I have been reading a lot of children’s books recently, either to the boys at bedtime or to vet them for future bedtimes. Our kids tend towards fantasy and tales of knights and wizards, and I try to find books that are suitable for 5- and 8-year-olds that I’ll enjoy reading too. I’ve been keeping […]

“Who wants to weave potholders when you can build a robot instead?” runs the tagline for a NY Times article this week (“Arts and Crafts for the Digital Age”). It is a provocative question, and one that is not really addressed in the article itself, but I find it sad that the natural assumption is […]