writer
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idea.
I’ve become obsessed with chil-
dren’s books. I’ve always been a
book lover, the shelves and boxes
of them at my home can confirm
that, but now I prefer to go look at
the children’s books. Which books
will best keep my child’s attention
and help them learn and grow?
Which ones will they enjoy most?
So I sit in the book section and
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The Sealy News is posing the following question to
our readers this week:
Last Week's Question was:
Do you think the federal government is on the
right track with its current welfare system?
Yes-1.9 percent
No - 98.1 percent
Do you think the SISD board’s decision to
select and interim superintendent from with
the administration was the right choice?
-, +Yes
•No
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SEALY NEWS
Serving Sealy and Austin County since 1887
(USPS 487260)
Editorial
Sealy ISD issues remain
community's top concern
You may have noticed the front challenge.
page of this issue is dominated by The state is watching over
stories from our school district. Sealy and the R4 Group has come
Recent issues have been full of in to help make instruction
news - pleasant and not so pleas- changes to ensure Sealy ISD gets
ant - from our school district, but back on its feet and achieves the
there’s a good reason. academic excellence everyone
We are in the midst of a very says they want.
critical period with our school dis- We also must not forget the
trict, and there is no issue more news we all truly want to see -
important across our community, the impressive accomplishments
We are facing an upcoming of our students as they reach all-
board election that to date state band, perform a musical,
includes six candidates for three compete in academic competition
seats. and win on the field of play.
We are trying to recover from That said, it is hard to imagine
the embarrassment of how our the school district not dominating
outgoing superintendent was news in the paper. It is critical
treated during his short stay in the community be informed at
our community, every turn and understand the
We are searching for a new changes being made and why as
superintendent, who will have to we work through this challenging
focus on hiring an assistant time.
superintendent as one of his or The Sealy News believes there
her first tasks. is nothing more important to the
Take these personnel and elec- future of our community than the
tion issues and pile them on top students we educate today,
of our unacceptable rating and Making sure our readers know
the changes taking place withour and understand how that is being
curriculum and you have what accomplished is a task we take
appears to be an overwhelming very seriously.
Let me begin this column, by
saying sometimes I can be very
weak.
Sometimes I feel a need for levi-
ty in the newspaper, and with all
the things Sealy is dealing with
right now, this is one of those
times.
Where my weakness comes in is
my inability to keep some things while Kelly was working Saturday
to myself. Many around town so I began thumbing through it.
know that my wife Kelly and I are It is mostly all about moms, but thumb through all kinds, evaluat-
expecting our first child in the article that caught my atten- ing them according to some arbi-
September. tion was headlined something like trary standard I would not be able
We debated when to tell people “Five ways to make sure dad con- to explain to anyone.
and how to tell them. We consid- nects with his new baby”. I'm trying to determine whether
ered waiting, but we didn’t. I also Is that a problem? I started I could teach a girl to love baseball
said I would not write about it in wondering if I would have a prob- as I do or convince a boy to not rip
the newspaper, but I am. lem connecting with my baby. It holes in the couch as I did.
I do not want this to sound bad, puts a lump in your throat to con- I'm consumed with the chal-
but my defense is this is about me, sider really. Isn’t my baby sup- lenge of being a good parent and it
not my wife. I say this because she posed to cry for its dad’s attention is a funny feeling to have when
does not want to be the center of right away? Aren’t I supposed to you know nothing about it.
any ramblings on pregnancy or be the fun guy to be with? Kelly’s standard response to my
future parenthood and I do not So I’m sitting at home evaluat- growing list of fears is a noll of the
blameher. ing how I would be as a parent, eyes.
Kelly is very excited, as am I, wringing my hands over an issue I get lots of reassurance but
but the levity I am talking about that may never happen. even more laughter - primarily
is how many strange and some- That’s what I do now. I evaluate from my sister - regarding my
times dumb things I have become potential situations and decisions predicament, but I guess in the
preoccupied with since we learned and judge my parenting skills - end I fall into the same category
our good news. though my parenting skills have as most every other parent. I
It is strange to have this sense been limited to three dogs I can’t know I will love my child in a way
of anxiety. Kelly is really doing even keep off the couch. I’ve never loved anyone and I will
all the work right now, I am just I’ve been very wrapped up in the hope to be the best parent possi-
left to wait, and that’s probably fear of having a girl and having to hle.
what gets me. I am a “pre-parent” take her to the bathroom in pub- I am comforted by the knowl-
and it is a trip into the unknown lie. Many have laughed at me over edge that my wife - who has man-
that requires patience I often this fear, but I am still terrified of aged to focus on more practical
lack. the thought of taking my daughter issues than I - will do the same,
We got our first issue of into a men’s room. I’ve been in without the same strange anxi-
Parenting magazine in the mail plenty and I just don’t like the eties I have.
The media spotlight is more of yours and mine? Actions of Price and his family didn’t for district.
crucial than ever in carrying ordinary citizens to reclaim a moment consider what dire What thanks did he get for
those voices, which “better our government have never consequences their actions trying to act in the best inter-
positioned forces in the gover- been more important than may very likely bring about. est of the students?
nor’s mansion” will attempt now. The Sealy ISD is already in Mistreatment and criminal
to silence and discredit. Contact local members of a very bad position with the acts. Being referred to as a
There is also a growing per- this community who are help- state, and at this point, risks carpetbagger is an unfair and
ception among city dwellers ing to inform Austin, Grimes, losing accreditation. Dr. Price incorrect assessment. His
that the words “better mobili- Waller, Wharton and Fort came to us on good faith and time with the school district
ty, innovative transportation Bend Counties to receive an attempted to make changes is now ended not because he
solutions, privatization, etc.” information sheet of steps to in order to correct the prob- is “here today and gone
do not guarantee that the take and contacts to make. lem. tomorrow,” but because he
policies and assurances bear- I am one; together we are My husband and I met with was railroaded by people with
ing those high sounding many. him last year regarding con- small-minded attitudes
phrases are based on fact or Martha Estes, cerns of our then freshman regarding education.
are the best solutions to Working For son. He responded to our con- Make no mistake, Sealy
implement to improve trans- Accountable Government cerns immediately. We were ISD is going to be in worse
portation. The public good is quite impressed with Dr. trouble because of the loss of
not being served. Dear Editor: Price and applauded the Dr. Price at such a critical
What will you do to foster a It’s unconscionable that the changes he proposed. We time for the district.
healthier atmosphere where people who committed the agreed that the high school Sincerely,
“for the people” begins to res- crimes against needed change and more David and Patty
onate once more in this state Superintendent Dr. Thomas supervision from the school Bowman
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LETTERS To The Editor
Dear Editor: action to protect our funda-
I am a little ol’ lady in ten- mental principles. They are
nis shoes who can read and on the line in the form of the
think for myself and remem- Trans-Texas Corridors.
bers that this is my state gov- It has been a long road to
ernment. travel to reach a day (March
In 30 years in Texas public 1-2 in Austin) when the
school classrooms, I taught earplugs and blinders are
my 6th-graders “what propa- beginning to be cast down by
ganda looks like, smells like some of our courageous elect-
and feels like” and that there ed officials like Senators
is a process for citizens to use Carona, Ogden and Eltife and
to address “wrong-headed” Representatives Kolkhorst,
policies and laws we think Leibowitz and Joe Pitts, etc.,
are unjust. who accept their parts in los-
I have never believed more ing the “monsters” (Trans-
than I do today in my fight Texas Corridors and toll poli-
against the transportation cies) and have vowed to help
“vision of the Governor.” I put things right with hear-
believe in “God we trust,” I ings and legislation this ses-
believe in “we the people,” sion.
and I am convinced it is our Such declarations guaran-
duty and privilege to take tee that the battle is joined.
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