What’s in a Name? Baby Names¿Qué hay en un nombre? Nombres de bebés
There were over 4 million births in the US in 2007 according to USA Today, and there are roughly 1000 reasonably popular baby names. That means, according to basic division, that parents looking for unique baby names will need to dive deep into obscurity to find one. There are some guidelines that all new parents [...]
Read more →Books I Read to the Boys by Request
Through the years we have gone through phases with our book reading. I sometimes find myself reading a particular book every day for a month. Then, the boys get sick of it and never request it again. But there are other books which seem to have a longer life cycle and which seem immune to [...]
Read more →Father’s Day
I don’t think I care much for Fathers’ Day. I’ve been ambivalent about Father’s Day for a while, but this year I think I can safely say that I don’t like it. I feel the same way about Mother’s Day. What is it about these holidays that I don’t like? Is it the commercialism? [...]
Read more →Censorship: Not Good for KidsCensura: No es buena para los niños
I was wandering through the book store a few weeks ago with my kids. We were looking for books that I could read out loud to them. There was a teenager in the isle with us, and somehow I managed to get into a conversation with him. Through the course of talking about books [...]
Read more →Friday’s Story #2Historia de los Viernes #2
My boys and I thought of this story this morning. Bill’s Haunted Bike By Keith, Neil and Alan Wilcox Bill had been wanting a bicycle for a long time. His family didn’t have much money though and so couldn’t afford one for him. Bill’s father told him to wait [...]
Read more →How I HomeschoolCómo es que yo educo en el hogar
I was asked recently to describe what I do to home school my kids. It has taken me a year or so to really refine the things I am teaching and my methods for doing it. But, I have a system now that is working pretty well for everyone. I am concentrating on the [...]
Read more →Free-Range Kids
I talked about this a bit in the past, about kids having the freedom to make their own mistakes. This week I found a book called “Free-Range Kids”. The following article is a brief synopsis of the book and is what has really sparked my interest in this subject. There is an emerging [...]
Read more →Learning to SwimAprender a nadar
For the past three years I have been scratching my head wondering why so many parents have trouble getting their kids to go into the water. My oldest boy was swimming the crawl when he was three and had finished the Red Cross level 4 swim classes when he was 4. I thought “wow! I’m [...]
Read more →Potty Training the Kids
I am not an expert potty trainer for all kids because I don’t think there is such a thing. I’m pretty sure it’s not anything like the dog whisperer. What I do know is that I got lucky and both my kids accomplished it with minimal travail. I dealt with the occasional accident in public and [...]
Read more →7 Reasons I Home School7 Razones por las que educo en el hogar
Home schooling is something we’ve decided to do with our kids because it fits perfectly into our lifestyles. There are parents who have the freedom to be able to make that decision just as there are parents who, for whatever reason, cannot. Public schools serve a purpose and are perfectly capable of producing quality [...]
Read more →Top 10 Video Games for Kids — and Some ExtrasLos 10 mejores videojuegos para niños – y unos cuantos extras
I loved video games when I was a kid so it’s no surprise that my kids also love them. The problem with newer generation gaming though is selecting the right game. When I (we) were 6 years old the only games we had were Pac-Man, Defender, Pong, and other equally standard games; there are [...]
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