Book Review: The Hidden Alphabet
Laura Seeger’s The Hidden Alphabet is a work of art posing as an alphabet book.
What to do on your 43rd visit to the Boston Museum of Science
OK, so maybe we haven’t really been to the Boston Museum of Science 43 times this year, but sometimes it sure can feel like it. So where do you go when your preschooler has memorized the dinosaur exhibit, categorized the complete contents of the midden heap, swarmed the Butterfly Garden, grown tired of the Apollo and Mercury space capsules, eked every last bit of joy out of the orbiting marbles in Mathematica, and despaired of the chaos in Science in the Park?
In which we visit the Magic Flute Toy Shop
While we were tooling around the Monadnock region this summer, we stumbled upon the Magic Flute Toy Shop, a rather amazing toy store hidden behind an unassuming store front in a strip mall in Peterborough, NH, about thirty minutes northeast of Hillsborough.
What to read, what to read?
My daughter is just beginning to be interested in books with more chapters than pictures. We’ve read Thornton Burgess’ Animal Stories together already and just finished…
In which my daughter negotiates her first hourly rate
Preschooler, evaluating whether or not she’d like to volunteer with her mother at the local animal shelter:
“Will they pay us in free kittens?”
Dreams
Father to preschooler who has woken up crying in the night: “Did you have a bad dream?”
Preschooler: “It was a very disappointing dream. It was winter and all the flowers were gone.”
Science News Roundup: The Big Splat!
Our top news this week: Earth may have once had two moons, raising important questions about the future of Tatooine.
Music Review – Snacktime!
Music consistently smooths the rough 3 o’clock patch in our four-year-old’s afternoon. Fresh home from preschool, often completely tired out but too stubborn to take a nap, my daughter just wants to park herself on the couch and watch TV. But if I start playing the Barenaked Ladies preschooler-friendly album Snacktime!, my daughter miraculously regains the ability to draw, color, and help her dinosaurs postpone extinction for another day.
In which we march in our town’s 4th of July parade
One of my favorite parts of living in a small New England town is the fact that for a dollar, you and your child can march in the Fourth of July Children’s Parade.
In which we visit Monadnock Berries
As you may remember, one of our more memorable road trips this summer was to a berry picking farm in New Hampshire. Monadnock Berries is a family owned and operated 225-year-old farm within sight of Mount Monadnock in Troy, NH. Finding this place was an adventure all in itself, as our car’s GPS seems to be allergic to country roads. Fortunately, there were plenty of signs to help us out when our GPS sneezed.
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