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May 25, 2009
DIY Memory Game
Playing games with your children is a chance to bond, play and even teach while having fun. This do it yourself memory game is super fast to make, and even toddlers can play!
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January 23, 2009
Talking it up
Yesterday was a first for me. I took my little iBook laptop--the hand-me-down one I got from my mom when she upgraded her laptop--to T.’s speech therapy appointment and I finished this column, worked on a syllabus for a class, and tinkered with some ideas for future posts. It’s not that I haven’t thought about taking the laptop to T.'s appointments before, or thought about that golden sliver of time--those precious 45 minutes of uninterrupted quiet time to work. [more]
November 19, 2008
Unplug those kids!
The other day I was in the waiting room at T.'s speech therapy place, grading papers and waiting for T.'s 45-minute session to end. T. was in the back with her speech therapist, and I was trying to make the most of the precious 45 minutes of child-free time I had. There were a few other parents there, in a waiting room littered with toys and books and puzzles. One mom, whom I had never seen before, was also waiting there with her young daughter, while her older child finished his therapy session. The little girl was about T.'s age. [more]
June 20, 2008
Arms and the boy
Ever since my son discovered Avi a few weeks ago, and Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, and The Famous Five, it's been all spies and good guys vs. bad guys, and intricate scenes of smuggling and treasure-snatching being enacted all across his bedroom floor. [more]
February 5, 2008
Facing Facebook
Yesterday a student from last semester stopped by to say hi and chat a bit. Hey! He told me, smiling broadly. I saw you on Facebook the other day!
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