Tag Archives: the kid

Child Development: The “Litest” RPG

Posted on May 25, 2020 by

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 →

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Child development: the self-propelled tomato

Posted on August 6, 2019 by

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 →

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Cognitive development: pics and puns!

Posted on May 30, 2019 by

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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Toddler Cognitive Development: And then the questions began.

Posted on May 19, 2017 by

(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 →

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Parental Cognitive Development: Devolution to BUS

Posted on February 3, 2017 by

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 →

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Year in Review: The Kid in 2016

Posted on December 31, 2016 by

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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Toddler Linguistic Development: Sentences!

Posted on August 23, 2016 by

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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America Food for America Day!

Posted on July 8, 2016 by

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 →

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Toddler Linguistic Development: 語彙収集

Posted on June 11, 2016 by

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 →

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Toddler Cognitive Development: Magical thinking and bicycle riding

Posted on May 21, 2016 by

The Magic Word The kid is learning to say “please”! I’ve been making a point of prompting him when he asks for things or asks us to do things for him. First I try asking “What do you say?” (なんと言う?, … Continue reading →

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