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Summer’s Routine Lite
How Can You Discuss and Establish Some Important Boundaries at the Beginning of Summer So EVERYONE Can Have Fun (including parents!)?
New Year’s Reflections
We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience. – John Dewey January is always a time in which my family and I reflect on the past year and dream about our hopes for the future. We try and step back and look at the big picture before diving into our specific plans …
A Story of Thanksgiving
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy When I started to think about Thanksgiving and gratefulness this year, a memory flashed through my mind that I couldn’t and didn’t want to shake. It was the early …
Weapon Play and Villains
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. – Francis Bacon Truly wonderful the mind of a child is. – YODA, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones “I want to be Darth Vader when I grow up,” said E with grandeur as he strutted through the house with …
Helping Children Understand Death
Mostly it is loss which teaches us the worth of things. – Arthur Schopenhauer Vrrrwow… the sound of a light saber comes close and pokes me in the back. I have been play-killed by my son, sometimes seen as Darth Vader, on a typical morning in our house. “You’re dead,” he says. Yet he expects …
Summer Reading
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ― F. Scott Fitzgerald When I was growing up, my neighborhood library held the “Super Summer Reading Program.” I so fondly recall weekly trips to the library with …
“Confident Parents, Confident Kids” — Named Top Parenting Book by the Greater Good Science Center!
Teens, Sleep and Back to School!
Building Trust between Family and Educators from the Start!
Supporting your Child’s Emotional Well-being Going Back to School
Understanding the Social and Emotional Development of the Middle Years!
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