We first covered Remind back in 2011, when it launched as a way for K-12 teachers to broadcast communications to a classroom full of parents. But over the past 5 years the company has evolved into an all-encompassing communication tool for teachers, parents and students in over 75% of U.S school districts. And all of this has…
A new mobile app called Winnie is launching today to make parents’ lives a little easier, by offering information about nearby kid-friendly places, as well as detailing what sort of facilities for families a location may have – like stroller access, quiet areas to nurse, changing tables, restrooms, and more. The idea is to make…
via Winnie helps parents find family-friendly places, share their experiences — TechCrunch
Samsung worries about your child. Are they sleeping well? Do they miss you when you’re away on business? Can they put on a VR headset without their parents’ help? That last one is pretty important. Because Samsung wants your kids to experience the joy of VR just before bed instead of a regular bedtime story…
via Samsung’s VR bedtime stories are cute, but really? — TechCrunch
I tell my kids they can think anything they want, but there are some things they’d better not say. (image via wikimedia)
I told my daughters this morning that they’d need to take a sack lunch to school tomorrow, and they laughed at me. I wasn’t expecting them to laugh.
It took me a moment to realize why they thought sack lunch was funny. When I was their age (around 35 years ago), sack lunch wasn’t funny. I carried a sack lunch to school every day, and nobody laughed. I think I even called it a sack lunch. Everybody called it that. But somewhere along the way, kids picked up on the word sack, and a new source of humor was created.
Now I can’t say sack in front of my daughters; I have to say “brown paper bag.” If I had two sons, maybe it wouldn’t matter much. But…
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Trying to look like an ancient greek. Need a beard?
There have been a few thoughts going on in my head. When you listen to these recordings of our children, you will hear the eldest talk a lot about presents. It’s a little uncomfortable hearing a small child being so aware of ‘stuff’. That’s got me thinking more about needs versus wants. There’s that feeling that if we just focused on what we needed rather than what we wanted, the world would be a happier place for all of us, including our children. I’m not sure sure about that.
I’ve also been thinking how many of us in the west have so much, even the poorest people in the UK arguably have more ‘stuff’ than those in less wealthy nations. And so this wealth is often used to utterly undermine arguments for wanting more for our children –…
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“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass
Yeah, so, this Buzzfeed video titled “Questions You Wish You Could Ask Your Friends With Kids” has been making the rounds on Facebook.
I know, right? It’s pretty stupid video. Sure, it’s a funny idea. Too bad the video isn’t funny. I don’t know what I was expecting when I watched it. I mean, it’s a Buzzfeed video. It’s not going to be thoughtful questions about parenting. It’s going to be “LOL you had kids. Also, poop.” Still, I thought it would fun to answer these burning questions for Buzzfeed.
Is the fun part of your life just over now?
I laugh so much every day. I think my life is pretty fun.
So you just don’t ever sleep?
I sleep, but I don’t get as much as I used to. I miss sleeping in. Sleeping in is cool.
You know you can’t return one of these, right?
Actually, in…
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