Surviving At Home

I’m reading an interesting book titled Motivated Minds: Raising Children to Love Learningand one of the author’s suggestions is to really pay attention to what your kids like and focus their activities around those interests. The idea is if your child really loves something, she’ll want to read or learn more about it and this [...]

I’m having a great time giggling as I eavesdrop on my youngest pretending she’s the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. Both girls are in a youth production of Alice so we’ve seen the movie a bunch of times and my youngest keeps singing “I’m Late, I’m Late, I’m Late”.
These are the times when I [...]

Just the other day my neighbor was complaining that our daughters’ preschool didn’t focus enough on academics and she didn’t think her daughter was well-prepared for kindergarten. She then went on to state that she wanted more academics because she and her husband just don’t spend the time sitting down with their daughter to go [...]