Parenting & Children

How to Talk about Autism Respectfully – Field Guide

May 27, 2022 No Comments

This is a good guide, and very informative: If you take away nothing else from this essay I’d like you to take this: one of the core mottos of our community comes from South African disability rights activism: “Nothing About Us Without Us.” If you can keep those five words in your mind when writing […]

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Parenting & Children Places & Travel

Places to go: Christmas with kids

December 24, 2020 No Comments

Just saw a program about these two places on C4, the kids would love it. Steam trains and reindeer, up in he Scottish mountains. Looked awesome! Home https://www.strathspeyrailway.co.uk/

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Fun & Games Parenting & Children Space Technology

Projects: Build your own Radio Telescope

November 16, 2020 No Comments

This is a cool project to do when the kids are a bit older: The resolution of a telescope’s images depends both on the wavelength at which it operates and on the diameter of its dish. The longer the wavelength, the worse the resolution; and the larger the diameter, the better the resolution. Radio waves […]

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Films Life Parenting & Children Uncategorized

“For The Love Of Morticia”

April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 No Comments

This is great. Now let me tell you a somethin’ about being an Addams. They are as thick as thieves and they protect each other to the end. Their burdens aren’t unilateral. Morticia and Gomez share parenting responsibilities. They attend parent-teacher nights together. They sit through a lame school play. They rally in a time […]

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Life Parenting & Children

Making space – tips on de-cluttering from Marie Kondo

January 23, 2017 No Comments

I find it far, far easier to accumulate than de-clutter. This sounds like it might be an actually useful tip though, especially for clearing out older, mildly sentimental things: Ask yourself of each object: does it spark joy in my heart? This is the central message of Kondo’s creed: the litmus test to whether to […]

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Life Parenting & Children Photography

Booted

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 No Comments

“You have the same boots as me Aoibhe!” *looks at me sideways* “No I don’t, Dad, mine are pink!” ?

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Human Rights Parenting & Children Politics Society

Archdeacon: ‘No’ referendum posters are homophobic

May 7, 2015 No Comments

‘No’ posters in the same-sex marriage referendum campaign which say every child should have a mother and a father are homophobic, a senior Church of Ireland figure said at its General Synod in Armagh. […] Speaking as “a strong supporter of the Yes campaign” he admitted “it is not easy for me to be here […]

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Parenting & Children

Toilet training the wee ones

May 1, 2015 No Comments

Toilet training is one of the bits of parenting that you *really* hope goes well, if it doesn’t there’s going to be a mess. Suzy has a good piece that we twittered about today. It’s hilarious once they realize you go too, and start to return the praise you heap on them for encouragement. @airing_cupboard […]

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History Parenting & Children Society

Children and Play in the Holocaust

March 5, 2015July 10, 2015 No Comments

Jason Kottke has been doing some reading on children and play, specifically Peter Gray, and has posted a fascinating snippet: In a chapter on the role of play in social and emotional development, Gray discusses play that might be considered inappropriate, dangerous, or forbidden by adults: fighting, violent video games, climbing “too high”, etc. As […]

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How to Talk about Autism Respectfully – Field Guide

Places to go: Christmas with kids

Projects: Build your own Radio Telescope

“For The Love Of Morticia”

Making space – tips on de-cluttering from Marie Kondo

Booted

Archdeacon: ‘No’ referendum posters are homophobic

Toilet training the wee ones

Children and Play in the Holocaust

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