Category: Kids
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Noun Roulette: The High Stakes Game of Speaking a Foreign Language when it Counts
“Hallo! Hair Live! Kann ich Ihnen helfen?” That sentence strikes fear into my heart. It’s rattled off at breakneck speed and the words fly like bullets. And all she’s saying is “Hello, Hair Live. Can I help you?” I reply with an elegant and fluent, “Uh…..” But I recover and haltingly say, “Ich möchte einen…
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Potato – Eggplant – it’s practically the same thing
A little conversation after we measured the boys’ heights today. Me: Huh. H is about a half an inch taller than E when he was that age. E: (panicked) Does that mean he’s taller than me?!? Mark: Naw. That means your just about the same height. E: It does? Mark: Yeah. You know. Like me…
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Becoming a Math Parent When You Aren’t a Math Person
As a parent I have found one of the most difficult things to help my child with is math. I have never been “gifted” in math so when E’s school held a workshop to go through the new ways math is taught I jumped at the chance to hear their methods. However, as I went…
Mindy Carlson 