Children | Children
Nov.01.2008
I homeschool my kids - or rather, I just started to this year (my oldest is in first grade). There are probably more ways to homeschool than most people imagine, and I won't go into detail here; roughly, in our case, we fit our coursework around the more scheduled world of sport programs and...
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Oct.31.2008
A landmark lawsuit has been launched in Vancouver, B.C. this week. ("Sperm donor wants to know who's got his genes," by Robert Matas, www.globeandmail.com, Oct. 31, 2008).) While Dwight Jones, 64, the subject of the newspaper article, is featured as a donor of 300 to 400 sperm samples who...
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Oct.06.2008
My two little guys got their hair cut today, Charlie for the first time. They hated it. No amount of toys or signing would keep them from batting at the lady with her scissors and her comb. Charlie confiscated the comb. The lady gave us an envelop with his little scraps of hair in it.
The Intersex...
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Oct.02.2008
When you are the parent of a small child, strange and wonderful situations will arise when you least expect it.
For example, my daughter is almost four years old and loves to use my computer. To be honest, she has special programs for children which she uses. Stuff like "Jump Start";...
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Sep.30.2008
Raise your hand if you love to read. Yes, we're a gathering of authors and I'm willing to bet that each of us had the love of reading encouraged at an early age. I remember escaping into books early on. My mother taught me to read long before I was of school age. One of the stand-out days of my...
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Sep.26.2008
A few months ago, I was reading my O Magazine, and came across one of Oprah's tips, a company called ScanCafe that offered a basic service I needed: send them your boxes of old photos and negatives, and they would scan them, allow you to pick the ones you wanted, and then transfer the chosen ones...
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Sep.23.2008
When I met Michael, we had three children in the area, one of whom lived with me (mine, of course). His two children lived with their mother, but we had children around and about us. They weren't children, really, but teenagers, young adults, just about there adults. But then my youngest son...
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Sep.19.2008
My friend Gil Mansergh did his master's thesis on creativity in children, and his e-mail brought up some interesting points. He said:
"Researchers have attempted to quantify 'creativity' for over 80 years, but so far, no test administered to children has proven to accurately predict who will...
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Sep.18.2008
In this age of political correctness, there’s a child’s book designed to help our youngsters feel that however unusual their circumstances, they’re not unique or abnormal. If these books don’t already exist, we’ll soon come across:
When Daddy Becomes Mommy: new dress up clothes for meHow To Play...
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Sep.18.2008
My 8-year-old son came home from school the other day and told me that when he's 18, he plans to spend half his salary on the lottery.
"What?" I ask.
I don't play the lottery. Neither does my husband. Well, OK, maybe he does a few times a year when the jackpot prize for Megabucks is...
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