Reading Time: < 1 minute Did not want to go in the morning (most days), did not want to leave in the afternoon (sometimes). Positives: she started to call some teachers by name, and some friends by name. She talked quite a bit in English, continuing make progress on language. Kindermusik, sit on teachers’ lap. A nice overlap for her
Reading Time: < 1 minute From a Massachusetts mother to her 13 old son. NPR Talk of the Nation has a discussion on this today. Very much applicable to myself (though not a teenager). So in summary, no TV, limited iPhone, happy parenting 🙂
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hair cut Mommy just cut Yoyo’s hair. Mommy: wo yao kan kan wo de cheng guo. In english: I would like to see my fruits (results). Yoyo: cheng guo ke yi chi ma? (Can I eat the results 🙂 Reading Also, these days she just likes to be teacher, “reading” books to us. Sometimes she
Reading Time: < 1 minute Same applies to Ruixian (my wife). Note for Ruixian I need to respect her authority as well (sometimes she lost patience when discipline our daughter). Saw this from Saturday’s Kindermusik class, Serenity was a bit hyper that day (due to chocolate lollipop?). When the teacher asked the kids to put the sand blocks back, Serenity did
Reading Time: 2 minutes My daughter has been to the Montessori Toddler program (Hope Academy in Creve Coeur) for over a year, and I think I am becoming a Montessori dad. This is a bit abstract, but I like to list a few examples about the school and teachers, and show why they are great. This is the first
Reading Time: 2 minutes I changed my job this Jan. I started working for a coal company as mobile app developer. Coal and mobile app (iPhone, iPad) do usually go together in the same sentence, I think. As coal is described as “dirty” in the media, especially by the environmentalists, the “green” people both in and outside government (think
Reading Time: < 1 minute I was involved into a car accident in the past weekend. We are all fine, so as the other party. The main thing is both cars got some damage. It’s funny when I drove the broken car on the road, I got quite a few “look back” from other drivers. And yesterday, at McDonald parking
Reading Time: 2 minutes Have not done this for a while. I have changed job again, and in the new year started a developer position very close to home, doing mobile (iOS, iPhone, iPad) development. I love what I am doing now, because I got opportunity to create an app from back end (database, web service) to front end
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last week (Friday), when at friends’ house, and the hostess offered snack, she asked “这是什么呀？(what is this)”? Today, after we put her to crib, when my wife and I both read iPhone on bed (her crib is next to our bed), she said “在看什么呀？(what are you reading)?”…Later, she also said “what are you doing?”
Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update 10-01-2011) We went to Youyou’s school this morning for “Parents work day”, basically they have some small playground improvement projects (painting, making a new climber), and in the lunch time, we have a BBQ and potluck. The ethnic diversity of the students/parents background surprised me a bit, reminded of Rolla (a lot of Indian
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