We survived our Texas trip. Here’s a rundown of 10 random things about our trip… 1. Humidity – It wasn’t that bad. I was a total baby about it and we didn’t even have the opportunity to pretend we were in the rainforests of South America. The only obvious links were more bugs and GREEN. Although […]
Doing School vs. Power of Play
The whole concept of ‘doing school’ is a hard one to escape from, especially in this age of high competitiveness and desire to give our children an edge or just satisfy family members who are skeptical of anything other than traditional education. Even if those aren’t temptations for you, we oftentimes wonder just how to […]
Embracing Humidity
We are heading to a family reunion in Texas. It will be exciting to see family – some of whom I’ve never met! The last one they had was 11 years ago. I was in Spain at the time and not engaged quite yet. We are all stoked! As weird as it is, I’ve also […]
Antarctic Adventures
You know you’re immersed in something when you start to dream about it! Last night, my baby (aka the two year old) had a fever and didn’t sleep well. When I finally fell back asleep at about 4am, I started having weird dreams. Does this ever happen to anyone else when your sleep is hijacked? […]
The Creativity Crisis
An interesting article came out last week in Newsweek magazine titled, The Creativity Crisis. It talks about how research is showing a very significant decrease in creativity in Americans – most notably those in K-6th grade. As I gear up for our workshop on cultivating curiosity this weekend, I’m struck by the interplay between curiosity and […]
Heading North
To round out our study of North America, we headed north. We had fun looking at pictures of beautiful Canada, talking about maple trees, mounties and of course Vancouver (Olympics are still fresh in their memory). But what the boys really loved doing was exploring the lives of eskimo’s and what it’s like in the […]