This is the first year that PickyKidPix hasn’t see her closest friends since Kindergarten on a daily basis. She’s in middle school now and she and her friends are on different teams, on different school buses, and doing different activities. They had no common activity, so I suggested boxing. PickyKidPix started boxing with me during…
A dad friend encouraged me to sign my daughter up for an afterschool elementary school class called Wicked Cool Science. He was a high school science teacher and had a son and daughter of his own. “If you don’t get your daughter’s interested in science before middle school,” he warned, “They will turn their backs on…
Dear 16 year old me, Just a few quick things as I pop back in time. 1) Swimming is not your sport I know that you love this swim team. Your coach and teammates are amazingly supportive, kind, and smart. They celebrate your personal best as enthusiastically as you do their blue ribbons. It’s just…
Today, I am doing some serious Spring cleaning and I am giving away 6 packages of wonderful self published children’s books. To enter, please fill out the Rafflecopter and please leave me a comment about which package you want. I’ll do my best to match up the packages to each winner. Package 1: Arlene, The…
I’m so sorry to be late for the Homeschool Blogging Carnival hosted by Lisa at The Squishable Baby and Keisha at Unschooling Momma. I’ve been distracted by racism in a musical at the local high school that has hit a nerve and generated a lot of press including a front-page article in The Boston Globe, 2 OpEd articles in…
Please welcome my guest author, Natalie from After School with Smarty Pants. She has wonderful enrichment activities and life skills for advanced learners on her blog. Today, she covering how to find books for an advanced young reader which can be tricky because the content might be too advanced or inappropriate for them. Who Is…
The Miracle of a Skype Author Visit! My son’s third grade teachers requested a school author visit from Doug Cushman. They teach a mystery writing unit and they use Doug’s mystery picture books to start off the unit. A picture book mystery is perfect for breaking down the elements of a good mystery story: leading…