That makes it sound so dramatic, when what this really is is just a miscellaneous post:
1) Yesterday my ex-husband called from where he'd taken the kids for Father's Day and said, "You need to read this article in the NY Times about how divorced moms are no longer cool. " You can imagine my reaction to that. So I wrote a response to the article, and it's up on the co-parenting blog.
2) I...don't...know...if I can...make it...through...the last week...of school... Why is NYC public in school so blasted long every year? Anyone else still suffering through it, too?
3) The company I work for is running a Summer Challenge for kids in grades 3-8 to stop summer slide by playing our math and literacy video games for a chance to win prizes. (Parents know that the playing is the point to practice skills, but kids think the competition is the point.) It's free to play, free to win, all free.
Go to http://www.DimensionU.com and sign your child up (or have them do it) as a student. During the sign-up process they'll need to put in your email, and you'll get an email asking to give permission for them to play. Click through the link in that email to give them permission to play, then download the game to your computer, and then every time they log in to the game and play they're practicing grade-level appropriate skills and earning points for a chance to win prizes. Play ends August 7.
3a) If your child is age 4 through grade 2, check out Dreambox Learning, which makes delightful, very smartly-designed math video games for kids too young to play a multiplayer game like ours.
4) Who's got a link to summer reading lists or online summer reading clubs for me? (If you put the "http://" part in the link it'll hyperlink in the comments.)
Up here in Ontario, we go till next Thursday. But it's already feeling loosey goosey after the two back-to-back school trips last week.
Our library system sponsors a huge summer reading club every summer. We've decided to do our own, however. For every book my 8 year old completes, he gets $1. At the end of summer, I'll pay him the money he earned and he can get a big Lego. I'll be doing reading of bigger books at the same time.
Posted by: Leanne | June 20, 2011 at 01:24 PM
Awesome job on the other blog. I am sending a couple of friends there to read it so will comment here. Thanks for your wisdom and honesty.
Posted by: Jill | June 20, 2011 at 01:33 PM
Looking for some summer books to read. Just finished "Room" and "Water for Elephants." Looking for suggestions.
Posted by: Kathy B | June 20, 2011 at 06:28 PM
Book suggestion for fiction I think the Moxites would like - 2 books by Marisa de Los Santos - "Love Walks In" and "Belong to Me". Great characters, and beautifully written. Two of my all-time favorites, that I discovered totally by accident at our local Goodwill :)
Posted by: ARC | June 20, 2011 at 11:31 PM
I always poke around on the NPR website for summer reading lists and always find something I like, from the afternoon show to Fresh Air, there are some good lists!
here's one link: http://www.npr.org/sections/books/
Posted by: bethp | June 21, 2011 at 12:33 AM
Moxie, do you guys do apps as well?
Posted by: Jilly | June 21, 2011 at 04:28 AM
Just read the Kite Runner finally. Now reading "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire.
Posted by: Kelly | June 21, 2011 at 08:44 AM
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova was fantastic!
Posted by: Nelle | June 21, 2011 at 09:47 AM
Loved @Moxie's response to that elitist, patriarchal NYT article.
Recent good reads of mine: "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot; "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett; "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield; "The Imperfectionists" by Tom Rachman; and "Away" by Amy Bloom.
Posted by: hush | June 21, 2011 at 06:15 PM
Thank you for the links!!!
And our school is going until next Monday, June 27. My son's 8th bday and first to ever be celebrated in school. And hopefully the last.
Posted by: crescentgirl | June 22, 2011 at 09:35 PM
And ... awesome NYT rebuttal. I hope the writer/editors take note.
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