My six-year-old just brought me a drawing she did of a bird in black and white. I asked her, "Are you going to color it?" She said, "No, I'm going to leave it like an old nineties tv show." I guess I'm that old now that she thinks I grew up without color tv.
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Tim Walz: Did he [Trump] lose the 2020 election?
JD Vance: Tim, I'm focused on the future.
Tim Walz: That is a damning non-answer.
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This is what things looks like at 1.5 degrees of warming. Think about what it looks like at twice that, which is where we’re headed unless we do a *lot* more very quickly.
The benchmark for mastery in a field is 10,000 hours of practice.
Yet kids spend 15,000+ hours in public school, and learn almost nothing.
50% of graduating high schoolers get the same math scores as high-performing 3rd graders.
I'm normally a very gentle person, but you better believe that if your kid brings a bucket of concrete chunks to a busy playground and starts whipping them at people, I'm going to scold the absolute shit out of him.
WTF are parents even doing nowadays
I jailbroke my Kindle yesterday to install Koreader, and I LOVE it.
And before you come at me for not reading "real books," I have a neurological condition that causes hand weakness, and a Kindle is much easier for me to manage than a 1000 page book.
Whether you homeschool year-round or not, you should still be doing nature journals in the summer. Learning about the living things around them is invaluable for kids.