Summer project (1 of 3)
The Minnesota State Fair is a fabulous event (Twelve days of fun ending Labor Day!). Rachel and I love the Fair, and we have passed this love along to our children. Griffin must have been thinking about the wonders of the State Fair as summer slowly (oh, so...
Notes on process
Michael asked in the comments recently: One question: how are you preserving all these amazing conversations? The answer is surprisingly low-tech. See, I have this notebook. And it's pretty much always with me and I use it to keep track of pretty much everything in...
A short waffles conversation
Those Eggo mini-waffles are paying off. We had this conversation the other day... Me: There you are, Tabitha. Two sets of waffles. Tabitha (six years old): That's 7. No...8!Me: [washing dishes with my back turned to her] Right. Two sets of four is eight.T:...
Learning to count
I am fascinated by watching children learn to count. There are many surprising twists and turns kids take along the way. Even more surprising, perhaps, is that what seem like crazy mistakes to us adults are completely sensible attempts at getting it right for kids....