The Crayon Letters
Code and CrayonsParenting for a world that is changing faster than childhood ever has. Reflections on books, play, calm tech, and raising thinkers in the AI era — without rushing or performing.
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I Forgot the Travel iPad. Then I Learned What My Child Actually Needed
I forgot the iPad at my friend’s place on the way back from Krakow. For many families this might sound like a small thing, but for a three-hour car journey with a young child, it felt like a plot twist written by someone who has never trave...
The Skill We Steal When We Keep Children Busy
The problem is not boredom
I don’t think the real problem is that children are not bored enough. That conversation has already been had. “Let children be bored” has become one of those parenting lines we all nod at, even while secretly...
I Could Teach Him to Write 8. I Am Choosing Not To.
The journal I did not plan
For the last few days, my son has been writing numbers everywhere.
On random paper. On the chalkboard. Sometimes even on the table, because of course the table also looked like a valid writing surface to him....
He Picked Up Wooden Letters and Spelled “Cat.” He Was Two.
The moment that changed how I saw reading
I remember the afternoon clearly. My son walked over to the wooden letter set on the floor, picked up a C, an A, and a T, placed them in a line, and looked up at me. “Cat,” he said. He was two y...
My Son Forgot the Rhythm of Home.
We just came back from 25 days in India.And the first week home nearly broke both of us.
Not travel-tired broken. Something deeper.
In India, my son was surrounded. Grandparents. Cousins. Family meals. Outings. And games — UNO, housie(Bin...
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Senior software engineer + mum. I write about books, play, screens, and small home systems that help children think, not just perform, in an AI-shaped world.
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