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.
Please welcome my guest blogger Faigie Kobre with a topic that I had started a few months ago — 50 Ways to Develop Your Child’s Self-Esteem — but with no ideas in it. I don’t think I even had a single way written yet. Her post is on developing kids’ self-esteem, a gift that gives…
My husband just got back from a trip to the United Kingdom. It was a golfing trip with buddies to celebrate his friend’s 60th birthday. When he got back, I asked him if we should go as a family. I had spent time in London and Cambridge, before kids, and I wanted to take the…
PickyKidPix wants to trade stocks this summer using the stock account that her grandmother set up for her AND her own money. Too bad I forgot the password. It might be faster for me to transfer her account to my brokerage account than to actually figure it out! I tried to sign us both up…
Can you believe that I have not chaperoned a field trip for PickyKidPix since she was in Kindergarten?! And now she is about to graduate from 5th grade to start Middle School! I had two choices, The Museum of Fine Arts and The Freedom Trail so I asked my daughter to choose and she asked…
It took me years before I decided I was worth it. Carving out time for myself felt selfish and decadent. I started slowly when my youngest started preschool with resuming exercise after nearly a decade of doing nothing. At first I had to justify exercise. It was for my health. It made me a better…
My oldest is in 7th grade now, Grasshopper and Sensei, and this was a gift each 5th grade kid received. Each child wrote one sentence to each of their classmates on why they appreciate that person. Their teacher typed it up and printed it on beautiful paper. It reminds me of what she was like…
I feel fortunate to have kept in touch with one of my Freshman dorm mates, Lisa Rosowsky, who is a professor at the Mass College of Arts, an artist, and mother of two teenage daughters. As a very nurturing Prof — she is SO nice — she councils teens and twenty-somethings all day, every day….