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How to Talk to Your Kids About... Quality Engineering

Statistical sampling and the toy box

Nothing tops the feeling of knowing you may have brought an engineer into this world.
Dawn Keller
Wed, 01/28/2015 - 14:05
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I really can’t make this stuff up.

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I wrote a post a couple of years ago titled: “How to Talk to Your Kids About... Quality Improvement,” in which I lamented about Community Hero Day in my daughter’s first-grade class and the need to explain to her why I wasn’t at the “community-hero level” of classmate Maggie’s mommy, the pediatrician.

Well, now it’s two years later, and my son, Thomas, is in class with Maggie’s little brother, Sam. Seriously. Again. But instead of Community Hero Day, however, the classroom had Engineering Day. Step aside, Maggie’s mommy!

Or maybe not. Enter Maggie and Sam’s daddy, the aerospace engineer.

Seriously, this family.

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Submitted by Joshua Milbourn on Wed, 01/28/2015 - 10:18

my experience as well

Thank you for this article. I've had a similar experience with my oldest son when he was in Kindergarten. Of couse, having all boys, everything ends up being about launching things and explosions!

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