{"id":546,"date":"2006-05-15T22:58:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T02:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/15\/raising-my-kid-with-science\/"},"modified":"2009-07-30T19:57:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T23:57:34","slug":"raising-my-kid-with-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/15\/raising-my-kid-with-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising My Kid With Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0152017720\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/HLIC\/c10e2439ee0c06f0ef7f0f638146b73a.jpg\" alt=\"Family Tree\" class=\"alignright\"\/><\/a>A while back <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/\">Paul Myers<\/a> made a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2006\/02\/an_updated_book_list_for_evolu.php\">list of books for evolutionists<\/a>. The list included a number of items &#8220;for the kids&#8221;. I really liked the idea of starting Sarah&#8217;s science education early&#8211;why not learn about science along with math and vocabulary, etc&#8211;so I decided to order some of these books &#8220;sometime&#8221;. (I figured the odds of them being in stock at any local store was pretty low.)<\/p>\n<p>However, while making one of my regular passes through the stock at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcloseouts.com\">Bookcloseouts.com<\/a> (that site is responsible for a tremendous number of books arriving in this house over the past few years&#8211;Trish is threatening to have a lawyer send them a stern note forbidding them to do any more business with me) I noticed that they had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcloseouts.com\/default.asp?Ntk1=Default&#038;Ntt1=family+tree&#038;Ntx1=matchall&#038;Nsl=0&#038;Ix=1&#038;R=0152017720B&#038;Rt=127&#038;Nty1=1\">one of the books<\/a> for a ridiculously low price, so I added it to my order.<\/p>\n<p>The book is pictured over on the right. It arrived today along with a bunch of other stuff (most exciting for me: two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcloseouts.com\/default.asp?Ntk1=Default&#038;Ntt1=elizabeth+knox&#038;Ntx1=matchall&#038;Nsl=0&#038;Ix=0&#038;R=0345450523B&#038;Rt=3&#038;Nty1=1\">Elizabeth<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcloseouts.com\/default.asp?Ntk1=Default&#038;Ntt1=elizabeth+knox&#038;Ntx1=matchall&#038;Nsl=0&#038;Ix=2&#038;R=0374114056B&#038;Rt=3&#038;Nty1=1\">Knox<\/a> books!) and Sarah and I read it tonight.<\/p>\n<p>After this, and our recent visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/museum.gov.ns.ca\/mnh\/\">Museum of Natural History<\/a>, I&#8217;m getting quite excited about incorporating science stuff into Sarah&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>Can you still buy chemistry sets?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">A while back Paul Myers made a list of books for evolutionists. The list included a number of items &#8220;for the kids&#8221;. I really liked the idea of starting Sarah&#8217;s science education early&#8211;why not learn about science along with math and vocabulary, etc&#8211;so I decided to order some of these books &#8220;sometime&#8221;. (I figured the odds of them being in&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/15\/raising-my-kid-with-science\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-storytime","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-8O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2848,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/2848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}