You see all the videos and memes on social media that display PTO groups like high school for adults. There's the potential for cliquey...
A happy, easy baby: that's what our daughter Lauren was from the time she was born. She nursed and napped often and easily and...
My husband and I grew up in small towns where the local public schools were really the only choice for local schooling. By state...
More than one hundred and eighty thousand children in the state of Indiana receive special education services from the day they turn three to...
I looked the ten-year-old student in the eyes and asked, "Should you give your personal information out on the internet?" He ignored my question....
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...
I have two daughters, age thirteen and seventeen. All of their school careers, they have been attending private schools that had strict uniform codes....
Even as an adult, after a long day of work or managing the household, falling into the couch with a binge-worthy TV show is...
My son Stephen E. Beaven III, aka Trey, is the ultimate introvert. He doesn't say much, and when he does speak, it is so...
Somehow the summer months pass in the blink of an eye and yet drag on for centuries all at once. The same can be...
The International School of Indiana (ISI) is the only Indiana school offering immersion and dual language programs in three languages, French, Mandarin, and Spanish,...
In the days leading up to the first day of kindergarten, I agonized over everything. “Will she get motion sick on the bus?” “Will...
My daughter is heading off to college this month. This is, of course, affecting me in both an emotional and practical way. She and...

Preschool Scaries

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At a family reunion this summer, my cousin, whom I hadn't seen in ten years, asked if my daughter was in preschool. And she...

In + Around Indy

Your Guide to Indiana Fever Game Day

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It’s a new era of women’s basketball. After intense negotiations, the league and the players agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement.  The biggest outcome:...