Not exact matches
The
idea of writing a post about what I'm feeding my
kids these days has been swirling around in my brain
for the past few months,
until I realized it'd be about a paragraph long.
In general, I waited
until the
kids came to me with
ideas — a friend had a clothing allowance,
for instance, and we copied that to the nickel.
For the kale and cooked greens, you probably just didn't like them much when you first ate them and you haven't gotten over it — humans react to bitter flavors because they can be poisonous, but greens either aren't poisonous or they're just the right amount of poison for health, so it may be a good idea to teach yourself to like them — either cover them with a flavor that you like and wean yourself off the added flavor (some people teach kids to eat broccoli by adding a lot of cheese sauce), or just eat it 10 times until you get used to
For the kale and cooked greens, you probably just didn't like them much when you first ate them and you haven't gotten over it — humans react to bitter flavors because they can be poisonous, but greens either aren't poisonous or they're just the right amount of poison
for health, so it may be a good idea to teach yourself to like them — either cover them with a flavor that you like and wean yourself off the added flavor (some people teach kids to eat broccoli by adding a lot of cheese sauce), or just eat it 10 times until you get used to
for health, so it may be a good
idea to teach yourself to like them — either cover them with a flavor that you like and wean yourself off the added flavor (some people teach
kids to eat broccoli by adding a lot of cheese sauce), or just eat it 10 times
until you get used to it.
The
idea that Peter Pan had to have come from somewhere is one that, I admit, I had never pondered, but Pan tells that story in a way that has much to offer
for both
kids and adults — though it doesn't really achieve maximum impact
until about two - thirds in.
We all know that you need to take risks as a mathematician, and it's not
until you start to ask
kids to rate themselves in terms of contributing
ideas or how comfortable do you feel asking a teacher a question or how comfortable do you feel telling your peer that they got it wrong, and you really start to break down what does it mean to take a risk in mathematics, that if you don't know your students and you don't apply teaching strategies to make an impact on those actual
kids that you're doing the research
for, then your impact is not going to be that great.
Mostly these consist of
ideas for how to pass the time
until you can return to indoor comforts and habits, such as going
for runs or bike rides, leaving the car at home, starting a garden, having picnics with
kids, reading books outside.
As
for other children, at this point, he is pretty much completely rejecting the
idea of spending time with other
kids, so we will continue to be patient with him about that
until he is comfortable being around them again.