Tag: parenting
What Teachers Really Want You to Know
As a parent, I want to know how I can best promote my child's academic success. As a teacher, I am a lot better...
Close to Home
When I was six, I convinced my little brother to join my club. For his contribution of nine dollars, he could be vice-president, while...
Potty Training Hell: Public Restrooms
Admittedly, I’m not a bodily fluids kinda girl. I’m easily grossed out and a sympathetic puker. Public restrooms are my own personal kind of...
Conscious Parenting :: Seeing Our Children as Teachers
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing...
The Morality of Procreation
When I announced my pregnancy last year, a number of people—mostly strangers—reacted to the news with a peculiar and somewhat rude question:
“Don’t you think...
Navigating Early Friendships :: Lead by Example
Early childhood friendships can be sweet and endearing, but young children are still working out a lot of social and emotional issues that need...
Some “Mom” Things I’ve Learned the Hard Way
Just the other day, while I was perusing social media, a friend who is becoming a new mom in the next few weeks asked...
I’m Obnoxious {Things I’ve Learned From My Teenage Daughter}
As a mother of a teenage girl, I have learned a lot about patience, understanding, and self-control. I am living the nightmare of middle...
My Four Parenting Truths {That Other Parents Might Not Like}
The hardest part of parenting is the other parents, myself included. But there are certain principals I live by when it comes to parenting...
Potty Training 101 :: 5 Tips to Help You Through
Potty training. We've all been through it ourselves and once we have children of our own we get to experience the side of it...
Parenting :: We All Fail Sometimes
I have a critical nature—both of myself and others. I hate it, but it's true. It's one of those things God may be working...
Montessori :: Why We Chose a Child-Focused Path
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured...
When You Were Mean to My Child
I took a Literacy class in undergrad: teaching reading seems pretty straightforward, but there's an entire science and a host of theories all intertwined...
Working and Pregnant :: More Than a Maternal Risk
There was a lot about my first pregnancy I wasn't ready for. I hated the new limitations on my body, and had a hard...