“We think pockets are for cramming full of useful things,” write the brothers Iggulden on page one of the Dangerous Book for Boys, kindly supplying a list of what they describe as “essential gear” for every boy: Swiss Army knife, compass, handkerchief, matches, a marble, needle and thread, pencil and paper, flashlight, magnifying glass, band-aids [...]
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Non-Essential Gear
Posted in Ten and Up, Uncategorized, tagged Boys, Gear on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Quest Continues
Posted in Boys and Girls, Indoors, Moderate Difficulty, Moms and Dads, Science, Ten and Up, tagged Fathers, Making a Battery, Moms and Dads on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The latest in my continuing quest to do every challenge in The Dangerous Book for Boys with my sons in a year… So far, at least two people at Ace and three at Raley’s have been stumped by blotting paper (not to mention yours truly). My wife and the old man in the paper aisle [...]
What the Heck is Blotting Paper?
Posted in Boys and Girls, Indoors, Moms and Dads, Science, Ten and Up, tagged Making a Battery, Moms and Dads on March 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The latest in my continuing quest to do every challenge in The Dangerous Book for Boys with my sons in a year… We went to Ace Hardware today to get the ingredients for our homemade battery. Stopping at the front cash register, we asked the clerk if they had any blotting paper. Blotting paper is [...]
Hearing the Voice
Posted in Boys and Girls, Indoors, Moderate Difficulty, Moms and Dads, Science, Ten and Up, tagged Making a Battery on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Trying to heed my own advice (always a dangerous thing) and be more child-led in this endeavor, I asked each boy which activity or project he’d like to do next (but no building a treefort or tanning skins; I’m not there yet). Hank chose “Making a Battery,” upon which a question immediately popped into my [...]
