Inez and John were already up in New York for the past 2.5 weeks - out in Southampton - spending QT with her family, especially her 87.5 year old mother. Chrissy was going to join them. And at her age, 15, she can technically fly up from Florida all by herself. But at the [...]
On Saturday Inez and I flew from Fort Myers, FL to Las Vegas (via Charlotte). When we arrived at the car rental place we were terrified to see 100 people in line ahead of us! Inez tried to scramble to another line-less agency but they wanted $2,400 to rent a car for the week. Well, [...]
First visit - Riding Pachyderms in Chiang Mai, Thailand for context if you haven't already. Wednesday We flew 1 hr 40 min from Chiang Mai at nearly the top of Thailand, 754 miles south to almost the bottom, just above Malaysia. Phuket is beach destination. After 15 months of un-tropical London....we were very much [...]
Our second winter trip was to Zermatt, Switzerland. My wife wanted to see the Alps up close (she's seen them from a plane, aplenty)....and it was sort of an obvious "winter" trip in Europe. Zermatt, in the winter anyway, is a serious ski town. But we don't ski! Although we did actually buy ski pants [...]
I STRONGLY believe that Minecraft is a horrible thing. The number of shiftless teens and young adults who are addicted to the tune of 12+ hours a day is troubling enough. But I submit even worse are the younger kids who are inhaling this poisonous mind drug. Of course these kids are completely enabled by [...]
Sorry. We've been so busy that I haven't had time to update... Week 2 We finally had our belongings delivered from the States! Our PCs, the piano keyboard, our kitchen stuff, the rest of our clothing, our books and workbooks,... It was only then that I discovered how much my daughter and my wife OVERPACKED! [...]
As a math tutor, I'm routinely summoned by frantic parents, "My son/daughter has a big test this week....can you please come to help them study?" Sure. That's my job - or at least one of them. But all too often I'm disgusted by the test material. Schools and "certified" teachers torture these poor kids with [...]
Fast forward to about 4.5 minutes into the clip: I myself am not so optimistic about his ultimate forecast.
A few weeks ago my son solved the Rubik's Cube! No, he certainly didn't figure it all on his own. He followed the instructions on their website. Nonetheless, it still took several hours, some sweat, and certainly some tears. I would say it took him one 4 hour session - which was interrupted several times [...]
More times than I can count I've met young parents who are very "warm" to the idea and the benefits of educating their kids completely outside the system. BUT they simply can't pull the trigger. Despite the 19 positive reasons they admit, all too often a single negative reason or unwarranted fear stops them in [...]
