Social Anxiety and Trying To Not Screw Up My Kid
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 awareness. I hate it. It is the worst two hours […]
WoHeLo
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 because “they (Girl […]
Clean Reader – won’t somebody please think of the children
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 from school and she was a […]
Why I Effing Hate Little Critters (it’s for literary reasons)
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 the 300th reading you want to burn the fucking things but it […]
Fandom, Friendship, and The Next Generation
(I know this is meant to be a blog about writing but if you follow my twitter, @adamariasoto, you’ll know the reason for the extended brain fade. This is the first attempt at putting fingers to keyboard in months and will probably be a little rambley and disjointed.) I was not popular in school, and […]