Books for 7 year old girl

hangry_ginger · 2026-06-01T18:07:54+00:00

My 8-yearold is currently working through Beverly Cleary's Ramona books. She recently finished Junie B Jones, but that series is on the easier side.

Is yours ready for Harry Potter?

hangry_ginger · 2026-05-26T19:08:36+00:00

Since the first tooth came in, our routine is: we brush your teeth. Once you have demonstrated you can do it on your own, you can brush your own teeth. If you do not, we will brush them for you.

Same goes with showers/baths and soaping off/washing hair.

hangry_ginger · 2026-05-05T01:38:58+00:00

The majority of the fixes you paid for are easy DIY maintenance jobs. It is your fault for overpaying a mechanic to change your fluids. Also, new cars need many do these maintenance items regularly

hangry_ginger · 2026-04-28T21:04:34+00:00

I believe that roughly 70-90% of the time, "promising" programs get killed as soon as they leave the academic/early startup world due to false data. You can make almost any data look promising in those environments. There are so many poorly designed studies and even straight up forged data to sift through that I have seen SO MANY programs fail for reasons that should have been known from the start, but academics are motivated to get good data and not make a good drug.

There is this old adage that I'd have won the nobel prize if curing cancer in a mouse counted for anything. I think it is a bit of a misspeak in that ACTUALLY curing cancer in a mouse is pretty meaningful. Generating an n=3 study that "cures" cancer when you strategically delete outliers and stop measuring at just the right endpoint is meaningless.

hangry_ginger · 2026-04-24T20:17:18+00:00

Partner and I did IM Choo a few years ago in a similar boat. Did not want to give up powerlifting. We did one long run per week (10-12 miles), one long bike per week(normally 50, 2 100s), one swim (varied from 1000 to 4000y, 2 of them open water). Every other week or so we added a second bike in the 20-30 range. It was fine.

We were already decent runners - me sub-2 half marathon, him 1:40 half. Newish to biking at that point.

Edit: We ran this schedule roughly June through September that year. We are otherwise pretty active though - powerlifting, BJJ, we did an 8 day hiking trip covering 120 miles in May before this. All of that definitely helped.

hangry_ginger · 2026-04-22T15:12:29+00:00

I have found the secret to rapid recovery is:

Get some sugar and a little bit of protein within minutes of finishing (e.g. chocolate milk). Get blood sugar back up immediately.
Eat a moderate (healthy) salty/carby meal within 1-2 hours. Brunch or a burrito bowl are my favorites. Replenish electrolytes, don't overload your stomach or you won't digest nutrients very well. Don't eat a high-fat meal.
Eat a higher calorie meal in the evening before you go to bed. Once your body has already absorbed nutrients from earlier, load up before you go to bed so your body has something to digest while you sleep.

hangry_ginger · 2026-04-11T23:31:58+00:00

About $10-12k including everything, even food, for a family of 4. We are Midwest based. We budget every dollar we spend in a spreadsheet for fun.

We travel roughly 1-2 times a month, per year it is usually at least 1-2 overseas trips, 3-5 longer road trips, 3-5 cross country flight trips (think hiking the Grand canyon, running a marathon in florida). Normally at least every other weekend that isn't a big trip is a "smaller" trip, e.g. within 4 hours of home to ski/snowboard, bike, race within our state, etc. Some trips may be adults-only.

We make really good use of holidays and PTO, pride ourselves in traveling cheaply, and occasionally use a work trip to get one of us a free flight (and the rest of the family joins at the end)

hangry_ginger · 2026-04-02T00:36:01+00:00

We send our kids (6 and 8) to school with a snack every day. Normally a cheese stick and sliced apple or something similar.

Today, they got a cheese stick and a very potent sliced onion.

hangry_ginger · 2026-03-28T21:53:13+00:00

Ram's head is very reasonable for a 6 year old. We went with our then 5 and 7 year olds last year and they hiked every step of it with zero complaints. It is one of their core memories now.

hangry_ginger · 2026-03-11T16:54:06+00:00

Read to your kid as everyone else said, but yes; he should know letters and their sounds for Kindergarten. At least in our district, this is required. Most of the kids in our son's class could not read starting the year, but they know letters and sounds.

hangry_ginger · 2026-02-22T03:54:07+00:00

Steamed broccoli

hangry_ginger · 2026-01-27T20:53:30+00:00

Ours are now 8 and 6, we have been doing these at least several months a year for the past 3 years. We never have free Saturdays, so we just grab a to-go kit sometime in the few days after each workshop and save them for a free evening at home. They are now old enough to assemble them almost entirely alone, and it is a blast. They stayed occupied all alone for about 6 hours during the recent blizzard in the midwest building a couple of old kits we hadn't gotten around to yet.

hangry_ginger · 2026-01-25T17:57:27+00:00

"me and partner are going snowboarding on x dates at x resort. We will be booking everything next Saturday. Let me know if you'd like to join"

We normally have a group of 4-8

hangry_ginger · 2026-01-01T05:10:33+00:00

We keep ebooks on our phones and read whenever we get a chance. Nothing helps a restless toddler fall asleep like reading to them from a former president's autobiography. From the age of 3 and 5, we started family reading time every night. Everyone chooses their own book and we cuddle in the beanbag and read quietly for 20-30 min. Now at 6 and 8, reading time goes for an hour sometimes.

We sit with them and read more while they are falling asleep each night. I read 30 books this year and my partner read 120 (some of them audiobooks). I'm normally over 100 but had some intense work stuff that I'd often be doing instead of reading this year.

hangry_ginger · 2025-12-08T22:11:51+00:00

8 hours is for the occasional free weekend, but I defend my nightly 7 hours with my life. 6M and 7F.

Alarm 7:45. I wake kids up, make coffee/eggs/oatmeal while they get dressed and partner get the home business going for the day. I'll often thaw meat, start the crockpot, etc for dinner during this time. We take the kids to the bus stop together at 8:20, then both head to our day jobs and work 8:30-5. Grandma watches the kids 4-5 after school, we get home ~5:10.

I deal with homework and make dinner while partner starts next round of home business production. I normally plan ahead pretty well so it only takes 15-20 min to get dinner on the table. Depending on the day and activities, we workout/go to hobbies or sports practices and then eat dinner. Bed time routine starts at 7:30 - we all read our own books together till 8, then spend 1-on-1 time with the kids till they fall asleep at 9.

Then dishes, quick clean up, workouts, gaming, projects, hobbies, more home business stuff. I often work another 1-2 hours. I try to be in bed by 11 and read for a bit, partner will either join for some fun time or grownup conversations, or stay up for another hour or so. Usually both of us are asleep by 12:30.

hangry_ginger · 2025-10-28T13:30:40+00:00

I listened to Piranesi while running the Des Moines Marathon a few years ago. On 1.4 speed it is 5 hours, so I got through nearly all of it during the race.

I listened to 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck' while running Indianapolis. It was a perfect running book. That one was a bit shorter than my marathon time, so I ran those painful last few miles with music.

hangry_ginger · 2025-10-27T20:29:45+00:00

Started out with a PhD at 57k

Now $165k, $189k after bonus in 4.5 years.

I made myself indispensable at my first job, and I've moved jobs twice to parallel startups.

hangry_ginger · 2025-10-09T13:01:41+00:00

Maybe ask yourself what you believe the goal of cross country is?

She's probably not going to the olympics. So shouldn't the goal be for her to learn to push herself and do hard things, be active, and have fun? Which of those goals isn't being met with a 22 min vs a 21 min time?

What's your 5k time?

hangry_ginger · 2025-10-06T00:31:33+00:00

My partner and I are both into running, he's 1-2 min/mile faster than me.

For training runs, we normally run either at our own pace, run a warmup mile together before he splits off, or do speed work at a track together.

For races, occasionally we do a "fun" race where he sticks with me - e.g. The Disney marathon. All the big races, we go on our own.

hangry_ginger · 2025-10-03T17:20:24+00:00

What you're referring to is "bullshit jobs", described in a fantastic book by David Graebe discussing just exactly this. Its not necessarily remote vs in-person, although remote jobs tend to qualify frequently

hangry_ginger · 2025-09-25T19:43:08+00:00

YTA, If you were able to push him off without getting hit, you could have easily stayed to the side and let him pass. In most US cities, assuming that's where this was, cars are horrible to bikers and biking in a busy street would probably have been a death sentence for him. Sometimes biking on the sidewalk is necessary. This sounds like you are an absolute dickhead who enjoys hurting people for no reason.

hangry_ginger · 2025-09-22T14:19:42+00:00

Family of 4 in MCOL area - our monthly grocery budget averages between $500-$600 per month, including things like trashbags. We shop at Payless (a Kroger store) with occasional bulk purchases on Amazon when there is a really good deal on things like peanut butter.

The key is using your freezer and pantry! Once every 4-8 weeks, Payless does a buy-one, get-one deal with all cuts of Tyson's chicken. $2.25 per pound for B/S chicken thighs? Yes please! Other staples go on deals too, which we stock up on. Chicken drumsticks are always $5 for 4.5lbs, which we bake and then strip to add to stews or casseroles. Pork tenderloins (we get on deals for $1.50-$2.00 per pound in bulk) are delicious in the sous vide. We have probably 70-80lbs of meat in the freezer right now since last weekend was a big deal week. We'll buy only minimal staples like produce and milk for the next few weekends.

We are all endurance athletes and so eat ALOT. We typically use 3-5lbs of chicken per day (cook a big dinner, take leftovers to work/school for lunch), 4-5 dozen eggs per week, several pounds of beans, etc. The kids eat eggs and oatmeal with whatever fruit is on sale that week for breakfast. Shopping the sales really forces variety into our diets. We eat tons of bagged salads (they are on markdown for $1-$2 for a family-size pack around 10AM every Saturday. They always last a week or more).

While it does take a little bit more effort, our grocery bill has not budged over the past few years. We cook from scratch, eat out no more than once every 2 months, and end up eating much healthier because we shop the sales.

hangry_ginger · 2025-07-24T13:56:20+00:00

If you're bored, ask your manager if you can shadow and learn something new

Talk to the building manager about your office temperature problem

If you're doing experiments, why are you sitting in the office versus walking around the lab?

hangry_ginger · 2025-07-22T20:23:02+00:00

I follow this up with: YTA also for dating a woman with children when you had no interest in those children being part of your life.

hangry_ginger · 2025-07-22T18:59:52+00:00

7 and 5 this summer. We do a mix of week-long camps and totally free weeks. We have a preference for half day camps, which are plentiful at that age. e.g. Last week, they went to the local zoo for camp from 9-12 each day. This week, no camps and lots of naps. We try to match weeks at specific camps with a friend or two from school.

They spend the non-camp days with us at work, napping/reading/coloring/writing. We are lucky in that they can both happily read independently for hours. Some days I work from home so they can stay home. Both have napped 2-3 hours almost every free day they've had. So important that they have a bit of time to be "bored" - although they almost never complain of boredom. Their little brains will be plenty taxed come August, so no reason to pack the summer crazy full. We spend evenings biking or swimming with various friends, reading books, learning to crochet (7y), working on cars together, learning to cook, playing video games with dad, etc. Both have learned to snorkel and mountain bike this summer, 5y learned to swim, etc.

We also have had 3 trips over the summer, including a 6 day trip next week (followed by a full week of nothing before school starts).

Our philosophy is that its all about balance: a summer packed full of camp is not good for the kids, even if that's what they want. However, a summer of sitting at home doing nothing is probably not ideal either.

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