Fun Family Time At The Children’s Museum

ByTim Nolte January 21, 2017January 21, 2017

Playing With Dinosaurs at the Museum — Jacob Playing With Dinosaurs – Grand Rapids Children’s Museum

I love that our family has a membership to the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum. We can spend hours their with the kids. We audio hey the benefit of their exchange program where our membership gets us into additional places like the Grand Rapids Public Museum and John Ball Zoo. I highly recommend considering a membership of you can afford it.

Litebrite Legos at the Museum — Kids Playing With The Litebrite Legos – Grand Rapids Children’s Museum

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New Well in Waterloo, Traveling to Freetown

ByTim Nolte May 18, 2018May 18, 2018

Today was pretty easy-going as we packed up at the hotel in Makeni to head to Waterloo & Freetown, making the first step towards the trek home. We had a nice long ride to Waterloo where we were going to see some of the final drilling stages of a new well. The well was being put in right near a school in a very poor area of Waterloo. Since it was near a school, and want looked like a community “park” there were a lot of kids around. I think there were a lot of people in general because of watching the well drilling. We’re there for about 3.5 hours before we started to see some water flowing from the well. They eventually got the…

Family / Featured / Kids / Parenting

A Window Into Our Family’s World

ByTim Nolte September 13, 2018September 13, 2018

Despite her disability she is smart, creative, and even has a sense of humor that our family is blessed to enjoy. #Autism #ASD This mother’s post is almost spot on what our family experiences on a regular basis. My wife shared it recently. What It’s Like Parenting A Child With An Invisible Disability

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Sprinkles With Mom

ByTim Nolte April 29, 2017

Enjoying a donut with Mom before she leaves.

Notes

WordCamp GR 2017 – Elementary, My Dear Coder – Nicole Paschen Caylor

ByTim Nolte August 26, 2017August 26, 2017

Nicole Paschen Caylor – https://github.com/nicolepaschen Code.org The Hour of Code Kodable – paid program, self-guided game Tynker – tynker.com Code Spark Academy Computer Science Curriculum Uses drag-n-drop code blocks Points out more efficient ways of accomplishing task ScratchJr – found on PBS Kids as well(provides more familiar characters) Scratch – for older kids Tips for Success Site with your child Explain things to your child as you go along Resources: Lego Mindstorms Hello World – book on Python programming CS Unplugged – free, downloadable, offline, ages 9+ Grand Valley State University, Pew Campus, Grand Rapids, MI

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Fun Day With The Kids And Family

ByTim Nolte April 7, 2018April 7, 2018

We had a fun day with the kids starting off with a birdhouse building project at Home Depot. The kids didn’t want to go but in the end they had a lot of fun. On our way home from birdhouse building we stopped to checkout the animals at PetSmart. The kida of course wanted to get more pets but we aren’t ready to go down that road just yet. We already have a cat that they have a hard time with. The afternoon was filled with festivities celebrating Jacob’s Birthday. He was so happy to have family come adn especially his school friend. Us adults enjoyed some adult conversations for a change as well. Pokemon was the highlight of Jacob’s party.

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Devotions for Sacred Parenting – Day 7: A Season of Sacrifice

ByTim Nolte October 4, 2018October 4, 2018

“Our kids, by their existence, make a legitimate spiritual claim on our time, our money, and our focus.” – Devotions for Sacred Parenting by Gary L. Thomas I was challenged today in how I approach being a Dad. Too often I choose to focus on everything but my kids. Our time is too short with our kids, and there will be years ahead when we will have all kinds of time to pursue other things. I will say that this is one of the reasons I wake up at 4am some days to get a run in as I make an effort to not let my running negatively impact my family. #parenting #sacrifice #responsibility