![]() I'm a long time reader (since ParentCenter) and huge fan of your work (own your book and subscribe and Family Fun because of you!) but this is my first time leaving a comment. If there's still money left after that, we'll do it again. I am going to pick three winners at random and send them the books they picked. This is a simple give-away: leave the name of the one book you most want in the comments (comment only once, please). ![]() ![]() (Except you, with all the exercise bands: they told me your name. I love, love, love that they show me all that! Don't worry, though. Who is going to Europe and bought all those travel guides? Who bought Footloose the 25th Anniversary Edition? It comes in the form of store credit-so let's use it! But first, a few questions. To recap: when I recommend books here, and you click the links and go to amazon, they give me a small percentage of the money you spend on that visit, regardless of what you buy. The smell of the butter browning will make everyone in your whole zip code salivate.Īnd that yummy, yummy coconut chicken soup you order at the Thai restaurant you like? You can make it yourself and it's delicious.īut are you here for the next give-away? Of course. There is a super-spring recipe for asparagus that is almost literally irresistible. Meanwhile (natch) I've been cooking up a storm. "You should totally pitch this to the magazine!" she said, and I just might.)Ĭraney, too, is growing-though he doesn't seem to realize.Īnd Ben! His hands have gotten so big, he keeps- yowch!-poking his thumb through his ear. "A frog pond with lily pads!" 2 boxes of lime Jell-o, 1 bag of gummy frogs, and 1 flower candy mold later: voila. ("I know what kind of cake I want this year!" she announced months ago. Have fun, sweetie! Use the generic brand of Monistat! Text me! Yet we all know that it is possible to raise a child well.Besides the incredible nick-of-time arrival of spring-birdsong, twilit dinners, crocuses, bare-legged children, heaven-lots of other stuff has been happening around here.īirdy, for example, is heading off to college. Indeed, the next child may require an entirely different approach from the previous one.Īnd this brings up another feature of complex problems: their outcomes remain highly uncertain. Expertise is valuable but most certainly not sufficient. Although raising one child may provide experience, it does not guarantee success with the next child. But not so with raising a child, Zimmerman and Glouberman point out. Once you learn how to send a rocket to the moon, you can repeat the process with other rockets and perfect it. Timing and coordination become serious concerns.Ĭomplex problems are ones like raising a child. ![]() Success frequently requires multiple people, often multiple teams, and specialized expertise. They can sometimes be broken down into a series of simple problems. But once these are mastered, following the recipe brings a high likelihood of success.Ĭomplicated problems are ones like sending a rocket to the moon. Sometimes there are a few basic techniques to learn. Simple problems, they note, are ones like baking a cake from a mix. Brenda Zimmerman and Sholom Glouberman have proposed a distinction among three different kinds of problems in the world: the simple, the complicated, and the complex.
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