Children
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Girl Power
Posted by Martin R on October 19, 2010 Asked by her teacher to write five things she’s good at, and to illustrate them, 7-y-o Juniorette just produced this. The speech bubble reads “Yes I win”. Then “I’m good at writing running putting my hand up eating candy and not liking liquorice.” Next term she’s scheduled to chair the student council. I wonder if…
Absurd Tractor
Posted by Martin R on October 3, 2010 A buddy and namesake of mine has a father who is a literature scholar. He wrote his thesis on absurdist drama, Beckett and Ionesco, that sort of thing. This influenced his son’s vocabulary. Once about 1970, when the scholar was out on a walk with his little boy in a stroller, they passed a large…
Sailing Camp
Posted by Martin R on August 27, 2010 I’ve spent three days with my son’s class at Ängsholmen summer camp where the 12-y-os got a chance to reaquaint themselves after the summer and do some fun stuff together. My job, like that of the other three parents who came along, was basically crowd control and security. The camp is on a small U-shaped…
School Girls Fined for Placing Teacher Break Room Under Electronic Surveillance
Posted by Martin R on August 24, 2010 Reports Swedish Broadcasting, Dagens Eko: When two school girls in the 13-16 years age bracket found a lost key ring for their school’s teacher break room, they had an idea. They bought simple audio surveillance equipment in a tech store, waited until everyone went home, and installed the bugging gear in the break room. Their…
Junior Live-Streams His Video Gaming Sessions
Posted by Martin R on August 14, 2010 I used to play a lot of computer games, and 12-y-o Junior loves them. His gaming experience is of course different from mine back in the day, not only because the games look much better now, but also because of on-line interactivity. There are a couple of developments that surprise me a great deal. One…
Little Interpreters
Posted by Martin R on May 31, 2010 When a family migrates, the members who pick up the local lingo first and best are generally the children, and they soon become little interpreters. My wife wrote letters to the Swedish authorities for her Chinese dad from the time she was 11. And when time rolled around for the biannual talk with the teachers…
LinCon 2010 Gaming Convention
Posted by Martin R on May 15, 2010 My two days with Junior at the LinCon gaming convention in Linköping turned out even better than I’d hoped for. I had lots of fun myself, and as a geek dad I was extra happy that Junior took to the whole thing with such gusto. On Thursday evening, for instance, he was play-testing a convoluted…
Schoolyard Sprouts Pagan Burial Monument
Posted by Martin R on May 11, 2010 Last year part of my daughter’s schoolyard was landscaped and fitted with new entertainments. The landscapers also built a stone circle right next to her classroom. (I attended that school myself in 1982-85. The building in the background was the council dentistry clinic where I was fitted with braces.) Structures like these are known as…
Nigerian Islamist Senator Outdoes Catholic Church on Child Rape Issue
Posted by Martin R on May 2, 2010 It is of course a major issue of public discourse these days that the Catholic church has long systematically covered up child rape in the interests of the organisation’s public image. But to my knowledge, nobody has attempted to justify the rapes with reference to Catholic religious doctrine. The church’s attitude has roughly been “We…
Fierce Lion
Posted by Martin R on April 20, 2010 Juniorette has drawn a pretty fierce lion. I imagine sitting in a tree, being growled at from below.
