The best Big Potato board games to play with family groups of mixed ages are Herd Mentality (you can technically kind of adapt it to pre-writers as well) and The Chameleon.
If you live in Australia, and are wondering to yourself “should I send my kid to a public or private school” – this collection of long-range studies (PDF link) demonstrates that when you adjust for socio-economic background, there are no significant differences in results for students of public or private schools.
Maybe you are wondering about “the decline of literacy and what might happen to politics once our minds are no longer intimately structured by the written word.”
Having a party? Set out a still-life and some watercolours, or play a homemade Charades style game called Fishbowl.
Investigate your local area until you know the answers to every question on a bioregional quiz.
Modern dictionaries are “all a chore to read. There’s no play, no delight in the language. The definitions are these desiccated little husks of technocratic meaningese, as if a word were no more than its coordinates in semantic space.” What you should use instead is the 1913 Webster, which you can access via this website.
Do you enjoy making silly websites for jokes with mates? Carrd is an easy way to do that.
Kinship terms (words for parents) are the easiest sounds for babies to make and thus parents adopt them across the world.
o frabjous day! 