We try, well, not hard, to be pretty gender-neutral when it comes to the kids. We don’t ignore the fact that the kids are biologically different, but we at least keep the culturally-gendered pseudo-differences in suspicious view, and knowing is half the battle. (Go Joe!) I introduced both Erin and Adrian to hockey early on,…
Category: Parenting
Babyproofing for your Crawling Child
Recently, Parents magazine ran a piece by Linda DiProperzio called “Babyproofing for your Crawling Child.” It’s most likely about child safety, because babies like to drop things that are sharp or heavy on things that are not. But for all I know it’s a total mislead of a title and the piece is really about…
Teaching
Teaching means being happy with, looking forward to, and deliberately designing situations intended to end in failure. I make sure my kids fail often. There is no learning in success. I am happy when Erin climbs a structure on the playground, but I recognize that her success there hasn’t really taught her anything. It’s when…