I have a preschooler. I have a preschooler who loves to talk. I have a preschooler who loves to talk about everything but school.
Honestly, I had no idea that the ambiguous answers to the standard, "How was your day?" would start...
A rush of hot, humid wind seemed to lift and escape past me as I shut the back door of our van. In one hand I clutched a small trash bag and in the other a stack of fast...
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This pandemic has been going on for longer than anyone expected, and it made the world switch to a whole new reality of virtual everything.
We’ve all done it––Zoom meetings, virtual happy hours, and FaceTime family game night. We’ve been...
I think it is pretty safe to assume that most of us are thrilled that the world is back open, and our routines and lives no longer revolve around staying away from others. This also means that many of...
I can’t decide if it was a million years ago or just a month ago that I was desperately calling for the start of summer. Overwhelmed with end-of-year assignments, finals, performances, and parties, I was ready to kick May...
“Write so others can understand without you explaining what it says.” I told my son this the other day. Even though he can correctly spell many words at 6-years-old, his handwriting is a challenge. Ever since he started pre-handwriting...
"Every child deserves a champion—an adult who will never give up on him, who understands the power of connection, and insists that he become the best that he can possibly be."
—Rita Pierson
Look! It's a bird, it’s a plane...no, it’s a...
A week ago if you had told me that school districts would begin to shut down amid the COVID-19 virus, I would have rolled my eyes at you. Here we are, 7 days later and my children’s spring break...
One in five children in the United States has a learning difference.
Roughly 6.1 million children have ADHD.
Yet as a society we still expect every child in the classroom to fit a particular academic and social mold. And when...
It’s interesting how much of our kids’ lives are bookmarked by the stages of school. With my youngest heading to middle school, I’m mindful that our elementary years are over. (Yay for no more shoebox projects; boo for no...
Whether or not we admit it, every mom does it: we all wonder what our littles will be when they turn into "bigs." And then we wonder how we'll pay for it. My first semester of in-state college tuition...
I’m a mom of two young boys, which means our family’s television time typically revolves around all things cars and dinosaurs. My eldest son has been all about Disney’s Cars – 1 and 3 only (2 is not up...
This summer was an exciting one. It was the summer before my oldest daughter started kindergarten. As a dyslexia therapist, reading is obviously a huge passion of mine. I was so excited to start teaching my...
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