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Archives for July 2015
What’s the Big Idea?
It’s been a long time since the Shark Blanket Incident…
It all started so innocently. My five-year-old son was fascinated with sharks. He and I were browsing casually through the latest stack of library books about the noble beasties, when an illustration caught my eye. Oooooh, outlines of eighteen different shark species all drawn to 1/8″ scale! (My husband now flinches if I say “Ooooh” when looking at a book.) [Read more…]
Stumbling Into Humility
Struggling with pride?
Here’s an exercise in humility you can repeat as often as needed: learn something new in front of your children. What better way to teach them perseverance, a teachable spirit, poise in the face of frustration, and ‘everyone’s a dummy at something’? [Read more…]
The Science of Motherhood
Modern technologies seem like magic to a primitive man. Children are often similarly awed by the scientific genius of their mothers. Years of experimentation, testing hypotheses, and verifying conclusions develop in mom what appears to be an ability to see through walls, or read minds. We take our work as seriously as any research physicist, and consider it a sacred responsibility to add to the body of our colleague’s knowledge. This is the stuff of Professional Mom meetings all over the world. Here a few excerpts from my lab notes: [Read more…]
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