Education and parenting. Helping your child with reading, math, science and getting along with others.
Please welcome my guest blogger Shailee Butalia of Ghotu Motu Ki Toli. Ghotu Motu is a live-action series focused on Indian nursery rhymes. What a fun way to teach kids about Indian culture! ——————- I was fortunate to have a new child within the last year. Of course, my concerns as soon I found out…
PickyKidPix just turned 13 years old and she’s quite the long-term planner. Because she intends to get a high score on the SAT test four years from now, she’s taken immediate steps to improve her vocabulary. The first thing she did was sign up for Latin for 7th grade based on the assumption that Latin,…
It’s amazing how a single piece of art can have a ripple effect, inspiring others all around the world and for many generations. Hokusai’s iconic blockprint The Great Wave is one of the best-recognized works of Japanese art in the world. Here are some of the spin-offs from Hokusai’s The Great Wave … Counchabunga by…
My daughter, Grasshopper and Sensei, wants to go to art school after she graduates from high school so I’ve been hard at work trying to figure out how that works. Step 1: Meet with a college counselor specializing in art colleges. She works with art college counselor, Jeanette Nyberg of Tiny Rotten Peanuts who attended Rhode Island School…
A few readers had asked me to blog on my entrepreneurial experience so I posted on the history of Aquent and our culture of innovation. We were gearing up for a big office move; we had been at our old office for seventeen years and we needed more space. The old office had four floors…
This is a list for my daughter, Grasshopper and Sensei, who wants to go to Art School but does NOT want to be a fine artist. I suspect she will end up doing commercial art, mostly because she dislikes working alone but, on the flip side, is amazing working collaboratively. A Fairly Comprehensive List…
I have been working hard planning my son’s summer and it’s a video game-themed summer but I plan to sneak in math, computer science, art, and reading. He’s 10 years old and will be a rising 5th grader. Why video game learning? My son is screen-obsessed. It’s not unusual to find him in front of…