Tag: children
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Found GC4XEPP School Run
This checkin to GC4XEPP School Run reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A second quick geocache find while the 6 year-old and I took a stroll around the village, which - as of yesterday - became our home! Nice to see the lights here that'll help protect her during our …
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Tour of our old house
We've only got a couple of days left before we move to our new house. In order that she and her little brother might better remember our old house, I encouraged our 6 year-old to record a video tour.
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Pyjama Party Water Fight
There comes a point where you've run out of new lockdown activity ideas, and you just start combining random pairs of activities you've already done.
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Fox In Sox
Here's a new trick, Mr. Knox: Wes Tank raps Dr. Seuss's Fox In Sox to Dr. Dre beats.
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Gratitude
Dan is grateful for a great many things, despite the current crisis.
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Homeschooling While Working From Home During a Global Pandemic Bingo
McSweeney's Internet Tendency provides a bingo card for those of us suddenly and unexpectedly homeschooling.
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The Happy Song
The most delightful, joyous, carefree song you'll hear all week, plus a music video that's equal parts stop-motion and saccharine.
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'There's zero evidence that it's worse for children'
Yet another article showing that - except for the bigotry of other people - there are no downsides to being a child of polyamorous parents.
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Parent-child play: It's constant and exhausting, but is there a better way?
Dan muses on a Slate article about the challenges of being your child's playmate.
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Water Science
Dan and the kids participate in some citizen science, testing the water quality in the Oxford Canal.
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The 5 year-old and the 2 year-old are playing at running a veterinary surgery (the 5 year-old's department) and animal shelter (the 2 year-old's department)...
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Dan instructs a 5 year-old in diagnosing and replacing a blown PSU in her mother's computer.
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Dan helps a 5 year-old launch stomp rockets to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch.
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How a video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
Mat Westhorpe on how the Elite Dangerous videogame player community came together to bring as much joy as possible to the final weeks of the life of his 15 year-old nephew. Is somebody cutting onions in here?
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Visit the Ashmolean Museum
Keep an eye out for our youngest (and, briefly, me!) in this promotional video just released by the Ashmolean Museum.