by Ada Soto | Mar 28, 2020 | parenting, Proper Blog, writing
Hello Everyone! How’s everyone holding up out there? If you’re like me you have suddenly become a home-schooling house spouse with zero productivity outside of keeping the kid from gnawing through the fence in an escape attempt. Maybe you are stuck at home with...
by Ada Soto | Jul 22, 2016 | parenting
When I picked up my 3 year old from preschool yesterday she was a little subdued. Normally she squeals then runs, and jumps into my arms but yesterday she wanted to finish playing a fishing game with her teacher and show me that she knows her colours. Blue and yellow...
by Ada Soto | May 27, 2016 | Mental Health, parenting
For two hours every week my kid is in a preschool Maori Language play group. It’s a great little program. The kids sing songs, listen to stories, have snack time and a free play time all designed to encourage language skills, social skills, and cultural...
by Ada Soto | Nov 18, 2015 | parenting
The other day I read an article on sfgate about a group of girls in California, just north of where I grew up, who were trying to officially join the Boy Scouts despite there being Girl Scout groups available to them. They feel they are a bitter fit for the Boy Scouts...
by Ada Soto | Mar 29, 2015 | parenting
In all the noise being made about Clean Reader I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the kid. For those who missed it Clean Reader is an app that changes dirty words in ebooks to clean ones. According to their website- One day our oldest child came home...
by Ada Soto | Mar 18, 2015 | parenting, writing
This is basically a short rant concerning a part of parenting. If you are a parent you can probably understand how it is easy to come to loath perfectly good children’s books. They can be wonderful, sweet, interesting, beautifully illustrated stories and after...
