Thank you for your comments. I have so appreciated your support. Although I understand your worry, as a regular listener of your show I have grown to know and trust your response and reaction to books. I think the way you go about sharing your wondering about the kinds of conversations you are having or want to have with your girls demonstrates that you see yourself as a reflective learner in the process of talking about books. You aren’t claiming to be an authority but someone who enjoys talking about books and that comes through nicely in your show.

I think it is wonderful that we have grown this friendship through this world of podcasting!

Always looking forward to more JOMB!

hugs
vivian

Another great topic. Another thought provoking show.

I missed your show last night and have to admit I was scared when I read your shownotes today at work — hoping none of our favourites were on the “to avoid” list. We have a large number of books in our collection which feature aboriginal families and it would be sad to learn I was doing more harm than good by including them regularly in our girls’ lives. Also, although some of these are among our family’s favourites, I’ve been very hesitant to include them in JOMB, just in case we were laughing in the wrong places or in case they were somehow representing aboriginal people poorly. The good news is that none of them on the “to avoid”, and most of them on the “suggested” list. The not so good news is that,after listening to your show today, I am actually more scared than ever to discuss these books in our podcast. An interesting quagmire…

On a much lighter note, thanks a tonne for mentioning us in your show and in your show notes!

Congrats on one month. Keep on keeping on!!
Andrea

Yes - Dianne blew me away from the start. At the moment my plan is to follow up show#5 with at least a couple more shows that pick up on the issues raised through Dianne’s segment and Arigon’s song.

I’d love to hear what other’s think about this and what these thoughts lead other listeners to do…explore…reconsider…

Thanks again C.
vivian

Another great topic. Another thought provoking show.

I missed your show last night and have to admit I was scared when I read your shownotes today at work — hoping none of our favourites were on the “to avoid” list. We have a large number of books in our collection which feature aboriginal families and it would be sad to learn I was doing more harm than good by including them regularly in our girls’ lives. Also, although some of these are among our family’s favourites, I’ve been very hesitant to include them in JOMB, just in case we were laughing in the wrong places or in case they were somehow representing aboriginal people poorly. The good news is that none of them on the “to avoid”, and most of them on the “suggested” list. The not so good news is that,after listening to your show today, I am actually more scared than ever to discuss these books in our podcast. An interesting quagmire…

On a much lighter note, thanks a tonne for mentioning us in your show and in your show notes!

Congrats on one month. Keep on keeping on!!
Andrea