2026-05-18
I was grabbing his failures before he could feel them
7:14 AM. Backpack on, homework still on the counter. Almost said 'grab it' — caught myself. Productive failure (Kapur 2008) and the 3-second pause we're trying at home.
2026-05-11
Remembering to remember
Wrote a to-do list for the kid. The kid forgets to look at the list. A note on workplace schedulers, presupposition questions, and working memory research — and what's actually going on with kid memory.
2026-05-08
"Did it" and "done" are not the same thing
'Brush your teeth' — 'I did it' — 'you're literally just holding the toothbrush in your mouth.' The kid's 'I did it' and the parent's 'done' are different things. Same structure as a requirements-vs-implementation gap at work.