#parenting (73 links)
- Hedy - Textual programming made easy hedy.org
Python however is hard, because it is only available in English, and requires learners to learn complex programming concepts and syntax at once. Hedy is the easy way to get started with textual programming languages!
- Let's Get Creative bryanbraun.com
A collection of high-quality, free, online creativity tools.
- A wee pedal aweepedal.com
Confidence rides for individuals / families. Learn to ride for children and adults. Women’s only bike maintenance classes.
- The Self Educating Child mrmoneymustache.com
Through some sort of miracle, my son has chosen to invest the past five years of his free time seeking out astoundingly good YouTube channels, watching most of their back catalogs, and absorbing the contents of almost every episode.
- Tynker tynker.com
self-paced online courses for children to learn coding at home, as well as specially designed curriculum for schools and camps.
- Toontastic 3D toontastic.withgoogle.com
A creative storytelling app that empowers kids to draw, animate, narrate, and record their own cartoons on their tablet, phone or Chromebook.
- MagicaVoxel ephtracy.github.io
A free lightweight GPU-based voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer.
- Mine-imator mineimator.com
Create animated videos using blocks, items and the lovable characters from Minecraft.
- p5.js p5js.org
a JavaScript library for creative coding, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, educators, beginners, and anyone else
- iorama.studio iorama.studio
- 10 Great Kids Comics for Early Readers | Mental Floss mentalfloss.com
- Nino – Bern Helmets bernhelmets.com
- Understanding tyre pressure | Islabikes islabikes.co.uk
- Maintaining your Islabike | Islabikes islabikes.co.uk
- nimbl nimbl.com
- Mozilla X-Ray Goggles goggles.mozilla.org
- Imagining a Better Boyhood - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
- The Game - Zoombinis Website external-wiki.terc.edu
- Teach your child to ride a bike | Islabikes islabikes.co.uk
- 10 Tips For Raising Resilient Kids | Psych Central psychcentral.com
- ‘Fatherhood penalty’ now a risk for men, warns charity theguardian.com
<blockquote>The UK risks creating a “fatherhood penalty” as an increasing number of men jettison their careers for less demanding jobs which give them more time with their families, according to a major new study.</blockquote>
- Secrets of In the Night Garden theguardian.com
- In the Night Garden is secretly teaching our toddlers Chaucer newstatesman.com
- Building Tips: Supporting Wooden Tracks with Your Block Platform dreamuptoys.com
- Play Trains! play-trains.com
Excellent, in-depth wooden train blog (Brio etc).
- A letter to … All of the permissive parents today theguardian.com
<blockquote>Be gentle. Be kind. Be caring. Be empathetic and understanding. But be in charge. Because one day your wild, spoilt toddler will be an angry, unsocialised teenager, and by then it’ll be too late.</blockquote>
- The TKSST Gift Guide tksstgiftguide.tumblr.com
- How Much Do Parents Matter? theatlantic.com
- HE GAVE US HIS WORLD washingtonpost.com
- Our boys need to be rescued, and it’ll take a new kind of role model | Gaby Hinsliff theguardian.com
<blockquote>Boys need role models who don’t seek to glamorise slacking, winging it or sneering at the smart kids; who make it look cool to stretch yourself at school, and can tap into their competitive instincts. But above all they need grown men to champion them not by lashing out at girls, but cheerfully equipping boys to compete. Boys aren’t born bad. So for heaven’s sake, let’s not push them that way.</blockquote>
- Wooden Train Parenting - Charlie's Diary antipope.org