2007 May 09 | BlogSchmog

ARCHIVE / May 9th, 2007
Blow my horn
Archie’s going through a hitting phase lately. He’s unsuccessfully attempting to merge his violence and threats with our gentle parenting attempts at providing reasonable choices and limits. Observe:

Archie: I want to watch something when we get home.
Me: We’ve got the TV off during the week. You can play outside with me, or we could go [...]

Posted on May 09.07 to Archie's Antics, Mama Journal, Parenting 2 Comments
The next phase for Informatics
There is a nice write-up in the IU Alumni Association magazine about the IU School of Informatics. The article gives a nice historical overview of how the program came to exist and talks about the transition. I think it is important that when the new dean arrives this summer, he is greeted with a stack of position papers from various groups within our Informatics community.

Posted on May 09.07 to BlogSchmog, In the News, Of Course 2 Comments
Farm boy
Today Carter’s’ class went to Pedon Farms for a very fun field trip. There were enough parent volunteers that each parent just had two kids to watch- which believe me, was enough in the chaos. We started off with a hayride- here are some snippets of conversation:
Child 1: Will you look at that view? It’s [...]

Posted on May 09.07 to BlogSchmog, Conversations with Carter, Mama Journal, Parenting 1 Comment