Posted in Ponderings, tagged The American Worker, The Nanny State, Unemployment Benefits, Welfare Benefits on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Tuesday, Rome interviewed five people for warehouse jobs. If hired, these folks would be doing order fulfillment and packaging of orders for shipping. His boss gave him three math questions to ask each interviewee.
How many inches are there in a foot?
How many square inches are there in a square foot?
What is a square?
The purpose [...]
Posted in Educating the Whippersnappers, tagged Carole Joy Seid, Charlotte Mason on May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Papa book (or Daddy book)
Basically, this is the book that is read by the parent who isn’t home all day long. If there’s a stay-at-home dad and the wife works outside the home, then this would be the Mommy book. The idea works like this. Who-ever spends the least amount of time at home–their [...]
Posted in Educating the Whippersnappers, The Well Educated Mind, tagged Carole Joy Seid, Charlotte Mason on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’d also like to talk about the gems that I took away with me from the Carole Joy Seid Seminar on a Literature Based Education.
Reading to children doesn’t stop when the kids can read for themselves.
I think as busy people, this is a mistake we make. We read to the kids until they can read for themselves [...]
Posted in Educating the Whippersnappers on May 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On Memorial Day, we headed out to Travel Town in Griffith Park. I don’t think I’d been there since grade school. Travel Town, as I remembered it, was a place with old train cars fully furnished in their glory. I remember climbing into cars as a kid that had velvet upholstery and polished wood walls, [...]
Posted in Product Plug, Product Review on May 25, 2009 | 7 Comments »
OK, for those of you who have HUGE tomato patches (no, I’m not envious; not at all), I’m passing along this plug. And no, I don’t have stock in Costco, so there!
Costco / Kirkland sells Rustic Tuscan Seasoning and I gotta say that it makes sliced tomatoes — which you have to admit are already [...]
Posted in Educating the Whippersnappers, The Well Educated Mind, tagged Carole Joy Seid, Charlotte Mason on May 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Rome and I went to a Carole Joy Seid seminar last Saturday. I walked in with strong Charlotte Mason leanings thinking I would walk out a Charlotte Mason devotee. (Charlotte Mason was a 19th century British educator). But I didn’t. The seminar wasn’t what I was expecting. It was called A Literature Based Approach to Education and I guess I [...]
Posted in Children on May 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Three year olds are highly imitative and fantastically want to be like their mommies… hence the conversation I just had with Kate that went something like this.
Kate: [I want a] Diaper
Me: Only babies wear diapers
Kate: You’re wearing a diaper.
And by child logic, I was. So Katie just got her first run down of menses.
And I promised [...]
Posted in Educating the Whippersnappers on May 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
They’re here! (500 1-cm-thick wood pattern blocks)
Singing:
They’re here. They’re here. They’re here. They’re here. They’re here. They’re here. They’re here. They’re here. They’re here. They’re here. They’re here. They’re here. They’re here. They’re here.
A special thanks goes out to Grandma and Christine for this gift.
I’m just too excited thinking about all the math fun we’re going [...]
Posted in Parenting on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
About once a week, I do a long slow nap prep. I thow Kate into bed, Oliver into a play crib, and turn on taped stories that I get from the library. Kate is allowed to play in bed in a calm, getting ready for bed way.
Then the puttering begins. I sanitize her potty; I put [...]
Posted in On-Line Scrapbook, Photos for Grandparents, Ponderings on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The day before Mothers’ Day, we went to Babushka’s house for tea. Out came the samovar. Now, a full and proper samovar needs to have both a tray for collecting ashes and a chimney to help with air-flow. We have neither the proper tray nor the proper chimney.
Roman filled the tube that goes down the [...]
