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Like stars on earth — every child is special

Abe did fine in last weekend’s chess tournament: 2010 Illinois All Grade Championship, he won four games against four lower rated players, lost one game to a higher rated player. In the game he lost, a delicate endgame was reached and both players played well and determined, as some observers told me. The game was [...]

Monday November 15th, 2010 in , chess, family, library, loss, love, misunderstand, movie, parents, perseverance, teacher, together | 4 Comments »

Roger Federer and his parents

I read Anxiety On The Grass from New Yorker (issue of June 28, 2010). The article talked about Roger Federer: Unlike Agassi and countless other tennis prodigies, Federer never had to deal with pressure from an ambitious parent…His Swiss-born father… and his mother, who is South African, …played recreational tennis at the firm’s small club [...]

Thursday July 1st, 2010 in , Andre Agassi, coach, hard working, house, library, parents, pressure, prodigy, push, Roger Federer, soccer, tennis | No Comments »

D is for David

Every time Abe and I go to pick up David from his daycare center, David is always very happy, and busy with something, either running in the gym, solving a puzzle or reading a book with one of his teachers. Once seeing me, he will run toward me and calling along the way “D-a-d-d-y!” Sometimes, [...]

Wednesday January 20th, 2010 in , brother, concert, letter, library, name, parents, sibling, toddler | No Comments »

Do foreign language skills really help people to be smart?

Whenever we visit the local library, David, my younger son always loves to do the check-out using the auto-check-out machine. Since he is a toddler and not tall enough to reach the scan platform, he has to step on his toes and try hard, if his brother helps him, David will scream, he wants to [...]

Wednesday January 6th, 2010 in , brother, chess, foreign language, kid, library, prodigy, smart | 2 Comments »

Garrison Keillor: Being a dad

I started to be a fan of Garrison Keillor about eight years ago. Every weekend, I would eager to hear his A Prairie Home Companion on the radio. I borrowed all his stuff from the local library: cassettes, CDs, DVDs and books. Enjoy the following monologue I found from YouTube. Being a Dad is full [...]

Thursday December 3rd, 2009 in , A Prairie Home Companion, dad, Garrison Keilor, library, monologue, YouTube | No Comments »

Abe and me, the journey started

About three years ago, once I was roaming in the local library, I found the library would have a class named something like “Chess for Beginners”. So I brought Abe to the class; several kids showed up, along with their parents. The class was very basic, covering how to set the board and how to [...]

Sunday November 8th, 2009 in , A Parent's Guide to chess, book, chess, chess for Dummies, chess master, class, dad, Dan Heisman, learn, library, parenting, parents, read, scholastic | 1 Comment »

My son’s first chess book and the chess book he spent most time on so far

I bought my son the first chess book “Learn Chess Tactics” by John Nunn last Christmas, he like it very much. Then I bought him a second book by John Nunn “Understanding Chess Move by Move“. Now he seldom read the first book, but he kept reading the latter one every now and then even [...]

Tuesday October 27th, 2009 in , book, chess, first, John nunn, kid, library, read, Understanding Chess Move by Move | No Comments »