Per Design

Mostly musings on design

Per Design

  • A parents love

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    A parents’ love is getting up at 4 am to help the toddler that is coughing and complaining about needing to blow their nose and otherwise suffering the effects of a cold. A husbands’ love is to get out the humidifier for the toddler above so the wife can go back to sleep.

  • Thoughts inspired from reading Parenting Without Borders

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    Ben
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    The key to successful teaching of children is: high but reasonable expectations, clear explanations on the reasons behind the teaching, modeling the teaching for the child and finally, letting the child have lots of practice. Ultimately though, this goes beyond just teaching children – this model covers teaching anybody, anything Oh and Christine Gross-Loh’s book…

  • October means constent leaf pickup

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    Ben
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    So living in Michigan, I’ve now learned that October means constant leaf pickup. I guess I could wait until it all finishes dropping but I would like my lawn to get some decent sunlight and growing prior to it snowing. At any rate, it’s good exercise and the kids are pretty helpful as well.