Faith and begorahh! Not that I know what that means! Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Now that we’re parents, the St Patrick’s Day drinkfests of our youth are no more (it is to be hoped, anyway). Maybe some parents whose kids are in school all day can do the “be at the bar at 8 am” stuff, but for those of us whose days parenting young kids coincides neatly with the age of discovering We Can’t Do That Stuff Anymore, St. Patrick’s Day is just another day.
There’s fun ways to celebrate, though. My daughter’s school had a green party, where all of the parents brought in different green foods for the kids to try like zucchini, pea pods, and cucumbers. And we got a cool press release here the other day – the folks at language instruction company Rosetta Stone are offering free access to their “Irish” (really Gaelic) online course through Thursday.
Just go to their site, www.rosettastone.com, and click the link for the free trial. Go through the registration process and you’ll get a link in your email to the software.
It’s very cool and multimedia and a lot more intuitive than the language classes I ha din college. It even helps mak sense out of Gaelic, which seems to be second only to Polish in words that are pronounced nothing like how they are written. The course is very basic but probably wouldn’t grab the attention of a younger kid, although older ones would probably like it.
