I’m not a person with any kind of professional authority in the area of special ed. I’m an educator, but not a traditional one; I teach foreigners English abroad, so I have little contact with special education students. Most of my knowledge I have about this I got from a course on special education taken [...]

Ways of Utilizing Piggy Bank Time
Once piggy bank time has been defined and located, it’s time to smash that piggy open! These are the main ways I take advantage of my piggy bank time:

MP3 player and podcasts - This is the silver bullet of piggy bank time. I have an iPod shuffle and it is [...]

Piggy Bank Time is Everywhere
The first step to using piggy bank time is finding it. Think of it as rummaging between the coach cushions and finding money you didn’t know you were quite literally sitting on.
Here’s some examples from a quasi-typical day in my life:

waiting in line at the supermarket, post office, bail bond agent’s, [...]

Piggy Bank Time is a concept coined by Vera Birkenbihl, a renown brain researcher, in her audio series Memory Optimizer. In short, piggy bank time is the moments you have throughout your day and week which are unharnessed but could be utilized to improve your memory… but not only.
What’s so good about Piggy Bank Time?
Have [...]

As a father-to-be, I’ve been scouring the internet for useful resources that will help me with the very basics of parenthood.
This is perhaps one of the best resources I’ve found yet: Project DAD.
Project DAD is an initiative funded by the European Union that seeks to provide e-learning resources for fathers and fathers-to-be. It’s available in [...]

I saw this post and I just had to comment on it.
In short, DaMomma is in a cafe and watches a mother handle her children very roughly.  She couldn’t take it anymore so stood up, walked over and talked with the lady and her children. If you want to know what she said, read the [...]

Intro
This is the first in what I hope will be an on-going series about how to maximize our efficiency as parents. I know what you’re thinking, “what on Earth does that even mean?”
Look at it this way: in the recent years there has been almost an explosion of personal productivity products onto the market. It [...]

I wanted to thank some blogs and podcasts where LostParentDiary has been mentioned!
Working Dad: An Unauthorized Guide to Parenting - Thanks to Paul Nyhan for mentioning my post “dad = persona non grata in delivery room” on his blog.
gamingwithbaby.com: all your diapers are belong to us - I was pleasantly surprised by the completely unsolicited [...]

A few weeks back, The Word Nerds, one of the first podcasts I ever started to listen to, did a great episode on baby talk. It was also their 100th episode and 2 year anniversary, congrats guys!
In the podcast, Howard and Dave define baby talk as a natural adjustment we make when speaking to those [...]

10 Ways to Save Your Memories

Get a Mac
Buy an external hard drive
Think on multiple fronts
Start a blog
YouTube
Email your baby
Time capsule
Lists
Arts and crafts
Multimedia software

Wow! 5 months in already! It seemed like only a few weeks ago K Honey showed me the little lines on the pregnancy test that sparked the greatest change in my life.
My newest [...]