Author: Caroline
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Sugar sugar
Fourth grade science lesson: Amount of sugar people 200 years ago ate in a day (2 teaspoons), vs. amount of sugar people eat in a day now (22 teaspoons).
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Tulip Fest is back for 2021
An extremely cold and wet day at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. The boys only looking excited because I’m promising them ice cream! ice cream! (Funny how that works, ice cream makes them smile even when they are shivering and soaked and it’s raining sideways.) Tulips won’t be out for another week at least, but…
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Kid-recommended books and shows
We do better when we’re hooked on a series; it takes away the agony of picking the next book. For Paul, that’s Pete the Cat right now. What are you reading and watching? I asked around and got a bunch of kid-recommended books and shows for this Seattle Times story.
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One-year anniversary of remote school
It’s been one year since my kids were in school, and I’m not sorry about it at all. I was a little nervous writing this (let the hate mail begin!), but I feel like the whole conversation has been dominated by overwhelmed parents and depressed students. There ARE kids for whom remote learning is working…
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Why we should keep reading Dr. Seuss
I wrote my first guest op-ed, about why we should keep reading Dr. Seuss. It’s in today’s Seattle Times, and the comments on this thread are .