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Women, Confidence & Trying to Father A Daughter

carrying on with the vulnerability theme, I'm going to talk about some of the challenges that I perceive to exist around being a woman, and get into some of my parenting inadequacies. I am not a woman, and I am no doubt coloring outside my lines here, but,

"The Talk" With My Son

He is thirteen and thinks he's seventeen. Everything went from zero to sixty about a month ago when school let out for the summer. I feel like he was a little boy on the last day of school, then a week into summer break, he became a teenager;

jud@techstars.com

I'm getting back into the mix. It's been a creative, fun, enlightening, educational, expanding, and relaxing couple of years "off," but I want to re-engage with something operational again; I've joined Techstars [http://www.techstars.com/] as its CTO. I'm

Parenting, "the talk," and a Request.

A couple of days ago I tweeted about "the talk" [https://twitter.com/jvaleski/status/663870880448012288] I had with my 10-yr-old daughter, and it received an intense amount of attention. The tweet was actually about "the network," as opposed to sex, which everyone undoubtedly assumed it

Kids And The Network; A Progression

It's been awhile since I've written about my kiddos (boy, 13. daughter, 10) and their relationship with, and use of, the Network. Anecdotal Stuff * If I ever utter the word "ethernet cable" my son rolls his eyes. My daughter does nothing because she doesn&

Existential Week

Existential Week

We're near the end of Boulder's annual cloudy week. It's a nice change of pace from the constant sunshine, but it always produces an odd lens through which life gets considered. I'm looking forward to some sunshine; go away clouds! Over the

Colorado, Legalized Cannabis, and Parenting

It's been a few years now since Colorado legalized recreational cannabis growing/use. I have friends and relatives in States/Countries that haven't legalized it yet, and I get questions from time to time from them about what life is like here given that it'

My Daughter's First Software Creation

My Daughter's First Software Creation

This weekend my eight-year-old daughter built her first program using an iOS app called Hopscotch [https://www.gethopscotch.com/] which uses the Hopscotch programming language (kind of like Scratch). It's not a static or compiled language like C or Java (her dad's background :) ), but, variables (values)

big backups

photo, music, and video libraries can get very big (in my personal scenario, photos alone push 1TB). they're also the kinds of libraries of content you never want to lose. they tend to contain content that took a long time to produce, was expensive to obtain (music), or

Day In Pictures; Last Tuesday

Day In Pictures; Last Tuesday

Some last minute homework before heading off to school.First meet of the day; Jim Davidson. My old boss/mentor at AOL. Remains in my "top 3" list of people who have had the most impact on my life.Couple's therapy with Bruce Tift [https://www.

Day In Pictures: Another Tuesday!?!

Day In Pictures: Another Tuesday!?!

For some reason these apparently happen on Tuesdays. I thought they were random.? Getting ready for school with my little pea.My son, "ready" for school early. He was reading "Java for Dummies" with his spare time this morning.Mark crushing "drop-off" at school.

Calwood Parent Volunteering Experience

Calwood Parent Volunteering Experience

Long View LookoutI just got back from a two-night trip to Calwood [http://www.calwood.org/] just outside Boulder, CO. I was a Parent Volunteer for our 5th grade classes' adventure. It was the first time I'd really volunteered for something of this magnitude with the kiddos.

Connection, My Daughter, and a Subway

Connection, My Daughter, and a Subway

Today I had one of those moments as a parent where something profound comes over you. I don't know about you, but, I'm the kind of parent that doesn't have this happen too often. I'm amazed by my children all the time,

Parenting & Technology Update

It's been awhile since my last update on raising kids in today's tech heavy world. Minecraft Total kid-world domination. The XBox is a distant memory and rarely used anymore by my 10 yr. old son. For at least the past year or so this is the

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

We've all heard this adage a million times. I've been saying it at home, and at work, a bit over the past few months. My son is a decent carbon copy of me (poor kid!), and if you know me, I'm generally a man

Kids & Jay Walking

Kids & Jay Walking

I just got back from Tokyo, Japan where walk/stop signals on the streets are strictly adhered to. That fact sparked up the age-old conversation here in the US around adherence to these signals while raising kids. As parents, do we adhere to the letter of the law all the

The Future: My Kids & Computers

We have a 5 yr. old girl & an 8 yr. old boy. They've grown up with a lot of technology around the house. Some notes on how they've engaged. We're an Apple/Tivo house; iOS/OSX/*nix only. Our Son - lives on

Ambient Intimacy: Humans & Machines

Ambient Intimacy: Humans & Machines

I used to scoff every time I'd see a group of kids walking down the street talking/texting on their mobiles. How could they consider themselves friends when they're not even communicating with each other!?! However, I've found that my own addiction (as well

Like Father, Like Son

Like Father, Like Son

Ahhh parenting. Earlier this evening my wife and I returned from our seven-year-old's first parent-teacher conference as a first grader. We'd done a few when he was in kindergarten, but those don't really count as they're just too young to derive much