Category: Parenting
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Computers in School: A Letter to Ann Arbor Parents
“I believe that education which does not occur through forms of life or that are worth living for their own sake, is always a poor substitute for the genuine reality and tends to cramp and to deaden.” -John Dewey Consider the scenario: A salesperson for Skittles makes a case that every student should have a…
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The End of People Watching
Airports always used to be a source of entertainment. I remember, as a kid, being excited to see all these interesting strangers going to exotic places: stressed families on a Spring Break trip to Florida, serious business travelers prepping a pitch en route to New York, bachelorettes in cowboy hats drinking their way to Nashville.…
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FanDuel Made Me a Baseball Dad (Sort Of)
Kids have a funny way of dictating your interests, and sometimes even making you compromise your own principles. In my case, a few months ago my son James started playing baseball—a sport I abandoned at age 7, precisely the moment I was asked to hit a ball that was moving. I had actually been an…
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