For parents who want to worry less and play more!

Orca here we come…

As you know if you’re a reader of this blog, among my many stresses in life involves the ongoing education of my children. For the last three years (this year they are in pre-K) they’ve been at a wonderful independent school called, Giddens. Everything about this school, pretty much, is fantastic. Small class sizes, wonderful […]

Social Studies and Art, Two More Casualties of “No Child Left Behind”

I was reading an article in the Sunday New York Times called,

Sick Mom

What is worse than being a sick mom and caring for your kids. Is there anything quite that challenging? For the last few days I’ve had visitors in town, kids who because of those visitors are keyed up on sugar and not sleeping all that well. And on top of that, I’m so congested I […]

No Child Left Inside

Is it true that our worry and concern as parents is turning our children into nature-deficient individuals? We went out with some friends last night and of course as always, we were talking about our children and our childhood. We were lamenting the fact that our children have such a different reality than we did. […]

Twin Friends

So they say there is comfort in numbers and whoever the “they” are I think they must be right. Last Friday my friend Sally and I got both of our sets of twins together (I really hate to say “set” but you know what I mean) for a whirl wind of fun. She had them […]

George Will Never Had a Teacher Like Zada

We started getting a subscription to Newsweek Magazine about 6 months ago. One of the neighborhood kids came selling subscriptions and because I already had subscriptions to most of what she was offering, I settled on Newsweek. I figured I could now not only see pictures of all the latest terrorists as I do on […]