“Will you teach me something that is college-level?” my ambitious and competetive soon-to-be third grader requested.
I was reading the Sunday paper so I tried to do a little dodging. “You have to learn all the elementary stuff before you learn the college stuff. That’s why we go to elementary school first.” Then [...]
I am training my children to become bicycle-commuters.
I envy Europeans in cities where walking is a life-style. I would love for my town to adopt biking as a major mode of transportation, the way Amsterdam has done.
Let me name a few benefits off the top of my head. . . better health, cleaner air, [...]
What kind of PR should I expect from a Christian Science e-zine?
AgnosticMom debuts in the Christian Science Monitor! Uhh, probably not.
The great Duncan Crary from the Humanist Network News sends me PR leads pretty regularly. A few of them are exciting and as they go through (rather, if they go through) [...]
We’ve talked before about how the U.S. needs to have a major overhaul in science education. The overall lack of understanding of how science works is detrimental to future progress.
Richard Dawkins had an interesting idea for combatting this. In a lecture called, Science, Delusion And The Appetite For Wonder, he cited a clarinet [...]
I made a big mistake.
I gave in to the requests of my three-year-old (because giving in is so much easier than saying “no”) and now I am an accomplice in the murder of Blake and Trinity’s friend-bug.
It was a florescent green happy flying bug. Even its wings were outlined in beautiful neon-green. [...]
I have a request for a discussion topic. From Hifi:
I would be interested in hearing here from anyone else as to how they approach the subject of death with their children. How do you do it? If you don’t have children, what is your own view?
I would be interested in hearing here [...]
In my household we conduct what we call “5-Minute Room Rescues.” We got this concept from FlyLady.net, a web-site for over-achieving, have-too-many-interests, obsessive, perfectionistic, therefore-life-is-chaos people like me.
The concept of the 5-Minute Room Rescue works great for young children. Every morning before school, and at other times when I feel the need, my [...]
One of the two major local papers in Phoenix is the East Valley Tribune. Today the Tribune ran a story about my family.
Are you wondering why?
It’s not because this local Mesa blogger is obtaining new writing opportunities.
It’s not because of any activist involvement on my part.
It’s not about my agnostic/secular viewpoints at [...]
It started out superb. In fact, for as long as Israel was with us, Mother’s Day was perfect. The kids gave me their homemade gifts (and a few recycled toys). I got to read Blake’s numerous descriptions of me in a school project and how I “love life and the religions” and [...]
They are only eight, six, and three years old. There remains much to be seen. But it helps to take a periodic look at how moral or immoral, how healthy or unhealthy, how successful or unsuccessful my children are to date, now 4 years without religion in the home.
Aiden has added two undesirable [...]
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