Parents: Talk, Talk, Talk to Your Children from the Start

A great short article in the New York Times recently talks about the benefits of talking to your children from birth, and using regular words with them rather than baby talk:
And you can’t introduce books too early. I remember my niece at 3 months paying rapt attention as her mother “read” picture books to her, [...]

Kroger: Know Your Dollars and Cents!

I was doing some shopping for the kids’ lunches last night, and saw several signs that were written incorrectly.  I took pictures of two of them.  What’s wrong with the price signs below?  You’ll have to remember back to your early education to figure it out.

If you remember your elementary school math, you’ll know that [...]

Are male teachers better in elementary school?

I love listening to NPR’s Neal Conan on Talk of the Nation. He has a way of listening and encouraging others to talk that is engaging, as a listener.
Yesterday, he had a guest who wrote an opinion piece advocating for more men in elementary school teaching jobs. When my son was in pre-K [...]

High School Juniors: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May

In today’s Wall Street Journal is another reminder of how we are robbing our youth of their happiness while pretending to say we care about it:

Almost two-thirds of middle- and upper-middle-income high school students in the San Francisco Bay Area told researchers that they were “often or always” stressed by schoolwork, according to a series [...]

Men Will Be Dumber in the Future

As if we men didn’t have enough of a challenge in getting through life, we men now appear willing to abandon higher education and let women do all the learning:
From the founding of the country’s first (all-male) colleges in the 17th century until just a few decades ago, men received far more education than women. [...]