5 Tips for Raising Your Girl Geek (via Wired)
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terrikoAround grade 3, I started reading with a vengeance. No book in the house, no matter how technical, was exempt from my curious gaze. I can't say I was able to make much headway into the biology textbooks found in my basement (at least not without help from my parents!), but I do remember reading a bunch of the "raising your gifted child" books my mom got out of the library when I was a bit older.
These books contained useful advice along the lines of, "try not to make your kid feel like a freak" which probably should have been supplemented with, "so don't leave this book lying around where she's going to read it." Let's just say it was a surprisingly educational experience, and my parents probably expected I'd read them.
Anyhow... I digress. When I saw a link to Wired's "5 Tips for Raising Your Girl Geek" (via @LadyRosePixie) I was half expecting a lot of cringe-worthy "try not to make your kid feel like a freak" and I admit, they're there. Or perhaps they're more like "As a geek, you may not notice your daughter's a freakish social outcast..." But the recommendations on making her feel less so are pretty decent, and the article itself is fun and has some good links to other female geeks in history, literature, and pop culture. So that's pretty fun.
But I have to admit, even if it is good advice, my inner 10 year old still thinks such parenting advice is both hilarious and mildly insulting. Be warned if your daughter may be reading this!
These books contained useful advice along the lines of, "try not to make your kid feel like a freak" which probably should have been supplemented with, "so don't leave this book lying around where she's going to read it." Let's just say it was a surprisingly educational experience, and my parents probably expected I'd read them.
Anyhow... I digress. When I saw a link to Wired's "5 Tips for Raising Your Girl Geek" (via @LadyRosePixie) I was half expecting a lot of cringe-worthy "try not to make your kid feel like a freak" and I admit, they're there. Or perhaps they're more like "As a geek, you may not notice your daughter's a freakish social outcast..." But the recommendations on making her feel less so are pretty decent, and the article itself is fun and has some good links to other female geeks in history, literature, and pop culture. So that's pretty fun.
But I have to admit, even if it is good advice, my inner 10 year old still thinks such parenting advice is both hilarious and mildly insulting. Be warned if your daughter may be reading this!