Last night my husband (Tim) and daughter (VIP) went to her Spring program which was the grand finale to her last day in pre-school. They brought home a huge keepsake packet to let me peruse through which included everything from a “report card” to art projects. When I had finally reached the bottom of the never-ending stack […]
Continue ReadingI must give my mom full credit for this post — growing up in Florida was great, but living in the Panhandle during the summer months meant hot, muggy days with an always predictable afternoon shower to make things even …
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Talk about an amazing race. The Iditarod dog sled competition, which started Saturday, stretches more than a thousand miles from Anchorage to Nome, crossing some of the toughest terrain in the world under some of the harshest conditions on the planet. Mushers come from all over the world to compete, but, at its heart, the […]
Continue ReadingGeekMom Amy Kraft wrote awhile back about the crazy-making process of getting her child into the “right” school: My daughter just started Kindergarten at a New York City public school. The process of getting her there began when she was two years old and I started touring schools, fearing that if I didn’t like any […]
Continue ReadingScience is hot right now. Everywhere I travel parents are in a panic to get their kids interested in science. I guess one day, America woke up and realized our pipeline of home-grown engineers, scientists, and inventors was drying up. …
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GeekMom is thrilled to bring our readers another column by Kari Byron, the female face on the hit Discovery Channel show MythBusters and host of the Science Channel’s new Head Rush. Kari sends us regular updates on life as a MythBuster Mom. Science is hot right now. Everywhere I travel parents are in a panic […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been a geek all my life, but I hated school. Until college, I learned more watching PBS and maxing out my youth library card every week than I ever did in a classroom. I’m worried that my son will have the same experience – he’s only four years old, but he already loves science […]
Continue ReadingWhen I do school visits, one of the things kids seem most fascinated by is when I tell them there is more than one kind of smart. They are surprised to learn that there are, in fact, at least seven …
Continue Reading“Mom! I can spell your name!” Look at him: Only four years old and fearlessly riding the wave of the future. Given my druthers, he’d be running around outside with other neighborhood kids, getting dizzy spinning on a swing, or …
Continue ReadingLearning is everywhere. It is constant. This one bit of wisdom is one that I keep with myself, always. It helps the kids see that the world has a lot to teach them, and new knowledge can come at any …
Continue ReadingLittle Pim’s Word Bag When you’re learning a foreign language, it’s helpful to have frequent vocabulary reminders for words you have learned. To help with that, the creators of the Little Pim DVDs (which Jonathan and I reviewed recently) have …
Continue ReadingKodo Kids is a fairly new company that has a small line of products for kids. They encourage “open-ended, playful-learning.” Translated, that means the things they sell don’t look like typical toys: the Cozy Cubby is a giant cardboard tube …
Continue ReadingThe new academic year nearly always holds a lot of promise for parents. While the kids figure out what to wear the first day and have the excitement of meeting up with friends they haven’t seen for a while, that …
Continue ReadingWe, and I suspect many other geekparents, struggle with the right balance between providing our child with productive learning time and free play time. Sure, we let the geeklet play games on the Wii and watch (pre-screened) movies, but we …
Continue ReadingAmazon’s "Deal of the Day" on the Celestron SkyScout, a GPS-enabled "personal planetarium," caught our attention – we reviewed (and loved) the device on Z Recommends last year, naming it a ZRecs Top Pick, and it got a mention on GeekDad as well. The "list price" of over $600 claimed on the sale page is […]
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