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Child Development: Words with character(s)
The Tomato Princess has been expanding her vocabulary day by day, and it’s interesting watching the way she’s trying out the use of various words. When her older brother was the same age, we actually used quite a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Musing, Nonfiction
Tagged bilingualism, learning Japanese, speaking practice, the kid, Tomato Princess, vocabulary, writing practice
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Child Development: The “Litest” RPG
A road to gaming As part of my nefarious secret plot to induct my kids into the joy of nerdy gaming, I’ve been introducing The Kid to various activities in that vein for a while now. This actually began when … Continue reading
Posted in Musing, Nonfiction
Tagged invention, nerdery, RPG, social development, the kid
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Child development: the self-propelled tomato
As some readers may already know from other sources, The Kid has a little sister now. Not too long after she was born I looked at her round, red face and thought, Oh, a tomato. So now one of her … Continue reading
Posted in Musing, Nonfiction
Tagged desert rain frog, mobility, physical development, the kid, Tomato Princess
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Cognitive development: pics and puns!
It’s been a long time since I used this blog to publicly marvel at the kid’s development, but this one’s too good to let pass unremarked-on. In his preschool they’ve been working on drawing, and on writing letters and numerals; … Continue reading
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Tagged cognitive development, puns, the kid, writing systems
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Toddler Cognitive Development: And then the questions began.
(Note: Because we’re working on raising the kid Japanese/English bilingual, pretty much all my conversations with him these days are about 99% in Japanese. I render everything below in English for simplicity’s sake.) So the kid’s thing, recently, has been … Continue reading
Posted in Musing, Nonfiction
Tagged cognitive development, emotions, questions, shapes, the kid, what is it doing
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Parental Cognitive Development: Devolution to BUS
The kid continues to grow and learn. He’s picking up all sorts of phrases at daycare… and inventing some of his own? (For example, asking for “don don choo choo” videos. I have no idea what kind of train that might … Continue reading
Posted in Musing, Nonfiction
Tagged brain rewiring, cognitive development, language, Squirrel!, the kid
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Year in Review: The Kid in 2016
At the start of 2016 I was a full-time stay-at-home dad. When I had errands to run, I strapped the kid to my chest and walked or got on the bus. He was curious and observant, but couldn’t express himself … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, cognitive development, linguistic development, the kid
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Toddler Linguistic Development: Sentences!
The kid has been building up his vocabulary in both English and Japanese, of course, and at some point started stringing words together. At first, if I recall, it was a couple of stock phrases like “all done,” then rudimentary … Continue reading
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Tagged adjectives, insects, linguistic development, sentences, the kid
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America Food for America Day!
For the Fourth of July, we didn’t do anything special. There was some sort of musical event downtown starting at dusk, capped off with fireworks at about 10pm. But the kid’s bedtime is at 8:00, so it was unclear whether … Continue reading
Toddler Linguistic Development: 語彙収集
The kid has been on a real growth spurt recently – in terms of his vocabulary. Despite our intent to use plenty of Japanese with him in order to raise him properly bilingual, we’re using both English and Japanese (and … Continue reading