May 15th, 2013 at 12:00PM:
Where does this look like to you? I guessed central Mexico based on the Spanish signs and the mixture of dry soil and lush plants. Actually it's Brazil. The next view I looked at showed the characteristic onion domes of a Russian Orthodox Church. I guessed Russia and was correct.
This is an addictive new online game called Geoguessr. It gives you random Google Street View images and you have ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Geoguessr: The Internet's Newest Educational Time Waster
May 15th, 2013 at 12:00PM:
Where does this look like to you? I guessed central Mexico based on the Spanish signs and the mixture of dry soil and lush plants. Actually it's Brazil. The next view I looked at showed the characteristic onion domes of a Russian Orthodox Church. I guessed Russia and was correct.
This is an addictive new online game called Geoguessr. It gives you random Google Street View images and you have ...The Pacific Ocean: Is It Really True That One-Third Of Young Americans Can't Find It?
Apr 22nd, 2013 at 1:00PM: While reading fellow Gadling blogger Chris Owen's post about a Twitter mix-up between Chechnya and the Czech Republic, I was horrified to read that one-third of young Americans can't find the Pacific Ocean.
I was horrified, but not surprised. I taught for several years in a community college and no amount of public ignorance surprises me anymore – not after a student handed in a paper ...Teaching Geography With Google Maps
Jan 27th, 2013 at 12:00PM:
Travelers aren't born, they're raised.
Last week we talked about how to connect with your kids while you're away traveling. There are plenty of ways to get them interested in this great big world of ours while you're both at home too. One of the best and easiest ways to fire their imagination is with Google Maps.
Like many good ideas in our family, my seven-year-old son thought of it ...Parenting On The Road: How To Connect With Your Kids When You're Traveling
Jan 21st, 2013 at 10:00AM: Parenting is a tough job. It's even tougher if you have to travel a lot for work. Being away form home doesn't mean that you have to be away from your child's life, however. Here are eight tips on how to keep connected to the rugrats while you're on the road.
Skype. The greatest aid for the wandering parent ever invented. Why miss story time when you can pack a few of their favorite books and ...International Parenting: Avoiding Stereotypes With 'Rastamouse'
Aug 8th, 2012 at 9:00AM:
My son is having an international childhood. His father is a Canadian who lived for a long time in the U.S. and his mother a Spaniard who lived for a long time in England. We divide our time between Santander in Spain and Oxford in England.
One effect of this is that he has different associations for different places. England, for example, is a summer place, a small-town place where in the ...
My kid is more up-to-date on geography than Google Maps
Sep 23rd, 2011 at 5:00PM: "Where's South Sudan?" my five-year-old asked me.
Being my kid, he's big into maps. He has a map of Africa with all the flags on it hanging above his bed. Using it, he's been able to trace dad's adventures in Ethiopia and Somaliland. It's been marked up a bit since I got it for him more than a year ago. I had to draw the boundary of the unrecognized state of Somaliland on it, and we had to add ...Five ways to keep your kids from suffering museum fatigue
Aug 9th, 2011 at 9:30AM: "I want to go to the museum."
I love it when my son says that. A lot of kids never do. It's not surprising. Museum fatigue can set in pretty quickly for the little tykes unless you approach them right. Here are five tips for getting your children to actually want to go to museums. These tips may just keep you from strangling them as they whine in front of the Mona Lisa.
Start early
If you ...Watching bullfights with my five-year-old
Jun 9th, 2011 at 9:00AM:
One of the facts an immigrant has to accept is that your children aren't going to grow up in the same culture you did.
When I want to give my five-year-old son a treat, I take him to dinner at El Brillante here in Madrid. You can't get more traditional than El Brillante--an old-school cafeteria/bar that hasn't had a remodel since forever, with hefty waiters who scream your order back to the ...Exploring ancient Rome in Mérida, Spain
Dec 28th, 2010 at 2:30PM:
It's Christmas. What do you get an avid traveler who used to be an archaeologist?
For my wife the answer is obvious--a trip to a Roman city!
So here we are in Mérida, capital of the province of Extremadura in Spain, not far from the Portuguese border. In Roman times it was called Emerita Augusta and was capital of the province of Lusitania. This province took up most of the western ...Father saves daughter from zoo bear attack
Aug 20th, 2010 at 8:30AM: Warning to little girls everywhere--giant teddy bears may very well try to eat you.
Warning to parents everywhere--watch your kids when around dangerous wild animals.
A Dutch family was visiting a private zoo in Luenebach, Germany, when their three-year-old daughter became enchanted by an Asian black bear. While her parents' backs were turned she climbed the fence, which was only a meter ...Get tips on visiting Disney with a special needs child at Mouse-Aid
Jan 13th, 2010 at 3:30PM: Disneyland and Disney World are supposed to be the happiest places on Earth. Every child wants to go to this place of wonder and excitement, and special needs children are no exception. But for parents of these children, the thought of organizing a trip may seem like a far too difficult task. That's where the Mouse-Aid website comes in.
The website is not affiliated with Disney, but it is ...Travelers Tool Kit: Shae by Air, DVD for kids about air travel
Jun 16th, 2009 at 9:30AM: This week I lent a friend of mine two large suitcases with wheels, a carry-on sized bag with wheels and the DVD, Shae by Air: Every Child can Be a Good Little Traveler. She was heading off to Bolivia on her own with her three children, ages 7, 4 and 2.
The more we talked about air travel with kids, the more I remembered the DVD. The DVD is geared towards young children who have not flown before, ...Crazy Asian mother: Stereotype from the kid's perspective
Sep 9th, 2008 at 12:30PM: Aaron's post this morning with his musings about positive stereotypes reminded me of one of my absolute FAVORITE YouTube videos, "Crazy Asian Mother." It is a hoot.
Two high school age boys role play what happens when the mother looks over her son's report card. Listen for the list of classes and the humorous jab at the parenting skills of white American parents. Very funny and illustrates other ...
Latest accident at Six Flags is another safety reminder
Jun 29th, 2008 at 1:40AM: Perhaps it's the word amusement that helps make amusement park accidents seem so devastating. The latest accident I heard about on the news tonight is too awful to imagine and is a reminder to go over safety lessons with teens over and over and over again.
As a parent of a teen, I know that the diatribe of safety lessons may not actually keep my daughter that much safer, but what else is a ...
