Parenting, Fostering, Homeschooling, Programming
One time, Pickle went to the grocery store. He went to the pickle aisle and picked out five jars of pickles. Then he went to the juice aisle and got some pickle juice. After he paid for his groceries at the checkout counter, he went outside. But Baby Pickle and his baby friends came along [ ]
Kidpower is my blogging nemesis. I’ve been wanting to write about it for a very long time, but whenever I try, I get tangled up in perfectionism and end up with a hyperbolic landscape of half-finished blog posts. But every parent needs to know about Kidpower because it s so good! So today I’m just going [ ]
I came downstairs this morning to change Daniel s diaper and found a box of cereal, a gallon of milk, and a mostly-eaten bowl of cereal on the table. The kids were all in the playroom jumping on the bean bag couch. As I took Daniel over to the changing table, I called out an observation: [ ]
We like to invent new Tiny Polka Dot games around here. The latest one is Flip It, which is a good game to play with a preschooler who is learning about more and less. First you ll need to make an inequality sign. I cut mine out of corrugated cardboard and drew the symbol with [ ]
I just finished reading The Explosive Child by Ross W. Greene for the second time. I picked the book back up because Luke has been experiencing some out-of-control bad feelings in the past couple of weeks and I was hoping to find some relevant advice. When I first read the book, I didn t have any [ ]
Here s another recent Facebook comment I made, in response to a mom expressing concern that her toddler only wanted to play with the baby s toys, leaving the baby stuck with the toddler s toys. I wouldn t worry to much about them playing with each other s toys. What I would focus on teaching your son to wait [ ]
Someone on a Montessori Facebook group was asking for advice on handling a kid who is having pee accidents and resistant to prompting. I shared the following thoughts: When my second son said he didn t have to pee, I would say, It s still time for a toilet visit. Let s sit on the toilet and see [ ]
Click here to read all the Pickle stories in chronological order. One time Pickle wanted to make some spaghetti for dinner. He looked all over the kitchen, but he couldn t find any boxes of spaghetti. He decided to make a spaghetti machine so that he could make his own spaghetti. He collected all the ingredients [ ]
A few weeks ago, I was sitting at my computer trying to finish up my work for the week. Luke was next to me working on his math pages for the day, so Nathan brought over the Magna Doodle and declared that he wanted to do some math too. We came up with a simple [ ]
Not much math in this one, just a bunch of Baby Pickle antics. Click here to read all the Pickle stories in chronological order. One day Baby Pickle woke up and decided that he wanted to have a surprise party. So he wrote letters to all of his friends, like this: Dear Baby Square, Please [ ]