Avant Parenting Archives
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Avant! Welcome to my parenting blog archives
As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated. However, there’s lots of good stuff here, much of it as true now as when it was written. Please feel free to browse, or follow these links: One last piece of parenting advice: Enjoy today even if it’s a rough…
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Some thoughts about our sacred holiday, Labor Day
Labor Day is one heckuva holiday. First of all, your kids have probably already started back at school. What’s with starting school before Labor Day? In my day, Labor Day was the end of summer. It had meaning. Now what does it mean? It means it’s still summer, but your kids are stuck in school…
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Those early years
I was speaking with a mom on the phone. It was a business call of sorts, but since we know each other and she knows I’m sympathetic, she called while her kids were in the tub. As you can imagine, our call was punctuated with instructions to her kids, the sounds of splashing, and kids…
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PIWA for a six-year-old
In Growing Up in Santa Cruz this month I wrote an article about Positive Impact Wrestling Academy (PIWA). [Read the article here.] This organization is the brainchild of Reggie Roberts, the wrestling coach at Aptos High. When after years of working in substandard facilities he finally got to move his wrestlers into a well-equipped facility,…
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Learning to live with our biology
Someone forwarded a New York Times article about successful dyslexics to an e-mail list I’m on. The article is about the high proportion of successful entrepreneurs who are dyslexic. According to the article, it’s likely that these people are successful because of and/or in spite of their disability. One of the people featured, Paul Orfalea,…
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Making do with life
So a while back I wrote about how we got tickets to go see King Tut. I was sequestered in the deepest reaches of the Midwest the last time he came around, so I was particularly interested in seeing the exhibit this time around. Little did I know it would turn into a homeschooling lesson…