As much fun as it is to take the whole family on an astronomy outing, it’s easy to find fun astronomy tools at home, too — for free on the Internet! Today my kids would like to recommend to you some of their favorites. To give credit where credit is due, my husband found all [...]
I often wonder how what I am interested in, and am therefore sharing with my kids, will affect their interests when they are adults.
I’m interested in science, so I talk about it frequently. My husband is good at math, and often talks about that. The kids are little sponges, listening to all this talk. We [...]
I thought I’d briefly share some thoughts after our five-month-old son’s first visit to the emergency room. He had an attack of croup Friday night. Well, really, it was early Saturday morning, and we had to drive over to the ER at 2:30 a.m.
When my daughter caught her first cold in the daycare at the YMCA, people told me that it was, in the long run, a good thing. Getting sick now, they said, would build her immune system and make her stronger. If it didn’t happen in daycare, then it’d happen in preschool. No matter how much [...]
lead elder: Harmless? It is this kind of backsliding that has brought the scarcity upon us!
a foreign penguin: Excuse me smiley, could you speak plain penguin please?
Mumble: He thinks the food shortage has something to do with me.
lead elder: Do you not understand that we can only survive here when [...]
My kids are really into the solar system these days. As I mentioned in Love of Learning, they’ve been drawing and coloring pictures of the solar system, and lately they’ve taken to playing with toy planets and inventing their own imaginary planetary system (called “the imaginary solar system” — it includes two “Giant Earths,” [...]
I must admit I’ve had a lot of trouble approaching this post. So maybe it’s best to just come right to the point: I’m a diehard breast feeder myself, but I dislike the way formula is demonized.
I love nursing, and I’ve really enjoyed that aspect of being a mom. I have not [...]
I’ve been away from this blog for a while as my daughter recuperated from surgery. Over the course of her hospital stay, we encountered some weirdness, and I’m curious as to whether I am merely sleep-deprived and stressed, or whether this was really irrational. This is the group to ask.
My daughter’s surgery was predicted to result [...]