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Last Day, First Day

June 21, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Last day of school, summer is here. Last day of my baby’s kindergarten year. Last day packing lunches and taking the bus. Last day for alarm clocks and making a fuss. Last day for ripping the brush through the hair, and frantically searching for something to wear. Last day of forgetting to send in the […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: beach, Common core, first, kindergarten, lake, last, pajama, party, school, snakc, socks, summer

My parenting idol is an unwed mother who got knocked up when she was sixteen years old.

January 20, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

I’ve discovered why I love Gilmore Girls so much. And I’ll be honest. It took me a little while to get to this point. To the point of loving the show so much that I now feel the need to pace myself and ration episodes because I know I’m gonna be really depressed when I’ve watched […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Parenting Tagged With: bento box, Common core, declutter, Gilmore Girls, husband, married, mom, organized, parenting

Common Core isn’t the problem.

February 11, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Back in 1997, when I was twenty-nine years old and an elementary school teacher in Pennsylvania, I made the decision to move back to Connecticut. Knowing that I was moving at the end of that school year, I applied for teaching jobs in a handful of school districts in Fairfield County,  one of the most affluent […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Common core, curmudgeon, maverick, teaching my kids the new math, trends in education

Strategery

October 1, 2014 by not your average mom 3 Comments

I’m not sure why, but Number 4 is a little obsessed with what school was like when I was kid. Last week I answered a couple of her questions but cut her off when she asked if regular schools were invented back then or did I go to school in a one-room school house. Ouch. […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Common core, problem solving strategies, school today vs school then

Take that, Common Core.

September 25, 2014 by not your average mom 10 Comments

I had a therapy appointment today, and my mom babysat while I was gone. When I got home, she was sitting on the couch working on a math menu problem with Number 4. My mom took one look at me and said, “Kill me now.” Number 4 was running out of patience. “MOM!!! IT SAYS I HAVE TO […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: codependent relationships, Common core, math menu

Open House. Stop wasting our time. And yours.

September 10, 2014 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Back in the day, after you were in school for a  few weeks or even a month,  you had Back to School Night. Your teachers would have you make some cute stuff and have it hanging on bulletin boards and placed on the desks for the parents to look at. There wasn’t email, or the […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: back to school night, Common core, first day of school, open house

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