Education and parenting. Helping your child with reading, math, science and getting along with others.
My husband and I have been empty-nested for a few years now. At first, it was a little sad not to have the kids at home. Over time, though, we have enjoyed the freedom of just doing whatever we want. We’ve recently discovered traveling without kids, something we never did when the kids were at…
My oldest, Zoe Lee, who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and studied Industrial Design, won a National Science Foundation grant for graduate school. She will be starting her Master’s Program at MIT this fall. This fellowship will also fund her PhD. We are so excited for her to begin this new…
Thank you to House of Heroes for sponsoring this post. If you are anything like me, you have tried every trick in the book to make screen time feel less like the default setting of your evenings. Activity kits that lose their novelty by Thursday. Board games that work brilliantly for two sessions and then…
Are you ready to think about Back to School? I have resources and ideas to stop summer slide. As I look back on the summer learning that I did with my three children, a few things stand out that, now in hindsight, have greatly impacted my kids’ learning experiences. The first is doing math supplementation…
My author copies for Postcards From Malcolm X arrived! Here’s my unboxing video: Postcards from Malcolm X: How Yuri Kochiyama Became a Human Rights Activist by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Keith Henry Brown A moving portrait of Yuri Kochiyama―an ordinary woman who became an extraordinary activist―and her bond with Malcolm X When Japanese American activist…
It was fortuitous to meet Wade Ishikawa and his friend Will at the Hanapepe Salt Pond. I was just hoping to get some photos, not realizing that the salt ponds are only operational during the summer. Not only did Wade go over the harvesting process, clarifying some fine points that my research for Food for…
When we took a family trip to the West Coast to visit art colleges for my oldest child, we stayed near Fisherman’s Wharf. There, at the Boudin Bakery, I saw an exhibit about inventions that come out of San Francisco. I noticed that the fortune cookie was one of them. I didn’t think about this…