7 Parenting New Year’s Resolutions (That I’ll Forget By February)
[Note — Just so you all don’t think I had a stroke or wrote this with my left foot (wasn’t that a movie with Daniel Day-Lewis? It was called something like ‘Just so y’all don’t think I had a stroke.’ ) I wrote this blog using an iPad app called Penultimate. It allows users to take notes like a note pad, using their finger as a writing instrument. Because that’s why the Permanent Roommate bought me an iPad — to use it like an expensive fucking legal pad.]
Just three months! Look how big our little Rosa is getting.
I love this song my wife made up for our little Rosa.
Family life gives me a reason to do fun and creative things.
We had a lot of fun making this video Christmas Card.
Merry Christmas!
When Smart Kids Grow Up: Were you one of those students who made schoolwork look easy, earning a galaxy of gold stars and an alphabet of A’s between your first morning of kindergarten and your graduation day? Did everyone gush over how smart you were?
If so, you might know the curse of the gifted child. An overload of affirmations can hamper the future success of bright kids, reports Heidi Grant Halvorson for Harvard Business Review. Students who receive praise for intellect rather than effort, she reports, develop a belief that their abilities are innate and unchangeable. As adults, they lose confidence in trying to develop new, difficult skills. They get stuck. Halvorson writes:
People with above-average aptitudes—the ones we recognize as being especially clever, creative, insightful, or otherwise accomplished—often judge their abilities not only more harshly, but fundamentally differently, than others do (particularly in Western cultures). Gifted children grow up to be more vulnerable, and less confident, even when they should be the most confident people in the room.
The Kid Has Arrived: Nothing quite like getting woken up on a Sunday morning by your... →
Nothing quite like getting woken up on a Sunday morning by your husband poking his bed in the bedroom and saying, “Honey, we have a real poop catastrophe in here. I’m gonna need your help. The boy and I are heading into the shower.”
I laid there for another minute, shaking myself out of my dream…
I feel this one…
“Grown ups don’t make children. Having children makes grown ups out of us”. ~ Roughly quoted from John Medina’s Brain Rules for Babies
Grown-ups don’t make children. Children make grown-ups.
This book is called “Oje, ich wachse!” in German. My wife is reading it in German. It’s called “The Wonder Weeks” I’m reading it in English. Let’s hope we can stay on the same page.
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