Weekend Whatnot
A reporter from Newsweek Magazine interviewed me last week about Legos. She asked me how I played with Legos way back when versus how my kids play with them now. We'll see if my hamster story makes it into print.
Amazon has launched an interesting new site called Askville. The premise is simple. Just ask a question, any question, and see if someone out there has an answer for you.
BookMooch is another great website that I've used a lot lately. Launched last summer, it's basically a book-trading site. I've had great luck getting the books I want. And it's much easier than pawing through shelves of paperbacks down at the thrift store.
My son's first year of homeschooling is winding down with less than two months to go. He'll actually be done with spelling and history next week since he cruised through his two favorite subjects. I need to come up with some of my own lessons for those subjects to round out the days before summer vacation.
Old toys never die, they just become computerized. Here's the classic Lite-Brite.
Some toys, however, simply should not exist at all.
Kid Pan Alley founder Paul Reisler will be interviewed on Morning Edition this Monday, March 26. Reisler will discuss his work with Kid Pan Alley, a national children's songwriting project that he developed in order to inspire children to create music. I reviewed their latest CD here.
Both of my kids have sinus drainage down the back of their throat. Which means all-night coughing, no sleep for anyone, and a Weekend of the Living Dead to look forward to.
Amazon has launched an interesting new site called Askville. The premise is simple. Just ask a question, any question, and see if someone out there has an answer for you.
BookMooch is another great website that I've used a lot lately. Launched last summer, it's basically a book-trading site. I've had great luck getting the books I want. And it's much easier than pawing through shelves of paperbacks down at the thrift store.
My son's first year of homeschooling is winding down with less than two months to go. He'll actually be done with spelling and history next week since he cruised through his two favorite subjects. I need to come up with some of my own lessons for those subjects to round out the days before summer vacation.
Old toys never die, they just become computerized. Here's the classic Lite-Brite.
Some toys, however, simply should not exist at all.
Kid Pan Alley founder Paul Reisler will be interviewed on Morning Edition this Monday, March 26. Reisler will discuss his work with Kid Pan Alley, a national children's songwriting project that he developed in order to inspire children to create music. I reviewed their latest CD here.
Both of my kids have sinus drainage down the back of their throat. Which means all-night coughing, no sleep for anyone, and a Weekend of the Living Dead to look forward to.
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5 Comments:
Those toys were truly horrifying... though I am thinking of maybe getting the Tarzan doll for myself.
Me and me lad just looked at those toys, he is 13 and we did laff......
And he has been flogging his lego on ebay, we have boxes and boxes of the stuff..... with 4 lads that were really into the stuff it made for quite a collection..... but time for some of it to go...... he has been flogging it just as lose mixed 2kg box fulls and has been banking the money he gets from it :).....
and we think its real funny how americans say 'legos' with an s on the end and we just say 'lego' :)
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So sorry about the kids..wish them well soon. I'm thinking of 'homeschooling' my son who hates his pre-kindergarten soon (it's not a real homeschooling though since I can only do it full time for 2 months when I'm on maternity leave.. the rest will be night sessions only). I found it really hard; kept thinking how did Phil do it all the while. We don't have homeschooling support here..it's not even recognized by the authorities. My kid didn't seem to take me seriously when I teach him at nights so far. I really admire what you did to your son!
Same here Liza, I think Phil is doing a great job!
Those toys ... yik!!!!
The toys totally cracked me up.
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