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Asian, Claire, Parenting

Racial Affinity in Young Children

Oct 17. 2014

A few weeks into pre-k, Claire began to tell me about a new friend. "Umma, JJ and I played hide-and-go-seek today!" "Umma, JJ is so silly and funny." "Look, umma! JJ made me this drawing!" I soon discovered that JJ was a kindergartener (so about a year older than Claire) whose Korean name initials are JJ. Whenever I arrived early for pickup to see Claire's class returning from their afternoon walk, I'd see Claire and JJ walking together, often holding the same ring on the walking rope while giggling and chatting with each other. I was glad to see that Claire had made a close friend. I knew she was friendly with the kids in her class, but this was the first time that she would voluntarily talk...

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Cute, Education, Entertainment, Geek, Movies, Parenting, Star Wars

J.J. Abrams Personally Solves Kid’s Algebra Problem

Oct 11. 2014

Last week, a (rightfully) proud father's Facebook post went viral as he shared his 8th grade son's homework. The assignment? To create an algebraic expression into a word problem. And his son Cody's answer (with no help from his parents)? In case you're having trouble reading the above, it says: J.J. Abrams is making Star Wars Episode 7. He rented three speeder bikes which was 700 imperial credits to start. He must pay 100 imperial credits to keep his speeder bikes daily. If he does not pay daily, Prince Xizor and other Black Sun members will kidnap J.J. Abrams, bring him to Mustafar, and sacrifice him. J.J. Abrams is also paying 5 bounty hunters to keep separatist spies out. That costs 200 imperial credits...

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Finance, Funny, Geek, Information, Parenting

How Much Damage Did Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes Fame) Cause? [$$$]

Oct 08. 2014

The U.S. Department of Agriculture states that raising a child from birth to age 17 costs, for those in the middle-income groups, anywhere from $226,800 to $264,600. If you think that figure is large, consider the fact that those numbers do not take into account any damage (the physical kind, not emotional) the child can cause...

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Claire, Entertainment, Motherhood, Parenting, Personal

Homework: A Family Effort?

Oct 07. 2014

Claire should technically still be in preschool. However, because she missed her school's cutoff age by only a couple of months — and because she's a bit advanced for her age — her teachers recommended she start pre-kindergarten early. (As such, she will always be one of the youngest kids in her grade.) And one of the things that distinguishes preschool from pre-k is the inclusion of homework. I was shocked when they handed us her first assignment at pickup. Really? Homework for 4-5 year olds? (At the time, Claire was only 3.) I don't remember getting homework until the 2nd grade! They also included a sheet of instructions in her homework folder which included things like: Establish a scheduled time and quiet place for homework to...

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Aerin, Parenting, Personal

Chalazion

Sep 22. 2014

A couple of months ago, we noticed a small lump under Aerin's left lower eyelid. (You can kinda see it in the first picture from this post about summer camp.) It wasn't painful and it didn't seem to bother her, so we took the "wait and see" approach. But over the weeks, the lump grew larger and redder. We took Aerin to the pediatrician who suspected the lump to be a sty and — because it hadn't gone away on its own — prescribed an antibacterial ointment. In addition to the ointment, we were to give her warm compresses, and hopefully the sty would go away on its own. When Aerin's eye didn't get any better after 10 days, we visited the pediatrician's...

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