My blog covers education and children’s books. When I cover parenting issues, it usually contains book recommendations. Parenting topics include academic subjects, summer learning, bullying, special needs, fitness and more.
My son’s third grade class came up with the best idea for a teacher gift! A progressive story! Using Google Docs, each child wrote one or two paragraphs of a story about their teacher before passing it on. You needed to read the story before you could add your own, so it was also a…
I went for the first time to Plimoth Plantation as a chaperone for my son’s third grade field trip. I somehow managed to avoid it for my girls. It was really a great trip and the kids were very well prepared. My son said that he preferred learning about the Native Americans (and Wampanoags specifically)…
My son’s elementary school spent the whole year fundraising in order to build a new playground because the old one was nearing the end of its life. The new playground is wonderful and just opened this past week. PickyPidPix, now in middle school, came to the playround opening with her friend right after soccer practice. The…
This year is the first year we are breaking with our tradition of strawberry picking for Father’s Day. My husband came up with this idea years ago and every year we hold our breath that the strawberries will be ready for Father’s Day picking. Some years, it doesn’t get hot enough and there might be…
The main event! Rick Riordan at the Mega Awesome Author Event with Eoin Colfer, Jonathan Stroud, and Ridley Pearson. It was an awesome group! Eoin Colfer should be a stand-up comedian; that guy really is that funny! Jonathan Stroud has that lovely Brit sense of humor. He’s humble and charming. Ridley Pearson is the kind…
I received an opportunity to try out Sphero and I thought my son might like it since he’s learning how to program in Scratch and Processing (an object-oriented version of Java). What I didn’t realize was that Grasshopper and Sensei, a rising high school freshman, and PickyKidPix, a rising 7th grader, also wanted the Sphero, such that…
Please welcome my guest author, Selena Smith, who is covering the importance of body safety education for kids starting at age 3. Parents everywhere desperately want to keep their children safe. Children are told over and over not to play in the street, always wear seatbelts, don’t talk to strangers, say no to drugs, and…