Posts tagged with Parenting
Spoiled, By Design
The success of one generation should change the lives of the next. This is the fundamental immigrant story. My parents made the decision in their late 30s, dragging along three kids from Hong Kong across the Pacific Ocean to settle…
Imparting Online Security onto the Next Generation
I just spent three weeks—mostly weekends, but also waiting days for email responses from customer support—trying to settle my son's Xbox account. All he wanted to do was play Minecraft on his desktop PC. But neither…
The Underwhelming State of Digital Family Calendars
I guess there's real demand for easily visible family calendars. The NY Times recently featured an article on the Skylight Hearth calendar: essentially a vertically mounted touchscreen monitor, dedicated to running a subscription calendar service with a couple…
Raising Readers in the Digital Age
I still remember my grade school years. Immigrating to North America and enrolled in English-as-Second-Language (ESL) classes in Canada, I felt accomplished to just keep up with reading assignments, not realizing that they were greatly simplified for non-native speakers. Eventually,…
Review: Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters
If there's a category of literature that's invites more skepticism than self-help books, it may be self-help parenting books. The genre combines the pseudo-science of pop psychology and copious amounts of anecdotal evidence, with the added…
Educational Equity vs. Exceptionalism
First, some personal news: I've recently started a new job as the VP of Engineering at Kiddom! Upon leaving my previous role at Mystery, I found myself still intrigued by the educational space and how it intersects—or…
