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Raising Future Adults

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2026 35

  1. Halloween
  2. Dads and Daughters
  3. "No" is Not Enough Information
  4. Oppositional Defiant Disorder
  5. Plasticity, Health and So-called IQ
  6. All My Friends are Heathens
  7. Spiders
  8. Christopher Knight
  9. Clothes and Sensory Issues
  10. Watching Rain Man with Your Child
  11. Rain Man
  12. Toddler Speech
  13. Gifted Youth in Adult Settings
  14. Bad Habits
  15. Meltdowns
  16. A Sound Mind in a Sound Body
  17. Adhd
  18. Je Ne Sais Quoi
  19. Decision Making Practice
  20. Mommy Laughed
  21. Intelligence, Muddy Waters and Evil Social Dynamics
  22. Face Blindness Revisited
  23. The Nature-Nurture Argument
  24. Cool Science
  25. Trauma and Genius
  26. Movies and Parental Supervision
  27. Social Skills are Mostly LEARNED
  28. Weekly Record Keeping for Homeschooling
  29. Reading Tools for Dead Tree Books
  30. The Chaos AKA English is Tough Stuff
  31. Per Pupil Expenditures is a Broken Metric
  32. Matching Coat and Shoes FTW
  33. Technology and Child Development
  34. Hothousing
  35. Teaching Writing to a Kid that Hated Writing

2025 26

  1. If you sew...
  2. Qualifications. I guess.
  3. Stand and Deliver
  4. Learning the Times Tables
  5. Factoring, Prime Factoring and Finding the Least Common Multiple
  6. Concrete Math
  7. Michele's Made-up Math Grammar
  8. Credentials versus Education
  9. Old School Cool
  10. Math Juggling
  11. Education is the lighting of a fire, not the filling of a pail.
  12. Testing, Assessment and Education
  13. Education Quotes
  14. Free Latin
  15. The Art of Not Passing Baggage onto the Kids
  16. What are you actually teaching the kids?
  17. Social stuff and difficult kids
  18. For love of math
  19. Kids with very challenging traits
  20. Words
  21. Clear Communication
  22. IQ Tests
  23. Facepalming and Eye Rolling
  24. Dinosaurs and Prehistory
  25. Understanding Physical Scale
  26. Letting him shine

2024 5

  1. Santa, The Stork and Other Delusions
  2. The Truth
  3. Face Blindness AKA Prosopagnosia
  4. Curls without Tears
  5. One Wonders What Might Constitute "Altruistic Reasons" to Have a Child

2023 7

  1. When Earth-Bound Human Kids Get Rich and Famous
  2. Best Birthday Present Ever
  3. Games
  4. Adolescence
  5. Honestly
  6. Why
  7. Jump, Jive an' Wail

2022 16

  1. Massage
  2. Bathroom Policy
  3. Sleep and Respiratory Issues in Infants
  4. Taking care of "mom"
  5. Some Baby Basics
  6. Tigger, The Great Hot Dog Hunter
  7. The Invisible Majority
  8. Third Culture Kids
  9. Playing Fair
  10. Social and Emotional Issues in Gifted Youth
  11. Bored Gifted Kid Syndrome (TM)
  12. Motherly Love
  13. Feeding the Need
  14. Genes
  15. Home Training
  16. The Pink Panther Bathroom

2021 9

  1. Wired for Science
  2. The Ladder
  3. Elevation
  4. Tie a knot in it
  5. Memory Lane
  6. On: Labels
  7. Crazy Conclusions in Early Childhood
  8. I think the kids are mostly alright. It's the world that changed.
  9. Grocery Shopping in Quarters in Germany

2019 1

  1. The Hand Licking Incident

2017 1

  1. The Dripping Sarcasm Voice