I’m starting this blog as a way to develop my ideas about why and how parents should support their children’s deep and passionate interests in nature, science, technology, or whatever else catches their fancy. If you’ve been wondering about why your child has developed an almost obsessive interest in dinosaurs, rocks, trains, Pokemon, or vacuum cleaners — and what to do about it — then this may be the blog for you!
This blog is an adjunct to my existing website, SaltTheSandbox.org, which describes some of the interests my children, Ethan and Aaron, have gone through as they’ve grown, and how my wife, Gail, and I supported them. I’m planning a bunch of posts on a range of topics related to children’s interests, including research and book reviews, interviews, thought pieces, and stories about how families — including ours — have supported their children’s passionate interests.
First, a word about the organization of this blog. Like all blogs, posts here in the center of the page will be sequenced in reverse chronological order (most recent at the top). However, my experience with our Neighborhood Nature blog leads me to suspect that most folks will discover any given post weeks or months after it was written. So, I’ve tried to organize the sidebars to the left more like standard navigation menus, based more on content and less on when posts were written. (However, given my limited Web development skills, I’ve had to use blog tools to construct the menus, so some of the menu sections will have to develop over time, as I add posts in particular categories with specific tags.)
That’s it for now. I hope you find my later posts enjoyable and/or useful!
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