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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Math Stories: Fun, Deep Learning for Elementary Students
Readers: This is an update and consolidation of previous posts on this topic. Hopefully I’ve gotten all the resources in here! It started one night when my seven-year-old daughter explained to her father how you can determine the number of faces in a geometric solid from the number of points. I’d ordered a Sir Cumference…
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Santa Cruz Families March for Women… and all of us
Interviews by Suki Wessling Photographs by Abe Jellinek Click on photos to see them full-size. If ever all of Santa Cruz gathered for a big family photo, this would have been the day. On January 21, the day after the inauguration of a president that Santa Cruzans overwhelmingly voted against, whose platform contradicts nearly every…
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RIP, Gentle Giant
A short note for a sad event: The largest old-growth redwood in Nisene Marks State Park (otherwise known as our wonderful backyard) is gone. It fell over in a recent storm. Following are some pictures. Hoping that if the old-growth redwoods behind our house meet a similar fate, they fall down the hill, not toward…
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Our approach to Internet safety
I think that overall taking part in creative communities and finding people to share interests online is an extremely positive experience for most kids. That said, in our family we use our values and experience to try to create a balance in our online lives.
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The great hunt
Each year my family awaits the December holidays for a number of reasons. One of the major ones involves tramping around hillsides like this one: Searching the forest floor, which looks like this: for a certain sort of gold, otherwise known as chanterelles. Here are a few that we found today: They don’t look like…