I love sugar. I really really love sugar. I generally think of dinner as something I have to endure to get to dessert. In March of this year I stared a monthly cookie/dessert exchange where my friends and I get together under the pretext of exchanging cookies/desserts and their recipes but it’s actually just an [...]
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 [...]
Here’s some news that will go against conventional wisdom. There are substantial risks to telling your child that he or she is smart. This totally contracts the cultural wisdom—Mom 101 is, I think, that you are supposed to fill your child up with unconditional positive regard, and many of us do that with labels like [...]
For new parents, it’s difficult to know if an infant’s behavior is normal, or if the difficulties you are facing are a sign that something is wrong. It must be frustrating not to be able to communicate with your baby and find out exactly what’s bothering him or her. This is where Derek Ogilive says he can [...]
Steven Levitt, of Freakonomics, gave a fascinating talk about car seats. Apparently, for kids over the age of two, car seats don’t really work much better than the regular old seat belts that are in our cars—free!
I’m a huge fan of Levitt, and getting to see him, in all his nerdly lispiness, is really a [...]