She's five already? Yup. She's five. I'm starting to feel a measure of kinship with the countless parents I've heard complain about their kids growing up too fast. I say "a measure", because there's no "too fast" in there for me, at least not yet. My daughter keeps getting smarter and more independent, she keeps … Continue reading Growing up

Child development inconveniently does not follow a neat yearly schedule, so it's difficult to distill a single year into one or two clear themes for storytelling (or blogging) purposes. But two things do nonetheless stand out from my daughter's fourth year: (1) fierce drive to learn and do things on her own without help and … Continue reading Doing things on your own