First, a disclaimer. I was not an English literature major or anything in college. So don’t be expecting anything professional. As a busy and exhausted mom who still does not have large amounts of uninterrupted time to read anything, my criteria for a good book are as follows: 1) Degree of Difficulty — I like […]
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10 Alternatives To Having Your Kids Work On Workbooks This Summer
Today someone I’m friends with on Facebook posted a question asking if she was the only one who had her kids do workbooks over summer vacation. And there were dozens of responses saying YES! and Absolutely! and I don’t want my kids to forget everything they learned over the summer! I was the only person in […]
I Did Not Require My Kids To Read This Summer, And I Never Will
The other day a friend of mine acknowledged in a closed Facebook group for the middle school that she had not required her child to read this summer, and she described herself as an “awful mom,” and she wanted to know what the consequence was for this failure to force her kid to read over […]
Did my kids read for 600 minutes this summer? I don’t really know. And I don’t really care.
I was a teacher before I had kids. A young, opinionated, judgemental teacher. I often found myself saying, “How hard is it?” How hard is it to clean out a backpack? How hard is it to fill out a permission slip? How hard is it to check your kid’s work? How hard is it to […]