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Idiom: Chin Up - 6 views

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    #1 Janie Leck-Grela on 27 Jan 13
     
    The idiom that I heard growing up and that I still use is 'Chin Up". I have had to explain what it means to my children. It also is a song topic sung in the 1970's animated version of "Charlotte's Web". The song runs through my head when I say chin up to someone. (maybe a few of you know it??) I think it deals with the physical reaction or representation of shame or dejection. The posture of keeping your shin up is supposed to equate to optimism, but in the image on the site I've attached. the child actually looks to be defiant. I like the idea of deifying shame and disappointment with a posture and an attitude.
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Oh So Lovely Vintage: Friday Faves. - 3 views

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      Janie Leck-Grela on 27 Jan 13
       
      My head was always in t he clouds growing up- and even today as an artists. In elementary shcool my teachers would send notes home to my mother reporting : "Janie daydreamed all day and lloked out the windo during class." Partly to being so intrigued with my own ideas or even undiagnosed ADD- I now see that as an asset. So now when my nine year old daughter's teachers report that she is unfocused- I smirk because I know she is just focused on 'something else' just as I was.
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http://www.tuttobimbo.it/resized.php/300x800/images/articoli/cap.jpg - 6 views

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      Janie Leck-Grela on 27 Jan 13
       
      I love this idiom. My three-year old daughter is a head strong curly girl. I had never hear the phrase before- but will use it now! I think it is intersting how we can endear even the most stubborn attributes in the ones we love.
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