New tech still needs old fashioned communication skills
Hearing my eleven-year-old on a phone call is equal parts cringe-worthy and hilarious. You’ll note I said “call”. Not a Zoom or FaceTime or te...
Category: parenting
Enjoy the road traveled
I recently had a minor epiphany. Or perhaps not so minor. My wife is a teacher and has regular report cards due, which is always a slog in the household: She...
Old dog, new tricks
In my ongoing struggle with tech, it wasn’t surprising that at some point, I’d have to replace a laptop battery. So it was with my half decade-ish o...
Looking back on a month off of social media
Today marks the last day of my month away from Twitter and Mastodon (and Tumblr, which I recently realized I was still on). What I will or won’t do with T...
Celebrate progress, not perfection
I heard that phrase recently in regard to a new podcast that’s out. With apologies, I don’t recall which podcast it is, but I loved the phrase becau...
Lego remains awesome, but…
There’s a time in a parent’s life–I’m making a sweeping assumption here based on my own experience, but I’d bet money it’s a...
How to feel old fast
My nine-year-old daughter has had some interest in coding for the last couple of years. Now bear in mind, at that age, “coding” is pretty much using...
Lessons learned from children
There’s a lot that grown-ups can learn from kids. Yes, we have bills to pay and jobs to go to (or, even more stressful for many more these days, not), and...
Summer camps in Covid times
I write this shortly after my nine-year-old has been dropped off at a summer day camp. Your reaction to that line will range from some variation of “Hey, ...