March 18th, 2008
The countdown has begun: My son Charlie is in his last two months of being ten years old. A tall boy with big feet and able to reach an octave on the piano merely by opening his hand wide, and not really able to read.
When he was three, we started to teach Charlie the alphabet. […]
By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 12 comments
March 16th, 2008
Jim pulled out Charlie’s big new red bike and went back for his own—-and Charlie went back and appeared with his old yellow bike. He said “helmet” and went and found it atop a box and started to strap it on backwards: “Other way,” we told him, and Jim helped him straighten the helmet with […]
By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 4 comments
February 10th, 2008
Long Before Legos, Wood Was Nice and Did Suffice proclaims today’s New York Times in explaining why industrial designer Tucker Viemeister prefers, and still has, sets of Froebel wooden blocks. Froebel blocks are named for Friedrich Froebel, who created kindergarten and who also devised the idea of making boxed sets of blocks “meant to inform […]
By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 6 comments
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