Our Happy Happas is a new blog that chronicles the thoughts of a highly educated stay at home mom and her highly educated husband about raising and educating their two little girls as the raise and educate their two little girls. I know them both, have talked to them about what they are doing and how they are doing it. The big cultural influences in the family are Korean and Midwestern (Ohio and Chicago).
The thing I like about the conversations I have had with them is that they are not only very thoughtful, they are balanced. It seems like the parents of high performance children in American society today want to make the children’s education and performance more about the parents than the children. The writers of the Our Happy Happas blog do not have that problem. They seem to work equally hard on the joy of their children as in their education. They have a few good posts up already on the speed at which children learn compared to adults and handmade Korean language flashcards. The flash cards give a good taste about how they approach the education task. I am looking forward to making this a daily blog stop.