Eighteen years ago I got a 4th grade teaching position in a fairly wealthy and extremely competitive school district in Fairfield County, CT. I had just moved back to Connecticut from Pennsylvania where I had been teaching for five years. After the principal offered me the job, I was sent to meet with the Assistant Superintendent. […]
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If your child is nervous about the first day of kindergarten, this will help.
I know a lot of you are getting ready to send a child off to kindergarten. (And I know the thought of that first day of school is often way harder for moms than it is for the kids.) But if your son or daughter is a little (or a lot) nervous about that first day, I […]
I live in the Land Of The Free, and that’s the way I’m going to parent.
This morning I went for a run. And being the 4th of July, Independence Day, I was thinking about this holiday. I was thinking about how one of the greatest things about this country is that we have freedom. And then as I was running I started thinking about how, in this country where we have […]
TGITLMOTSY (Thank God It’s the Last Monday of the School Year)
We are in our last week of school. Yesterday was so nice that we let the kids stay in the pool after Number 3’s baseball game and then we ate outside on the deck and then we had to get the little guys into bed and well, I had put off telling everyone to get […]
To My Daughter’s Kindergarten Teacher
To My Daughter’s Kindergarten Teacher, My daughter starts kindergarten in 13 days. 13 days. I have been sitting here staring at those two words and sobbing. Sobbing for two reasons. First, time is just flying. If you have children of your own you understand this. That day you bring your child home from the hospital, you […]