Posts by Thalia the Muse

Interesting -- she taught herself to knit last fall (although she claims crochet is waaay too hard, which I think is crazy because clearly crochet is far easier than knitting to all right-thinking people, because it's easier for me...

My DD is ten and in a fifth-grade GATE class. While she is not crazy-gifted in math and science the way some of her classmates are, she's good enough that she has no problem keeping up with the class math work and mastering new...

Another vote for the Carus magazines -- you really can't go wrong with them! Kiki is excellent but definitely more "tween focused," with lots of fashion coverage (not body-shaming/skanky/heavily consumerist like most fashion mags,...

I think there are many educational aspects to Halloween -- education is more than math worksheets. It's a good opportunity to talk about seasons and harvest festivals and what other cultures do to celebrate harvest time and the ending...

She's EIGHT and she made those? They're fantastic!

I just learned how to crochet in the last month or so! I used a couple of books that had good detailed instructions and diagrams (Teach Yourself Visually: Crochet and Stitch n Bitch The Happy Hooker), but it sounds like that's not your...

I'm a little late to the party, but do you want to sew (per your post) or cross-stitch (per your title)?   Cross-stitch suppliers:   123stitch.com (I order from them a lot and highly recomend -- great...

I think that most four-year-olds would know that they SHOULDN'T do that -- but an awful lot of them don't have enough impulse control to help themselves. I don't think that's beyond the range of normal four-year-old behavior at...

I think I'd stick to picture books for a while -- many of them are very gentle, and if the art is good enough they don't feel babyish at all. My daughter loved more sophisticated picture books well into elementary school. She's...

This is an old thread, but I have some suggestions! I loved that stuff myself, so I read a LOT of scary books.   Books:   Jane-Emily, Patricia Clapp Down a Dark Hallway, Lois Duncan (this is not one of her teen...