Items of general interest – for mass consumption
If your kids tend to forget their promises, this might help:
My husband came up with the idea of using the video function on our digital camera to record her promising not to get upset when we say “no” to candy later because we’re letting her have a piece early. It worked! We’ve started doing it other times, too. She loves the digital camera, and it reminds her about the whole “delayed gratification” thing.
Kim’s husband introduced their toddler to the wonders of Google Video:
My husband was searching Google Video for different animal videos (child-friendly ones – hence no SHARK ATTACKS SURFER ones). Our son was in a trance, and he learned the difference between a shark, a whale and a dolphin, he got to see deer, penguins, brown bears, etc. — it was like watching National Geographic personalized and up close.
Our son’s absolute favorite was Matrix Cow – very funny rendition of a cow in a Matrix-style fight – he laughs so hard from the moment the cow snorts and jumps on his back two legs. I have to agree it was pretty funny the first time or two – but he got a bit too attached to this one… “AGAIN, do cow AGAIN”.
If you plot the 7 deadly sins as 7 nodes in a graph, and then convert it to a fully connected graph, each edge in the graph will represent a secondary deadly sin consisting of a pair of the original deadly sins. Then you get this fascinating diagram from:
