For parents who want to worry less and play more!
The other day I was having a long awaited, adult conversation with a friend of mine. We met when our daughters were 9 months old in a parent/infant education group and I used to live around the corner from her for 2 years. We have kept in touch and our girls still play with each […]
Posted on January 2nd, 2006 by Suzanne
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This is a subject that I feel like I’m becoming intimate with. It happens to be one of those subjects that I keep writing about because I keep reading about it—hence I think it qualifies as a trend. In this month’s “Parents” magazine there is an article called, “Preschool Pressure–Child-development experts worry that early academics […]
Posted on November 16th, 2005 by Sam
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This article, “Maybe Preschool Is the Problem?” was published in the New York Times in May of this year. This is what got my attention initially, “IF six out of every 1,000 preschool children are asked to pack up their Goldfish crackers and never return to nursery school - expelled at the tender age of […]
Posted on October 4th, 2005 by Sam
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While my big, fat Sunday New York Times sits faithfully at the end of my bed from the time I take it inside until at least Thursday of that week, I’m thankful for my friend David who, like clock work, reads it cover to cover and sends me the juicy bits. I guess that’s […]
Posted on May 22nd, 2005 by Sam
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I’ve always know the three “r’s” to be about readin, ‘ritin, and ‘rithmatic but in a recent article in the Seattle Post Intellicencer, Bill Gates redefines them. Right about now you might be scared. After all, he must be some maniacal academic, right? I mean he is the richest man in the world and he […]
Posted on May 19th, 2005 by Sam
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