Tag: children
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Saying It Out Loud
This week I learned something new about myself. I learned that what I’m thinking in my head, when not explicitly told to those I love, is not necessarily known to those love ones. This seems like a very obviously point, but I often make this mistake. I think this could be that I…
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“Pink” College
(old post from 2007) Kate loves watching Blue’s Clues and especially one episode, “Steve goes to college”. So tonight, instead of reading she wanting me to tell her all about college. I used this perfect timing to tell her about learning and doing well in school. Kate: “Is there a pink college? I want to…
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C: Will I hate you when I’m a teenager?
The original post was in 2005 when C. was 5 years old. A few days ago, C asked “Dad, will I hate you as a teenager?” I was a bit caught off guard. I told C that it’s possible that when kids grow into their teenage years, their hormones could change, and they will be testing the…
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Flips and Jumps at Acrosports Gym in San Francico : My First Published And Paid Writing on Yahoo! Contributor Network
Yahoo! bought a company named Associated Content, which was recently changed to Yahoo! Contributor Network. I am the software architect on the backend content management system for Yahoo! Media and actively working with the engineer trying to integrate the great tools from Associated Content into the Yahoo! infrastructure. In order to truly understand the power…
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‘End’ Poem By C. 2010
Poem: ‘End’ My 9 Year Old Daughter’s Poem End “The beginning of the End” Sounds strange. How can an End have a beginning if it is an end? more haikus
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‘If’ Haiku From C 2010
Haiku: ‘If’ Haiku from my 9 year old daughter, C. If If you gotta use the kitchen, that’s just fine with me. If you wanna sit in the living room, help yourself to the sofa. If you gotta use the outhouse, Well… Once I get out, come in and use it. You gotta go bad?…
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‘Unless’ Haiku From C 2010
‘Unless’ Haiku My 9 Year Old Daughter’s Haiku Unless Roses red, larkspurs blue, Daisys white and this paper too. ( Unless you have dirty hands, that is!!! ) Boring (Haiku) more haikus
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‘Boring’ Haiku From C (2010)
Haiku: Boring Haiku by my 9 year old daughter C. Boring Boring,boring,boring,boring.That’s what this poem is.Boring…”Bor” Yawn… more haikus
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Javascript Animation : Teaching Kids Computer Programming Lesson #8
From the last session with C., we have a login screen. Now C. would like the little Yahoo! Messenger guy to bounce around. Click here to see the page in action She fired up TuxPaint and created a drawing of a spring We used Preview to copy it and rotate it into horizontal spring I started…
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Pink Lady Apple Popsicles (archive 2007)
Cate loves loves ice cream. In order to balance her craving against the saturated fats of ice cream, I make her popsicles out of strawberries, raspberries and apples. Her favorite is lady pink apple ones. 1) Take 6 lady pinks, wash and juice them 2) Take a cheese cloth and filter the juice 3 times…
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Using CSS To Realize The Mock Up: Teaching Computer Programming To Kids Lesson #7
Based on Cate’s mock up, we built a real HTML page using CSS. Step 1: Here is how we built the page First I told her about the <div> tag which we can use to divide up different sections of the mock up. So she did the following to divide up the screen into 4…
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Story Board, Mock Ups : Teaching Computer Programming To Kids Lesson #6
Cate is anxious to get her magic eight ball game working on Firefox and was excited with a lot of ideas. Little does she know that I’m a backend programmer and don’t know a whole lot about animation, Javascript and CSS. But I could learn this stuff easily if she wants to as well. So…
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Lists and Tables in HTML: Teaching Computer Programming To Kids : Lesson #5
Cate started to learn about creating lists of things and tables in HTML <UL> : to create an Unordered List of items <LI> : to start a List Item <OL> : to start to create an Ordered Lists and the computer will add the numbers automatically Then if we want to create a table to…
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Magic Eight Ball engine in JavaScript: Teaching Computer Programming To Kids : Lesson #4
Cate wants to make a computer program be to be like the Magic 8 ball, in my last post, I couldn’t remember how to generate a random number. But found it here Math is a class (not an object ), it has 2 class member functions. random() which will give me a random decimal between…
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Simple HTML and Javascript Operators: Teaching Computer Programming To Kids: Lesson 3
As Cate and I were walking to 16th and Mission street Bart station at 7:30am, I talked to her about the arithmetic operators in Javascript. There is + for addition – for subtraction * (kinda funny) for multiplication / (forward slash) for division We went through some examples var x = 12 x = x…
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Baic HTML and Javascript: Teaching Computer Programming To Kids: Lesson 2
After dinner, Cate asked if we can continue to learn about computer programming. I told her I would love nothing more. I told her that I will teach her HTML, Hypertext Markup Language and Javascript. HTML is what designers use to control how a page looks like in Firefox. Javascipt let the programmer add interactivity.…
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Binary Numbers: Teaching Computer Programming to Kids: Lesson 1
This morning Cate and I were eating crepes with hazelnut chocolate and she asked me what this means? “10001001” I think she must have seen it somewhere on a piece of paper or an advertisement. I’ve always found it difficult to talk to her about what my job as a software engineer is, so I…
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Kate: I Love You My Best Sister
From Kate To Laren https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonytam/111502423/
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Kids self portraits made out of paper
Kids are born artists but somehow when we grow up, we lose most of that creativity. These are each child’s self portrait cut out with paper. Absolutely amazing! Check out the flickr photos set
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A Constant Force In Kate’s Life
I usually drive Kate to school on the day I work from home. But this last time I was late by 10 minutes. I had to fill out a little tardy slip for Kate with the reason of ‘traffic’ as an excuse. I strolled leisurely to class with Kate and as I stepped in, 5…
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Kate’s first day of school
Happy parents, happy kids, crying kids whose parents left too fast, socializing with teachers, proud parents, excited Kate. The first day school for Kate, I’m so proud of her. She will enjoy learning at the French American school so much. But I think she will love the corn meal sandbox the most
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Father’s day at Santa Cruz
Father’s day turned out be to more than just Kate and Me at the Broadwalk. My entire family came along and I’m glad they did. My bro-in law rented a van and the 6 of us hopped in and off we went. We got there at 9:45 and Kate and headed immediately to the beach,…
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Kate: the 2nd year: Languages
First I would like to thank craigslist for helping us find all of our French and Japanese babysitters. Kate is blessed with the gift of language early in her life. Angie and I both speak Mandarin at home, and so Kate’s mother tongue is Mandarin. When she was 1 years old, we hired a babysitter…
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Kate: the first year: diet
Angie took the red pill: She started reading the Super Baby Food book and she decided that we will be making all of Kate’s food ourselves. I was lazy and didn’t read the book but the basic principle was that you want lots of colors in the food you give your baby. There are about…
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Kate: a happy child
When someone asks me how Kate (my 4 year old) is doing, the first word that always come out of my mouth is ‘she is very happy’. It’s pretty amazing that this kid is always happy. Very little gets her down. When she and I get into our disagreements, it takes me half a day…