Mental Math Progress
Wow, right? One of the cool things about mental math is that it's easy to practice. Recently I've taken to asking him to square numbers while I'm driving in the [...]
The Rising Anti-School Tide
There were over 300 kids, who are educated *outside the system* in New York City, at this year's Central Park picnic. Last year there were substantially less. And I heard [...]
Making Reading Fun
The other night my wife and I dropped our kids off at their grandmother's at 6:45pm....so we could go out to dinner. Now our kids are NEVER without books to [...]
Post-Launch Cruising
I strongly believe that parents ought to invest or put effort into their children when they are very, very young BECAUSE this is where all the payoff lies. The heights [...]
Education Gamification?
Wikipedia defines gamification thusly: Gamification is the use of game design techniques, game thinking and game mechanics to enhance non-game contexts. Typically gamification applies to non-game applications and processes, in [...]
Back-To-School Planning?
It certainly means different things to different parents. For some, it's simply a matter of buying bigger clothes, a new lunchbox, and perhaps some notebooks and writing implements. However for [...]
A Day In The Life – 1
One of the things my wife and I find ourselves continually doing is - describing to others what exactly it is we do on a daily basis, in terms of [...]
Spoiled Brats or Incompetent Parents?
From a recent New Yorker article: In 2004, Carolina Izquierdo, an anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, spent several months with the Matsigenka, a tribe of [...]