Obama, Romney, and Education Recently, both presidential candidates attended their own fundraising events where guests paid $50,000 a plate to hear them say just what they wanted to hear….or at least close to what they wanted to hear. Guess who probably was not in the audience? Parents of public school students, public school or charter…
Label it up and you are golden Filing Schoolwork, Part Deux… In the last post, I posted an idea or two about filing solutions that could help our children keep track of their schoolwork. But what about filing solutions that help parents keep track of their children’s work as it is brought home (or turned…
Soon enough everyone will be talking about Back To School time. However, I am a firm believer in making my life easier by always preparing for things that are inevitable. We talk about Back To School regularly around here, as my oldest son will be starting his 3rd school in this his 3rd year of…
By Lyssa Sahadevan from My Mommy Reads on Class Notes by Parenting Magazine Does your child’s teacher have big plans for the “long” summer vacation? Will he or she be traveling the globe? Writing her memoirs? Lounging by the pool? Reading the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy? Maybe… More likely than not though, your child’s teacher…
One of our favorite bloggers, Lyssa Sahadevan, had a post published on Parenting Magazine, Building a good parent-teacher relationship You can see the rest of the post on Parenting. Want to know how to build a good parent-teacher relationship? We share teachers’ top pet peeves, how to score brownie points with teachers and more.
“If I do just one thing this summer to help my child stay on track, what should it be?” As a teacher, this is the question I am asked most this time of year. It is a logical question too, as summer learning loss is a serious concern. No one wants their child to work…
Definitely life is about learning and somewhere along the lines, we may have jumped past the basics trying to keep up with The Joneses. The Joneses, in this case, being other countries. We have a job to do and now is the time to get to the basics of that job. Back To Basics: Reading…
