Last week I told you all about what a pain in the butt Rosetta Stone software can be and how outrageously overpriced it is. This week I’m going to tell you why, if you’re really dedicated, Rosetta Stone might just be the method you need. The bottom line is that Rosetta Stone is doing something [...]
Hello again! We continue with our series of State Birds & Flowers. Today we have: Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota and Tennessee. As always, click over the image to get the PDF version you can print. Check out the rest of the series and our previous coloring sheets here. Thank you [...]
The boys and I put a jigsaw puzzle together yesterday. I had forgotten how much fun they are and the immense sense of satisfaction I get from the completion of one. Up until now the only puzzles the boys have built have been a variety of awesome Melissa and Doug brand puzzles, the ones with [...]
I finished Rosetta Stone German Level 1 today. Rosetta Stone doesn’t say how long it should take a person to finish the first level of a language, but my guess is that 1 month is a realistic estimate. Some days I spent 3 hours studying, others got just an hour of my time. Then there [...]
Hello! Welcome back to our State Birds & Flowers series. Today we have: North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma. As always click over the image to get the PDF version you can print. Visit our previous coloring sheets here. Thank you for visiting. Enjoy! Cardinal & Flowering Dogwood [...]
Whenever my boys spend a few hours wantonly playing and running around like idiots, it’s hard to get them to sit still. It’s even harder to ask them a serious question and get a serious answer. Their brains and bodies are so wired up that the only remedy is a few minutes of quiet. [...]
Last week I was trying to figure out nouns and pronouns. Well – I’m still at it, but now I think I’m making progress. After reading excerpts of advice on the subject from various grammar books I have decided that learning the Dative, Accusative, Nominative and Genitive cases is important but that it will [...]
Everyone knows million, billion, and trillion. But not many people know what comes next. My son and his best friend were having this discussion last week about it. Sam, the friend, insisted the illion is zillion. Neil came to me later and said “Hey, Dad! What comes after trillion?” I said, “I don’t know. Tell [...]
Listening to negativity is hard, and the only difference between kid negativity and adult negativity is that you can walk away from other adults, leaving them to work out their own problems. You can’t walk away from your kids; you’re stuck with the job of fixing the bad attitude. What, then, do you do [...]
We continue with our series of State Birds & Flowers. Today we have the news, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York. As always, click over the image to get the printable PDF. Checkout our pervious coloring sheets here. Thank you for visiting. Enjoy! Purple Finch & Lilac [...]
When the boys were babies and I spent my days pushing them around town in my now disused double stroller, random seniors would stop me just to say how precious they were and how I should make the most out of my time with them because, as they would say, “Kids grow up quickly.” I [...]
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