by Deborah Quinn | Nov 18, 2012 | growing up, Kids, legos, Parenting, preemies
If you’re a person who writes a blog and if that blog should talk about your children if you have them (or your pets if you don’t, although really it’s about the same thing, isn’t it?), then the occasion of a birthday – theirs or yours...
by Deborah Quinn | Jan 8, 2012 | Children, Education, Feminism, Gender, Kids, legos, Politics, pop culture, ranting
A friend circulated this ad on facebook. Maybe you saw it as it made the rounds? The ad is from 1981, not a year particularly celebrated for female achievement (although it was the year Britney Spears was born, so I suppose that counts for something). I love legos and...
by Deborah Quinn | Oct 8, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Children, legos, moving, shopping
We left New York in July with 12–TWELVE–suitcases in tow. For a variety of reasons we decided not to ship any personal items and instead we took full advantage of our business class tickets, which allowed us each 3 checked bags, at 26 kilos each. If...
by Deborah Quinn | Jul 1, 2010 | Children, legos
The other night Liam built a lego ship that looked like this: What prompted him to create this all-black gunship, piloted by a man dressed in black, right down to his black slouchy hat? ? Rage, pure and simple. He’d come home from soccer camp to discover that...
by Deborah Quinn | Jun 29, 2010 | Kids, legos
It began about a week ago. “What’s the date, mommy?” Caleb would ask. And then he would carefully count from whatever that date was, to the 29th. Oh well, that makes sense, you say, because the 29th is the first official day of summer vacation for NYC...
by Deborah Quinn | May 31, 2010 | Kids, legos
Liam’s 4th grade has finished two rounds of standardized tests–three days for reading/writing, three days for math–and they’ve got two days of science tests still to do. Given all the practice tests and at-home tests and in-class work on...
