I watched you today, living your best life on the playground. Outside is your happy place, something you definitely didn’t get from me. It wasn’t long before you found your way to the giant rock, and like the trailblazer you are, you were scaling it before I could even get a word out. Suddenly, I…
There is no one more enthusiastic about life than a preschool child. If you are the parent of one of these precious little ones, you are in a super fun stage of life. Helping children learn at this age is pure joy because they are very eager. Everything is new to them and their entire…
I never considered myself an extrovert or introvert. I always felt like I was somewhere in the middle. My husband, on the other hand, is an introvert. He is perfectly content to just be by himself, although he can be very chatty in social situations. Somehow the two of us have managed to produce an…
Summer slide, or summer learning loss, is a term educators use to explain a student’s loss in reading and other academic skills during the summer. Almost every student experiences some form a summer slide; to what degree depends on what they did over their summer break. Teachers expect this slide and plan for it when…
