The latest in my quest to do every challenge in The Dangerous Book for Boys with my sons in a year… There are some real tough challenges in The Dangerous Book for Boys (building a tree house and bow and arrow, hunting, cooking and tanning a rabbit, learning grammar), and then there are some challenges [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Skipping Stones
Posted in Boys and Girls, Easy, Moms and Dads, Nature, Outdoors, Six and Up, tagged Boys and Girls, Moms and Dads, Skipping Stones on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Making a Bow and Arrow: Boys’ Rite of Passage?
Posted in Difficult, Eight and Up, Nature, Readin' & Writin', tagged Bow and Arrow, Boys, Children's Books, Crafts, Fathers on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More from The Dangerous Quest: “At some point,” says The Dangerous Book for Boys on page 35, “you may consider making a bow and arrow.” Actually, in all my life I have never considered making a bow and arrow until now, until I began this rather strange quest with my sons. After reading the book’s [...]
Slaying the Dreaded Video Game Beast
Posted in Boys and Girls, Crafts, Easy, Indoors, Moms and Dads, Parenting Tips, Six and Up, tagged Boys and Girls, Moms and Dads, Paper Airplanes on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The latest in my mad quest to do every challenge in The Dangerous Book for Boys with my sons in a year…Today I gave my son the choice between learning to make paper airplanes or playing his new Mario Party 8 game on the Wii. Gabe chose the Wii, leaving me to build the planes [...]
Shel Silverstein to the Rescue!
Posted in Boys and Girls, Easy, Indoors, Moms and Dads, Parenting Tips, Readin' & Writin', Six and Up, tagged Boys, Boys and Girls, Children's Books, Moms and Dads, Poems on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Tight Hat,” Where The Sidewalk Ends By Kevin Nelson The latest in my quest to do every challenge in The Dangerous Book for Boys with my sons in a year— Inspired by the DBFB’s dictum that in order to have a proper education every boy should read poetry—a dictum with which we wholeheartedly agree—we reintroduced [...]
Kasey’s Advice: “Keep Up the Fun”
Posted in Boys and Girls, Crafts, Indoors, Moms and Dads, Parenting Tips, Six and Up, tagged Blotting paper, Making a Battery on April 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
By Kevin Nelson The latest in my quest to do every challenge in The Dangerous Book for Boys with my sons in a year— Karen Kath, a retired teacher who goes by the name of Kasey, weighed in recently on the surprisingly lively debate about blotting paper versus construction paper in the building of our [...]
Educational Value of Poker
Posted in Boys and Girls, Easy, Eight and Up, Indoors, Parenting Tips, tagged Boys and Girls, Moms and Dads, Poker on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On a recent post about playing poker, I talked about the educational value of teaching children how to shuffle and deal cards and play Texas Hold ‘Em. But I had no idea that poker could potentially have future educational uses for young people later in life. As Lillian Kaiser explains, “I was in Borders in [...]
Forward!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We welcome these new subscribers and fellow Questers to this space: Lillian Kaiser, David Nelson, Annette Kaiser, Peytie Schuler, Karen Kath, Cynthia Kaiser and Bruno Kaiser. You are in the advance guard of what promises to be a grand army of questers. Forward!
