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How to raise a genius

Posted 06 November 2009 | By James | Categories: Education, Television, doodad read it | No Comments

What’s so wrong with raising little Einsteins? – The Globe and Mail.
Interesting article from Margaret Wente. We own the whole Einstein series and never had the impression or expectation it would make our kids brilliant (we’re hoping genetics will do that). For us they’ve been a little cultured oasis of calm when we or the [...]

Globe & Mail | My grandkid’s a real brat

Posted 05 November 2009 | By James | Categories: Discipline, doodad read it | No Comments

My grandkid’s a real brat – The Globe and Mail.
Love this article.
“Finally, I couldn’t take it any more. I leaned forward, brought my big, mean, bearded face close to the child’s, gazed at him with my beady, bloodshot, malice-filled eyes and said, in a voice full of quiet menace: ‘Listen, you’re bothering me; you’re bothering [...]

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