http://blog.parentsguild.com By parents, for parents. Join the guild! Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:11:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/10/first-parents-guild-ad-ever/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/10/first-parents-guild-ad-ever/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:07:25 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1316 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/10/first-parents-guild-ad-ever/feed/ 0 Tada. Our very first placed advertisement will appear, in print, in one of our favorite parenting publications this winter – Brain, Child Magazine. In fact, a version of the ad is already live on their site. We’re super excited. We must be real, right, if we’re advertising? ;) By the way, if you don’t yet [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/09/video-isaac-asimov-on-the-internet-education/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/09/video-isaac-asimov-on-the-internet-education/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:25:11 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1313 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/09/video-isaac-asimov-on-the-internet-education/feed/ 0 This is totally captivating. Way back in 1988, Asimov saw the potential of the Internet to transform education – personalize it, improve the quality of it, engage us as learners in a 1:1 way… “People think of education as something that they finish.” Asimov saw the Internet as changing that. It seems the world is [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/09/growing-child-what-might-your-mom-tell-you-if-you-asked/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/09/growing-child-what-might-your-mom-tell-you-if-you-asked/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:06:55 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1301 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/09/growing-child-what-might-your-mom-tell-you-if-you-asked/feed/ 0 Some suggestions from Ms. Gestwicki and her “Gaggle of Grandmas” we’ve adopted, some are new, all bear repeating and re-posting ;) A gaggle of grandmas By Carol Gestwicki What do you get when you have a gaggle of grandmas? A lot of thoughtful advice, that’s what. I recently asked several of my friends what insights [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/07/further-thoughts-on-jeff-bezos-vs-state-of-ca/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/07/further-thoughts-on-jeff-bezos-vs-state-of-ca/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:46:54 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1296 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/07/further-thoughts-on-jeff-bezos-vs-state-of-ca/feed/ 1 On thinking about this a bit more after all the awesome points raised in the blog comments and on Hacker News… it occurs to me that as a consumer – I buy an item from my house, it arrives at my house – to me, the point of sale is my house. It doesn’t matter [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/07/amazon-how-could-you-dump-us-an-open-letter-to-jeff-bezos/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/07/amazon-how-could-you-dump-us-an-open-letter-to-jeff-bezos/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:07:30 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1284 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/07/amazon-how-could-you-dump-us-an-open-letter-to-jeff-bezos/feed/ 21 Dear Jeff, My husband and co-founder Steve and I have been long-time fans & customers of Amazon. I love what your company brought to online retail, and I love what you’ve brought to our home in particular – books, children’s toys, electronic devices, the kindle, streaming movies, the Amazon Visa card. For awhile you were [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/04/the-flexitarians/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/04/the-flexitarians/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:54:16 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1273 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/04/the-flexitarians/feed/ 1 I came across this story on the blog of a good college friend. I read it, left it, and found it wouldn’t let me go; it spoke so elegantly to my own experience with parenting. With permission of the author, I’m reposting here. Enjoy! – andrea THE FLEXITARIANS by Caroline Cummins During my freshman year [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/04/finally/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/04/finally/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:10:59 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1254 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/04/finally/feed/ 3 We’ve finally freakinlutely unveiled our redesigned website. The graphics have changed (a lot), the functionality largely hasn’t. Go on, check it out. Let us know what you think. Some things that might trip you up a bit at first: there’s no more static homepage describing the mission of the site, we’re just dropping you straight [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/03/video-revolutionizing-education/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/03/video-revolutionizing-education/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:12:08 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1248 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/03/video-revolutionizing-education/feed/ 1 “First time I smiled doing a derivative” - a comment on one of Khan Academy’s videos on YouTube Salman Khan speaks at the TED conference and talks about much more than a few educational videos. He calls for teachers to consider “flipping the traditional classroom” — give students video lectures to watch at their own [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/03/preso-flip-the-curve-getting-better-student-outcomes-with-less/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/03/preso-flip-the-curve-getting-better-student-outcomes-with-less/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:37:28 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1234 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/03/preso-flip-the-curve-getting-better-student-outcomes-with-less/feed/ 5 As my son approaches kindergarten I’ve been doing my best to make sense of the various school options in our area. And, because I’m anal to the 10th degree, this involves touring whatever we can, accosting neighboring parents and friends spontaneously and sporadically for info, and trying to get past the (middlin’) test score valuation [...] http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/02/how-do-you-handle-your-anger/ http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/02/how-do-you-handle-your-anger/#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:59:08 +0000 Andrea http://blog.parentsguild.com/?p=1227 http://blog.parentsguild.com/2011/02/how-do-you-handle-your-anger/feed/ 0 HANDLING ANGER This is a tough one for me, personally, sort of an ongoing question. Some interesting suggestions came just now in my almost-four-year-olds’ Growing Child newsletter. How do you handle your anger? Everyone is born with the capacity to feel anger. Our culture may try to tell us that nice people don’t display their [...]