Our 2nd Pinewood Derby Car Working Tips - 童子军松木赛车 之二

It's his 2nd Pinewood Derby Car season, and we want to try something different this year. Surprisingly, our new strategy worked ! My son's car won the 2nd place in speed contest. 😏 
Just like to share a few tips here. Again, it may or may not work for your case, but just to inspire you to try something differently.

Let him do it

Looked back, I felt that I did more than I should've done for him last
year. Probably OK for the first car. This year I promised myself - let

Easy Tips for Fishing with Your Kids - 孩子钓鱼窍门

After reading the benefit of fishing with your kids: staying away from xboxes & cell phones, learning a new skill set, getting father-son time, I bet you want to give a try.  But how, or how to get an easy first catch with your kids? 

There are many online tips, but probably not very practical. My post will share one easy & practical tip to fish with you kids in a pond. It works every single time. In fact, we even held a fishing party, and every kid caught a few. 

Please try it out and comment with your results :-)

Our 1st Pinewood Derby Car from A to Z - 童子军松木赛车 之一

My son and I had zero background about the Pinewood Derby Car when we got his car kit from our Pack. Over the past 2 months, we did lots of homework via Google & YouTube and also bought several tools & accessories for the project. Eventually, we built our first Derby car and surprisingly brought a trophy back home.

Now I like to share our lessons/tips learned from this project. I am
not trying to focus on some technical depth about how to make your car faster or more realistic but more to summarize the whole project with a series of steps. It probably does not help or spark those Derby gurus but hopefully gives some hands to the first-time maker and beginners.

One question before I start - does your son have his own toolbox? If not, it is probably a good time to get one for him. I bought a CAT Portable Toolbox for my son. It turned out to be a good decision; especially on the contest day he had everything in one

Cub Scouts Experience - 儿子参加童子军的经历 (7-12岁)

1. 导语

这里的经验仅限于我和儿子参加了一年半的Cub Scouts活动，所以分享经验主要基于Cub Scouts。Cub Scout 是童子军的预科，主要针对7-12岁男孩。通常说的童子军是指 Boy Scout 12-18岁男孩。更多童子军信息参见 Boy Scout of America 网站。

2. 摘要 －What is in it for my son?
我觉得讲俗一点儿 就是“孩子们在一起分享各家的爸爸”。那么正式地讲就是培养男孩子在学习和体育之外的诸多能力，比如户外  outdoor，动 手能力， 团队合作teamwork，领导能力