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Money Lessons for Little Folks

Posted in family finances, family life, learning, summer, vacation on Aug 10th, 2010

So, last weekend my family and I were up in the Catskill Mountains, in upstate New York, at a family-style resort we’ve been going to, on and off, my whole life (my dad used to go there as a teen, that’s how long we’ve been patrons of this particular spot). By “family” I mean a [...]

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Babies are smart after all! (Or, why I’m justified not having gone to Mommy & Me class)

Posted in babies, learning on Aug 18th, 2009

Have you read this article in the New York Times yet? It’s by writer and psychologist Alison Gopnik, and it’s gotten a bunch of media play in the last few days, because it’s about something supposedly revolutionary: Babies, Gopnik asserts, are quite a bit smarter than we think. I’m pretty sure I knew that already. [...]

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