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Category: childhood
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Rulebreaker
Generally speaking, I’m pretty sure I’m Lawful Good. I was raised to be a good girl, and even now I follow rules and stay within laws as best I can – figuring, of course, that there are an awful lot of them and I don’t always know what they are. I’ve mentioned before, I think,…
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Geeky Kids learn Renovation
Over the weekend, we transformed the girls’ bedroom. Friday, beds and everything else came out and the room was cleaned preliminary to gutting it. Sunday evening, beds went back in. Monday morning? Two very excited teens were up bright and early, excited to move all their things back in, hang posters, and bubble over about…
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MoT
My baby turned thirteen yesterday. My Eldest will be 20 in January. Four children in a span of 6 1/2 years, is it any wonder I still can’t wrap my head around how big they have gotten? I spent half a lifetime, it seemed, with babies in diapers, or toddlers, but now they are taller…
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College, Young’Uns, and Ugly Reality Redux
Wolfie read back over his post from Sunday, and sent me a bit more. He had thought he’d do it as a comment, but I’m glad he didn’t! It’s long, but thorough and worth reading. For my adoptive brother-in-spirit, thanks! Wolfie here. Cedar was sitting very hard on the urge to snark at that there…
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The Glittery Unicorns Book List
This list was born out of a question: someone wanted to know what were books we’d recommend for the young lady in his life, to save her from sparkly vampires. I was tagged in the comments, and realized that although I have several lists for boys, I hadn’t done one specifically for girls. This still…
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Autodidactism
I was listening to a podcast presenting a brief biography of Andrew Carnegie the other day, and although I’m somewhat familiar with the man, and very familiar with his legacy of libraries, I think the philosophy that led him to establish more than 2500 libraries bears repeating, and often. He believed that compiling knowledge in a…
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Going On
To follow up with yesterday’s post on very early childhood education, I was looking at photos of my children when they were young, and remembering how they interacted. Because they modeled how they were treated, they taught each other. When the Little Man was 2, and the Eldest was 8 going on nine, she would…
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Begin as You Mean to Go On
I was listening to a podcast on the way to work this morning. The First Reader’s commuter scooter is in the shop, so I made the run from home, to his work, and then back to mine. With a detour to put money in my son’s lunch account as my daughter had texted me to…
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Tea and a Game Review
The Ginja Ninja and I have been talking about doing this for months. We’ve drunk a lot of tea, but haven’t had the time for a game until today, when she came to me and said ‘I’m making tea and I cleaned off the table. You pick the game.” Given that we’ve only got 4…
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Consequence Parenting
The Little Man couldn’t find his favorite sweatjacket this morning. It turned him into the Tasmanian Devil. He was running around the house pulling out drawers, rifling through closets, and yelling back at his sister that he did put it on the coatrack where it was supposed to be. It’s a mystery. I suspect he’ll…
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Vulcan’s Kittens
It’s shameless self-promotion day here on my blog! Wanna read a book? If you have already read it, maybe share this post with a friend who’d enjoy it? Or go leave a review if you haven’t already? And if you have already read it, I’d like to say Thank You! and celebrate the fact that…
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A Gross of Forks
“Can you buy a gross of forks? If it were just the two of us, that would last us about five lifetimes. With the kids, it’ll be lucky if it lasts us five years.” We were standing in the kitchen looking in the silverware drawer, where there is indeed a dearth of forks. I’d found…