“Within the child lies the fate of the future.” -Dr. Maria Montessori
Like many parents of pandemic babies and toddlers, my husband and I struggled...
For the first time, I will have three kids in school full-time. After almost eight years of being a stay-at-home mom, I find myself...
The everyday collapse
Collapse, I don’t know if it’s her or me who is collapsing most afternoons due to all the attitude she brings home...
Seriously, a school year for the history books. From a parent’s perspective of sending their young child into a building with 700+ other people...
Teacher Appreciation Day is not for another couple of months, but why should we limit appreciating teachers to only one day out of the...
We did it--we survived our first school year of kindergarten, and dare I say, we thrived?! I don't mean that I thrived in the...
I went to my first official school meeting this month in preparation for sending our soon-to-be 5-year-old off to Kindergarten in August. The introductory information meeting...
Our little girl Lauren recently wrapped up her kindergarten year with a bang: she lost one of her front teeth and moved into her...
More than one hundred and eighty thousand children in the state of Indiana receive special education services from the day they turn three to...
On our recent family vacation, my daughter innocently began to discuss a Code Blue drill she had at school. Unfortunately, I knew the very drill...
A few months ago, I was reading a Facebook post in the Carmel moms group. The mom wrote the post asking for advice because...
The first Read Across America was held on March 2nd in 1998 and was the National Education Foundation's brainchild. They landed on March 2nd...
The traditional latchkey kids of the 1980s would come home after school to an empty house because their parents were still at work. Many...
When our third and final child, a boy, was born in March of 2013, it seemed his academic timeline would mirror our daughter's path,...
























