Fisher Price Launches iPhone Apps For 2-Year-Olds. Okay.. 2 – 5 year old’s. Read news here..

Cool?
Crazy?
We are just getting old?

Are you what your blog says you are? I stumbled upon this blog personality tool. Just enter your blog url, the tool scans through the text, and based on keywords, idioms, phrases used, defines the personality of the blog. I wonder if we really are what our blog projects we are. The image above is the blog personality of this blog. Another blog I maintain which falls under the media initiative of our company says this about me.

Funny, both written by the same person, both having the same context as far as content. One has abundance of impulsive emotions filled post, other has thought out targeted posts. Surprisingly, both the personality descriptions fit me. What we choose to expose of ourselves is what we are perceived as.


This company Typealyzer has comes up with a personality types tool for blogs, which is derived from the Myers-Briggs model for looking at how people(via blog) look at the world and make decisions.

Go here, enter blog url to find out what your blog says about you. Enjoy!


While we are at it, we had a blast trying this in the blogosphere couple of years back. A tool using image/face recognition technology to tell you which celebrity you look like. Enjoy Again and have a terrific Thursday!

My mam told.. My teacher told..

I am forced to hear this statement every so often in various tones, context and decibel levels that it has now become synonymous with noise. D considers her mother, that is me , the best in the whole world, just like any other kid. But when it comes to learning, her teacher takes the sweet spot. I am not complaining, but there are times I want to strangle her to accept that I, your mother, knows too!!! At times, she has even asked me to “ask some teacher in google” when not convinced with my explanation, but that is fodder for another post.

This conversation with D yesterday reached new heights!

 

D: Mumma, I would be very happy if you come to my school as a teacher.
Me: Huh? Ok.. But I am a Computer Engineer. And I am not sure if I will like teaching more than computer related work.
D: You are becoming smart by being a computer engineer?
Me: hmm.. I guess so.
D: After you work as a computer engineer for million years and become smart, then only you can become a teacher?
Me: HUH??????????

Any aspiring teachers out there? This is enough motivation??

 

At home turf, we are trying supplement schooling. About an hour everyday(ok.. most days. Ok Ok.. < 10 days in the past month) is set aside for exploration/creation/innovation/discovery. The girls love it. Few days back D had asked why we have started doing this? Maybe because I start drumming "fun time.. fun time.. join in or you'll miss it.. ". As a matter of fact, I told her to think of this as a kind of school, idea is to have fun, do something together as a family, create and explore.

Don't know what the 5 year old had been thinking all night, maybe the above conversation flashed in and she considers me a "teacher" and "smart" now. Instead of the typical "My teacher told.." I got to hear "You also know because you are now a teacher"..

Good progress, totally worth an hour a day! What say?

This piece of news just blew me off.

Read the complete news here


Call me old school and old! As I completely fail to understand the Farmville / Fishville addiction and the joy one derives from creating a virtual farm. Let alone virtual currencies. I first came to know of Farmville when my 14 year old screamed in excitement during one of his 30 minutes restricted online time – I got a pig! I got a pig! Yes! Yes! Yes! Apparently, someone had gifted him a pig and it is oh so expensive! This kid would give up anything for 15 minutes of Farmville. They even make and break real life friends depending on their interaction in the virtual world aka gifts sent in this case.

Farmville is just a game after all, but the addiction is real. The news above where the couple starve their 3 month old kid over raising a virtual kid is on the extreme. Hope this dies as a one off case.