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Has some inappropriate language, but a great blog post about being a girl, and having people say things like, "You throw like a girl" etc. 

Former Red Sox pitching ace Curt Schilling is striking back at Internet trolls who attacked his daughter online with real-world consequences. Last week, Schilling tweeted a congratulations to his daughter Gabby for being accepted into a college softball program at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island.

This past week, my first-born became legal. Not to drive, vote or drink, though; that comes later. My son turned 13 years old, making him eligible under terms of service to have his own social media account. That isn't to say he hasn't been on those sites for years, though. His social media cred is older than our daughter, who turns four in a couple months. He has had moments where he used Facebook too much, only to self-censor like a boss when he found it was cutting into his reading time. These days, his activity is largely limited to liking Doctor Who content on my geeky Pinterest board and collaborating with peers on Google (despite his original account there being deleted due to age restrictions). He has never had much interest in tweeting, but he got a video camera yesterday that may signal the beginning of a new vlog.

Sarah Kay gave a keynote at the IB Asia Pacific conference in 2012. One of her main questions to us was "how will you react when you encounter a breakthrough?"

An interesting tale of homework in Middle school

Article that would be the perfect complement to kids reading "The Breadwinner" by Deborah Ellis -- re girls disguising themselves as boys in Aghanistan