July 27, 2026

Category: Lils

A Mind Wide Open, Lils, Playing

This Year

So much has happened in the last year, and I’ve not chosen to give much focus to writing here, but rather have kept a video and image log. I will begin creating posts from these as the demand for my arms, and one handed typing decreases in the coming months. Here’s a quick blurb from […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Astronomy, Beautiful Curiosity, Broadening of Mind, CDE Standards Reference, Construction, Context Comprehension, Creative Solution Generation, Engineering, How We Learn Best, Knowledge Base Expansion, Language, Language Development, Lils, Literacy, Movement & Coordination, Pattern Recognition, Physics, Playing, Questions from Lily's Brain

Grandparents, Gravity, Goodies, and Dessine

Will complete this entry when I have the mind to get all the images together.   Tinker Crate with Grandpa – they did the fiber optics constellations and the defy gravity game Grandpa tuned the piano and Lily has become fascinated with not only playing but watching the mechanics. Today she stated she’s going to […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Artistry, Broadening of Mind, Confidence, Developing Self, Emotional Awareness & Maturing, Lils, Self Awareness, Self Esteem, Self Management

The 5 Emotions, So Far….

In wrapping up the depression that set in for Lily during the month of February, which was relieved by a bottle of oils (empowering her to provide herself a calming stimulant), Russ and I sorting through some rather tough stuff, some candid discussions with her about sympathetic symptoms and experiences – and differentiation between her […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Data Input Skills, Developing Self, Fine Motor Skills, Investing Energy - Uninstant Gratification, Lils

Let the Complaining Begin…

I’ve encouraged Lily to work on typing skills… We are presently going through this program: hhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr#zgkpn39 She’s bored. I described my 8th grade Keyboarding class, 1st period, already knowing how to type, with Mr. DRONE-n-SLEEP. Literally, he’d tell us to sit, cover our hands, flip to page, get through page, and then he’d sit and drink […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, Biology, Broadening of Mind, Bugz & Her Explorations, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Ecology, Forming Complex Questions, Lils, Physics, Science Discoveries

Cloud Seeding

We have begun our day with a few subjects, ranging from the concept of the kobayashi maru exercise and politics, to the value of independent thought and questioning, to challenging status quo and “how we’ve always done it/thought about it”, to cloud seeding. Warm seeding Cold seeding The question we now have is, if the water […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Lils, Playing

Programming, Continued

Lils is using Khan to learn Javascript. She wants to make a mod for Minecraft that includes her favorite little green alien, Om Nom. We’ve worked on this for a couple days now, and she’s decided to pull out her Chromebook and work on programming and creating independently. First are some shots of what she […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Abstract Comprehension, Bugz & Her Explorations, Calculating with Knowns to Find Unknown, CDE Standards Reference, Culture Appreciation, Decimal, Economics: Global, Equivalents, Fraction, Geography, How We Learn Best, Lils, Math Discoveries, Pattern Recognition, Percentage, Playing, Political Science, Questions from Lily's Brain, Reasoning

Algeria, Texas, Scale, Ratio, and the United States-Faster

Lils is diving into the Stack the Countries game, which not only focuses on global location/geogrpahy, but also political facts, information, languages, and customs. For every 8 or so questions she answers accurately, she is awarded another country across the globe. So far, she has about 20 countries, giving her at least one within every continent. […]

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