Jun 6, 20129 minSmart Kids Being DumbIf I had it to do all over again, I would never have put them in school. I would have gone straight to online schools once I could no...
Nov 20, 20113 minThe best of the week . . .According to infalible me! Ha! I’ve done more writing than reading this week, so this is a bit light, but here goes: How children’s ...
Nov 19, 20114 minHomework in kindergartenAn example of my 1st grader's homework So, I have my kids in the local public schools which has real drawbacks and benefits. One of the...
Nov 15, 20113 minLet’s talk about sex, baby!In the early ‘90s Salt-n-Peppa famously sang “Let’s talk about sex, baby” and boy, oh boy do we take their exhortations to heart. Sex is...
Sep 7, 20112 minToday I’m thinking about school – UpdateAfter thinking about it for a while and talking with the school principal to get his take on what the core of the issue might be, I...
Sep 2, 20112 minToday I am thinking about schoolHere’s the dilemma I am wrestling with: these are all normal parts of middle school, but are they acceptable? Is my son who is having a...
Nov 29, 20105 minAll Praise the Kids?Interesting story in the NY Magazine this weekend about how praising kids harms and sometimes helps them. Much of the research about...
Jul 29, 20086 minHow being gifted means being differentFirst, the differences. I always figured that high intelligence was just about how a person learns new information and skills. What I...
May 8, 20082 minThe Platypus and Evolutionfascinating article in the Washington Post about the genetic code of the platypus. Scientists just finished mapping the odd animal’s DNA...
Apr 28, 20081 min10 year old boys are right: word problems are evil!New research seems to back up my decision to drop word problems. Researchers have conducted experiments which showed that students who...
Apr 28, 20081 minWhat’s dumber than a gorilla with a bunch of bananas?suspended 11 students for taking part in a senior prank where a kid dressed like a gorilla chased 10 classmates dressed like bananas...
Apr 10, 20082 minIs college worth it?here and here) as well as my extreme opposition to student loans and our current system of funding higher education (here, here and here)....
Apr 5, 20082 minThis is fantastic!At any rate, a new program in Boston is working to teach low income parents to talk with their children from a very early age and to...
Apr 5, 20082 minThere are things I don’t understandI know that my perspective is different because I do homeschool and it’s for reasons far less pressing than protecting my kids from...
Mar 30, 20085 minRaising Christian EvolutionistsI wrote a post on why parents who teach their children creation science or intelligent design in a way which elevates those teachings to...