2026-06-08
TDD parenting — the workbook was running a test suite on us the whole time
Three red X's stacked on a math sheet used to send me into hint-mode. Then it clicked — workbooks are basically a test suite. Wrong answers aren't bad. They're the point. TDD parenting, or Failure-Confirmation-Driven Parenting (engineer-dad frameworks series, Part 2).
2026-06-07
Engineer dad parenting: applying TDD, BDD and DDD to raising kids (series intro)
Software has too many *-Driven Developments. But every framework is a can of inherited wisdom, and leaning on one usually saves rework. I'm going to try the same trick on parenting — TDD, BDD, DDD, XP, all retranslated for raising my kids.
2026-05-08
My kid says "I did it" when he didn't — "did it" and "done" are different things
'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.