Resources...

 

Here is the material on boys I've been using for the past couple of years.  It's important! (right click and "Save Target As..." to download)
"What About the Boys"
 

New songs by Tom Hunter available to download (right click and Save Target As...):
"You Will Know"  (MP3)
"As Human As They Can Be"  (MP3)
"When I'm Stuck"  (MP3)

Last years' Thanksgiving Poem written by Tom Hunter available to download (right click and Save Target As...):
"In These Days of Hype and Lights"

Sheet music (of a blessing) available to download (right click and Save Target As...):
"May the Love of God Fill You"  (PDF)

A word of advice for teachers and families with children in school or about to be in or out of school:  read Jane Healy's book Failure to Connect.   On the surface it's about technology in schools and in education (computers in particular), but it's about more than that.  Often she reaches deep for words worth wondering about:
  "We seem to care more about how fast our children can learn than how deeply they can feel...  Instead of offering children our own thoughtful companionship, we saturate them with the noisy and temporarily self-gratifying objects of an electronic world, hooking them on artificial stimulation and self-gratification.   As we thus drown out their inner voices and their inner selves, should we be surprised if they lack a stable core...  Parents and teachers today must prepare children for an unfamiliar technological frontier, far from traditional choices and boundaries.  Our children will confront the challenge of pushing on humanity's borders, and they will travel in the company of rapidly evolving species of virtual companions.  Not only will their computers be assistants; they may eventually become rivals.  How should we equip our children for this journey?  In the long run, the best preparation may be simply to help them become as human as possible."
 		  

...MORE TO COME