Category: Parenting
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From Now Until It Isn’t
Is it a prerogative of youth that allows children to think that they can change the laws of the universe? Or are my children particularly stubborn? We all know that children don’t believe in physics. Each and every time they land on the ground, having fallen out of a tree or off a swingset, they…
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Modern Parenting Skills
My mother and I just bought the same type of camera. This was not planned. Little coincidences like these run through our lives in unpredictable little rivulets. My mother got hers yesterday, and I got mine today. So my mother has been sending me advice. First piece of advice: the strap is very hard to…
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Empire State Egg Drop
More on the visual-spacial learning style. I’m reading Visual-Spacial Learners by Alexandra Shires Golon. She gives a lot of pointers about how to identify the visual-spacial learner — one of the uses of the book is for classroom teachers to identify and help their visual spacial learners. VSLs, as a general category, are people who…
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Another Day in the Life
Yesterday I got up to no e-mail and no cellphone reception! Oh, horrors! How could I survive? Good thing the kids and I had decided that on this day of our “Staycation,” we would go to the Aquarium. So without further ado or hair-pulling, we were off to Monterey, where they had both Internet access…
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Too Much Time on her Hands
Some people have too much time on their hands. This is a pretty broad statement that includes a lot of people, but today it’s pointed at Judith Warner of the New York Times. She wrote the sort of article that people write when they want to get other people incensed. Not, I will point out,…