Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Emotional development, Play, Safety, School and education on Apr 14th, 2010
As regular readers might remember Katelyn learned to ride her bike a few weeks ago. As of this past weekend she was doing really well, but still needed to master some of the more difficult aspects of the task: turns, getting started on her own, weaving. So on Saturday I set out to teach her. [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Play, parenting on Mar 11th, 2010
Yesterday I decided to take the 20 minutes between when the big girl got off the bus and when the sitter came to try the whole bike riding thing again. Katelyn was thrilled. “No screaming,” she promised. We started down the street. She was shaky, but doing much better than she did the day before. [...]
Posted in Education on Feb 2nd, 2010
It’s probably no secret that I was not a fan of Bush — either one. And from what we know from polls, the way the election went down, world sentiment, I am not alone in my dislike of these two men and their policies. One of the things I disliked the most was the second [...]
