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See the positive, understand the gain
I do not live my life in a typical way. Of course, what is “typical”, but here it tends to mean that those around me whose lives intersect with mine in some meaningful way… my life doesn’t follow their...
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Learning to program
Youngest walks up to me about a month ago and asks how you program (write software for computers). Oh joy! Now I’ve talked about learning to program before and even a second time. I always come back to...
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More stuff for learning to program
A few days ago I wrote about Scratch, a nifty way to help my kids learn how to program. I forgot a couple other things I found. Stencyl. This looks neat. It I haven’t used it, but from what I read it...
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Sometimes, you gotta be Dad first
As the kids get older, it’s been fun to take them to various events to “expand their cultural horizons”. I remember when I was a kid, my parents taking me to things like plays, musicals, orchestral...
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Children learn from our example
“The Angry Coach” at EliteFTS was writing A Sad Commentary on the State of Youth Sports. As I read it, it actually felt like a sad commentary on today’s youth and parenting in general. He was observing...
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Improvised Weapons, and kids
Of all the presentations at the 2nd annual SDS Conference, the 3 kiddos were unanimous in what their favorite presentation was. Leslie Buck‘s presentation on improvised weapons. (yeah, it should have...
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Teach your children these four vital things
Our society puts high value on three things: Our children Their education Their safety We value our children because we love them, because they are our future (and our legacy), and because they are...
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KR Training 2014-08-30 – DLG-E Quick Hits
This past Saturday was an especially good one for me. KR Training was holding two classes: Defensive Long Gun Essentials and Skill Builder. But it was a slightly different day for me. I was Dad, in...
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Facepalm
One of the men lifted his shirt to display a handgun tucked into the waist of his pants, [Lt. James] Espinoza said. Moments later, five or six other men began beating up the 37-year-old coach. One of...
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Gone Huntin’
Sign picture found via Google Image Search, from Jackie’s Crafts. Gone hunting with Oldest. Thanx, Karl.Filed under: Guns, Hunting, Kids, Me Tagged: Guns, Hunting, Kids, Me
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Life’s better, when you focus on the good things
Yesterday I went deer hunting with Youngest. He got to learn why it’s “hunting” not “bagging” because we came home with nothing. Actually, that’s not entirely true. We came home with a bunch of great...
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Lessons in Perseverance and Patience
Youngest and I went deer hunting again. When we tried about 2 weeks ago, the hunt was not successful. However, a lot of good things came from it. Best of all, it just meant we had to go out to the...
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This is how you keep kids safe around guns
The man said his family was eating at the Mexicasa Restaurant & Grill in Harrisburg Saturday night when the [5-year-old] girl went into the restroom. She came back out and told her mom that there...
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KR Training 2017-02-04 – Lone Star Medics Dynamic First Aid Quick hits
Caleb Causey of Lone Star Medics returned to KR Training on February 4, 2017 to put on his Dynamic First Aid course. I like to describe Dynamic First Aid as “First Aid 102”. That is, First Aid 101 is...
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Sometimes we discover and learn new things, which could be a totally new thing (disruptive, novel) or simply an iterative refinement to an existing thing (more likely). Either way, let’s try and see!...
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