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Category: childhood
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Repost: Women and Children First
This was originally published on my blog on Dec 9, 2014, but was lost in the hosting shift. So here it is again, and none the worse for being three years old. If you’re looking for the science and speculation, that’s over on the Mad Genius Club post today, where I continue to talk about…
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Low-Hanging Fruit
I was talking with the Little Man last night, and he was being gloomy. He told me what he wants to do when he grows up: he wants to get a degree in Electrical Engineering and help design a plane that hovers. But then as we were chatting about that and the Arduino kit he…
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Experimentum Periculosum
Continuing with Hippocrates’ pithy philosophical statement, we find that experiment is dangerous. As I am working in a chemistry lab, I have to say that indeed, it is. Even tried and true methods will occasionally fail, and many use dangerous chemicals in the course of carrying out an assay. But yet, we continue. Safety is…
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Snake Hubbub
It was a quiet afternoon here at the writer’s house. It was sunny, but not too warm, it was Friday, and relaxation was happening. Well, I was relaxing, at least. I was torn from my contemplation of the story I was writing by an excited voice. The girls are as big as I am now.…
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Tea and a Game: June Review
So here we are with another edition of the review with my daughter of a tea, and a game. You may recall we started this series last month, with Wild Plum Tea and Batman Dice. This month, we were traveling when we did the tea and a game, which added a layer of complexity to…
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Geeky Kids Review Wonder Woman
The Otaku Princess and Junior Mad Scientist have now seen Wonder Woman – twice, in fact, and the second time in 3D. They really wanted to do a review on my blog, and I’m glad, as I have not yet had a chance to see it – and may not, with the schedule around here.…
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Playing at Teatime
Last night as my daughter and I were playing a game and trying out a new tea, I jokingly suggested that when she goes off to college, I should send her a tea every month. Mama’s tea of the month club! Her eyes lit up. “You know what we should do? We should try out…
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Chore Lists
Keeping a house running takes a lot of work, and with both parents working full time outside the house, the kids can help. Motivation can sometimes be difficult… Rather than pay the kids allowances, I’m coming up with special chores they can do, and be paid for. They have some that they are expected to…
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Peep Roast
Over the weekend we hosted a campout at our house – four little boys running around, tents in the yard, and a campfire (safely confined to the metal fire bowl on the patio). I’d promised my girls we could roast peeps, which they wanted to do mostly for the amusement factor of watching them burn.…
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[Repost] Hold my Beer and Watch This
Part of my effort to dig up some of the old posts that became unlinked when I switched hosts. And because I have no time before work this morning. It’s a topic worth revisiting for discussion, though. There is some debate over what jobs men and women are best at. In the current cultural push…
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Sticks and Swords
One of my daughters has decided that she wants a sword. She was at CincyCon most of yesterday, playing games and being as much a social butterfly as she ever is (the Junior Mad Scientist, as I’m sure will surprise none of you, is more a social caterpillar. Maybe a social pupa, all wrapped up…
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Lego my Men
I’m blogging to you from the kitchen counter. I decided that it was better late than never, when it came to this post, so while I am keeping a half an eye on dinner, I’m writing this post on my tablet. We’re having pierogis and sloppy joes. Not, to my relief, sloppy joe sauce on…