Archive for September, 2007
Key’d racer
Saturday, September 29th, 2007My internal musings and real life intersected yesterday, when out of the blue, Andy asked if we could buy the software program, Type to Learn. This, just an hour after I posted about keyboarding and the sad demise of cursive. It seems he’s clocked the second fastest typing speed in his class, and he wants […]
QWERTY questions
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Will keyboarding triumph where Handwriting Without Tears failed for my child? Andy’s always had handwriting issues (except for one perfect moment in third grade, when he proclaimed, “Cursive rocks”). These days, it’s as if thoughts rush from his brain like a river in spring, down through his arm, then hit his tightly clenched fingers on the pencil, […]
Neopets.com
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007I play on Neopets.com for about on and off for about 1-2 hours a day. It is so fun. You can play games, chat with other owners, talk to your friends or just explore. I think people should try Neopets. People will love it.
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A week without TV
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007This summer, I came up with the crazy idea that each person in the family could command one week by coming up with eight “rules” for the rest of the family. It came to be known as “So and so’s perfect world.” Topping my list of rules during Nancy’s Perfect World was the simple statement: […]