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Board Games for Boys, More Like BORED Games for Boys

Board Game

Ah, game night. What a wholesome, thoughtful and meaningful way to spend time as a family. I mean, what could be more Rockwellian than our humble little family of four, sitting ’round the dining room table, rolling dice and spinning spinners until we collectively cheer for the deserving winner of one of our favorite board games for boys? Um, pretty much anything. That’s what. Because when you are…

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How We Celebrate When It's Mom's Birthday

Birthdays Look a Little Different While Raising Boys

It’s become a yearly tradition here at OohBother to pen a celebratory Birthday Post for our most senior writer – Me. It may seem a little self-indulgent to write a post for yourself on your birthday, especially when one is busy managing a household and raising boys, but as much as I try to fight it, at my core I’m just a basic birthday bitch, who wants to write about herself on her special day.…

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Wine O'Clock: Per Aspera Ad Astra

Wine O’Clock: Per Aspera Ad Astra

These people aren’t assigned to us, but chosen by us—and isn’t that as worthy of celebration as any confluence of fate and genetics? These carefully selected families continue to grow throughout our lives without a ticking sociological to worry about. (more…)

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10 words about my best vacation

Nowadays, a family is simply a network of people who care for each other. It can contain hundreds or two. You can be born into one or build your own. Membership can be gained through genetics, friendship, geographic proximity, work or a shared appreciation. (more…)

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For friday night

In our current society, real family values have nothing to do with where we live or how we know each other—they’re about how we treat each other. Now there’s a concept worthy of a cheesy half hour of television. (more…)

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A sense of space

Assuming you were both about the same size, you were able to easily balance on the seesaw. The following image appears to be in balance, with two equally sized people equally distant from the fulcrum on which the seesaw balances. (more…)

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Exploring the New York

Ever wondered if your lack of artistic ability was due to your parents’ mathematical-minded genetics or their refusal to sign you up for after-school art classes? Or how your friend was a piano prodigy despite her dad barely being able to play a note? (more…)

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Private Estate Wedding

Some believe that hereditary factors are responsible for one family producing generations of musical virtuosos, while others suggest that our cultural and environmental surroundings play a larger role than genetics. (more…)

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Weekend with Friend

Human nature is a broad term that encompasses many qualities. Creativity is less a general or amorphous quality and more a very specific capacity to exercise a specific set of skills. Is everyone born with the potential to develop these skills? (more…)

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Photographer to Inspire: Andel Afamger

The literature on creativity suggests that there are at least a few personality traits that promote creative behavior, such as openness, a willingness to take risks and an ability to tolerate ambiguity and cope with novel situations. (more…)

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Coconut coffee milk ice cream

They were both Chinese immigrants to America—my father was a mechanic and my mother took care of the family. They taught me to work hard, take opportunities, accept responsibility and eschew cowardice, less by explicit direction and more by implicit influenc (more…)

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Everyday creative impulse

In reality, the friend who always answers our calls, the barista who doubles as our therapist, and the co-worker who invited us out during our first crushingly lonely week in a new city can feel as much like our family as the clan we’re born into. Balancing a composition involves arranging both positive elements and negative space in such a way that no one area of the design overpowers other…

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Contemporary OutDoor Culture

It’s true that in some environments, the practice of creative skills isn’t encouraged and may be actively discouraged. In some places, schools may present such environments.If parents can provide more opportunities for this, that would help. (more…)

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Typography post

The person on the left makes the If one of the people was much bigger, though, the balance would be thrown off.seesaw rotate counterclockwise, and the person on the right makes it rotate clockwise by an equal amount. The force of each person acts in a different direction, and their sum is zero. Just as in the physical world, visual balance is a good thing. It’s desirable in and of itself. (more…)

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Surf Panorama

A balanced composition feels right. It feels stable and aesthetically pleasing. While some of its elements might be focal points and attract your eye, no one area of the composition draws your eye so much that you can’t see the other areas.

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The Avener - Fade out lines

The Avener – Fade out lines

A balanced composition feels right. It feels stable and aesthetically pleasing. While some of its elements might be focal points and attract your eye, no one area of the composition draws your eye so much that you can’t see the other areas.

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15 Things: My amazing places

People who have a difficult time differentiating one musical note from another may have a hard time singing on key. However, there are ways of overcoming or compensating for this. The plasticity of the brain is quite amazing. (more…)

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