I hope you all had a pleasant holiday—I had the strange experience of having all three kids come back to our house for the weekend. We'd just gotten rid of them all, and here they were, hangin' about, being normal people, having a quiet couple of days together.
It's a good thing none of the kids have kids of their own yet, or I'd start feeling all patriarchal, and we can't have none of that.
Anyway, everything is getting back to normal now.
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Lance Mannion has a really nice contrast between childhood now and back in the 1970's that doesn't go in the usual decline-of-society direction.
Last week we wondered how having kids affects our own childhood memories. In many ways, our kids remind us of our own childhood, allowing us to relive our favorite memories.
Funding trips for classes of school children is a complicated business in Sweden. This is due to two commonly held conventional ideas. One is that it would be unfair to ask each family to simply pay for their kid, since not all families may be able to afford the trip.
Here I have just a few suggestions for science books for the kiddos. See this post for the adult version.