Parents can easily get obsessed worrying about shooter rampages, terrorism attacks, and brutal bullies harming their children while at school. The truth is your child is more likely to get maimed by s…
After many months of wheedling and cajoling, I finally cave in to my 7-year old son's wishes to have a house pet. See, we live in a tiny flat, we have an infant in the house, and I take pet care a…
As we've mentioned before we are in year round school district so our daughter is out of school at unusual times. We love the year round concept but we understand why it doesn't work for some …
A few years ago, wee made some tough decisions about our daughter's academics and we finally are getting some real confirmation we made the right moves.
In her school, their grading scale is 4 – …
I have a child with a forgetful nature. Coupled with her backpack being a paper graveyard, she often leaves things that school.
She's got an agenda to fill out and go by. I had big flame colored …
Last night I had a conference with my daughter's teacher. It was completely unremarkable, quick and basically amounted to being told her marks are at grade level or over and things are fine. The s…
I got an interesting looking email today that I thought I'd share in case it interested any of you:
Well it is back to school time again and many of us are wondering how we can become more involv…
I know youtube.com can be a cesspool but I've enjoyed the site a ton. We have some videos there and I love the idea of people being able to self-broadcast their own news and programs.
Normally t…
My daughter got 10 of 20 words right on her last spelling test. Of course, that's also 10 of 20 words wrong. Either way we had to do something to help her absorb the words quicker. The regular met…
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This school year is my son's last year in preschool. I am hoping he can be accepted to first grade next school year. Though I am nervous that he doesn&…