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performing artist, mom, wife, daughter, sister, aunt, niece... just a regular extraordinary person

Five Dangerous Things YOU Should Do To Your Kid

Posted on 2014/12/18 by circuskitchen

FWIW (“For What It’s Worth”), from the Huffington Post: “Five Dangerous Things YOU Should Do To Your Kid:“ [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-jim-taylor/5-dangerous-things-parent_b_4562960.html] Nutshell: 1) Give Your Children Conditional Love 2) Don’t Praise Your Children 3) Let Your Children Fail 4) Let Your … Continue reading →

Posted in childhood, domestic life, education, faith, family, forgiveness, health, love, mental health, nature, parenthood, work | Tagged 5 Dangerous Things, Abraham and Isaac, bad parenting of biblical proportions, Conditional Love, don't give your kid your iPhone, Don't Praise Your Children, Dr. Jim Taylor, Feel the Failure, Gever Tulley, Give Your Children Conditional Love, Ideas Worth Spreading, IRL FIRST!, LEGO, LEGO Abraham and Isaac, let them be bored, Let Your Children Fail, Let Your Children Feel Bad, Perilous Parenting, TED Talks, TED Weekends | Leave a comment

Mom, I Popped Part of It Off!

Posted on 2014/12/17 by circuskitchen

Wednesday, December 17th 2014 ~6pm It’s like my kid can *smell* the spirit of my Adventure Play Parenting thrust. Bless him. After dialing in on the small hammer at our local hardware store (that has screwdrivers nested in its handle, … Continue reading →

Posted in childhood, domestic life, education, faith, family, forgiveness, health, love, marriage, mental health, parenthood, patience, work | Tagged creative spelling, delivery girl, Dissassembling appliances, Gavin, happy hour, new tools, thanks Bubble Wow | 3 Comments

Five Dangerous Things Kids Should Do

Posted on 2014/12/17 by circuskitchen

Have you heard of Gever Tulley and the Tinkering School? Here is an amazing 4 mins on the types of Life Lessons kids derive from TINKERING: MOREOVER, here is Gever Tulley’s TED Talk on 5 Dangerous Things Kids … Continue reading →

Posted in childhood, domestic life, education, faith, family, forgiveness, health, love, mental health, nature, parenthood, patience | Tagged 5 Dangerous Things Kids Should Do, Chuckie Doll, Deconstruct Appliances, Drive a Car, Gever Tulley, Own a Pocket Knife, Play with Fire, TED Talks, Throw a Spear, Tinkering School | Leave a comment

Kids are Born Scientists: Get Out of Their Way

Posted on 2014/12/15 by circuskitchen

OK, THIS: Want Scientifically Literate Children? [2mins,9secs]: This is the most grumpy I’ve ever seen Neil deGrasse Tyson speak, but I appreciate his conviction. Here the same point articulated another way: Neil deGrasse Tyson and how Kids are Born Scientists … Continue reading →

Posted in childhood, education, health, nature, parenthood | Tagged Carl Sagan, get out of their way, natural scientists, Neil deGrasse Tyson | 1 Comment

Cuteness Overload: ClaraJane and Fluff

Posted on 2014/12/10 by circuskitchen

Thursday, December 10th 2014 @2:25pm This just in. ClaraJane’s ride home from school today: ClaraJane and Fluff [28 seconds]: [http://youtu.be/wDgT_mPGjnM] Correction: I misquoted ClaraJane in this film. Where the subtitle says, “A CJ little girl,” she informs me she in … Continue reading →

Posted in childhood, domestic life, family, love, mental health, nature, parenthood | Tagged bunny rabbit, ClaraJane, cuteness overload, Fluff, fluffy bunny, little girl, squeals and giggles | 1 Comment

Gotta Start Somewhere – ClaraJane and Simra

Posted on 2014/12/08 by circuskitchen

Even as I sit down to type right now, my daughter is climbing out of the empty drawer slot in the living room entertaining our 1 year-old next door neighbor girl, and our son is outside the door making fabulous … Continue reading →

Posted in childhood, domestic life, faith, family, parenthood | Tagged ClaraJane, play kitchen, practically twins, Simra | Leave a comment

Rockwellian Christmas Tree Day

Posted on 2014/12/07 by circuskitchen

Sunday, December 7th 2014 Blessed with no work on this early December Sunday, Dear Hubby and I undertook to take our kids OUT of the city and INTO the country to find ourselves a Christmas Tree. Imagine: A drive just long … Continue reading →

Posted in childhood, domestic life, faith, family, forgiveness, health, love, mental health, nature, parenthood | Tagged Christmas Tree, dressing up the cat, Ho Ho Ho, Kids and Tools, Wolf Hill Farm | Leave a comment

ClaraJane and Mary – True Plintecity

Posted on 2014/12/04 by circuskitchen

December 4th 2014 That time when my 3 year old daughter ClaraJane met her brand new cousin –my sister’s ONE DAY OLD baby daughter Mary– and had this to say: 2014-12-04 True Plintecity [90 seconds]: PS: Posting on March … Continue reading →

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Chain Reactions

Posted on 2014/11/28 by circuskitchen

Friday, November 28th 2014 On this day Gavin and I headed over to M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for our first time attending the annual F.A.T. (Friday after Thanksgiving) CHAIN REACTION event. It was so cool. Teams from anywhere enter … Continue reading →

Posted in childhood, domestic life, education, family, parenthood | Tagged Chain Reaction, F.A.T., kids are natural builders, M.I.T., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, OK GO, Olivia, Rube Goldberg, Rube Goldberg Machines, This Too Shall Pass | 2 Comments

Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Posted on 2014/11/26 by circuskitchen

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Enjoy. Charlie Brown Thanksgiving [25mins]:

Posted in childhood, domestic life, education, faith, family, food, forgiveness, Friendship, love, parenthood | Tagged Charlie Brown Thanksgiving | Leave a comment

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