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big kids

My kids are my great kitchen apprentices

Cooking is a total sensory and educational experience — my kids have learned fractions and enhanced math skills with the measuring of ingredients — just by hanging with me in the kitchen.

Reading fantasy fiction and raising independent kids

Besides their heavy-handed religious allegory, eurocentrism, phallocentrism and imperialism, the Narnia books suffer from a problem common in children’s literature. We’ll call it the Aslan Dilemma.

Be Who You Are: a book about a transgender child

On her blog Today You Are You, Jennifer Carr writes about her daughter’s growth from boy to girl — a transformation that began at age four. And now she’s written a book…

The most merry unbirthday ever

You’ve never seen a ten-year-old’s birthday celebrated quite like this.

The Nightmare Before Christmas dessert bar

If you and your winter kid celebrate Christmas, try working their birthday in to your holiday celebration with an offbeat table full of delicious sweets, all inspired by Tim Burton’s epic Halloween-slash-Christmas claymation flick, The Nightmare Before Christmas.

How roller derby changed my daughter’s life

Zeke’s daughter began participating in her local Junior Derby in 2009, and quickly came into her own as a result. He writes about how roller derby has changed her for the positive.

New Year’s resolutions for parents AND children

Nita was working out her own New Year’s Resolutions when her kids inquired about the meaning of the tradition, and then came up with a few of their own.