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    From Family Room Forts to Big City Skyscrapers  … Crazy Forts is a Great Choice to Encourage Design
    Darryl Silva
    • Nov 24, 2018
    • 2 min

    From Family Room Forts to Big City Skyscrapers  … Crazy Forts is a Great Choice to Encourage Design

    From Family Room Forts to Big City Skyscrapers … Crazy Forts is a Great Choice to Encourage Design and Building Here’s a paid DIY STEM activity that’s tons of fun and engages kids in engineering thinking and design. At 22 / 25 points, the rating is Buy IT or Borrow It! Crazy Forts is a great idea for a present for any occasion. You can add on components so the building creativity is almost endless. Great activity to build confidence and curiosity as a lot of trial and error.
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    Calculated Moves a Dad Can Make to Support his Daughter … Building Curiosity & Confidence by Pl
    Darryl Silva
    • Nov 24, 2018
    • 3 min

    Calculated Moves a Dad Can Make to Support his Daughter … Building Curiosity & Confidence by Pl

    Calculated Moves a Dad Can Make to Support his Daughter … Building Curiosity & Confidence by Playing Chess, Lego and Nintendo. There’s something about having a child that makes you continuously pause and self-reflect on the past and future.  As soon as my daughter, Divya, was born in April 2015, I had a whole new appreciation for my own mother.  I suddenly felt guilty for not appreciating her enough for everything that she had done for me in this world.  Not just for her, but
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    An Amazing Thing Happens to Fathers When Their Daughters Are Born
    Darryl Silva
    • Nov 16, 2018
    • 3 min

    An Amazing Thing Happens to Fathers When Their Daughters Are Born

    It was the winter of 2013 and I was elated – I became a father for the first time and it was to a beautiful little girl, a surprise that my wife and I decided to jointly discover at the moment of birth. A short two and a half years later, we were blessed with a second incredible daughter. For a guy that grew up primarily on hockey rinks and baseball fields; a guy that grew up with one brother while living next door to my very close cousins, also boys; one thing was certain, I
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