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Continue reading →: How to Be Your Child’s Champion Without Stealing the MicLast night I had the pleasure of attending the Tatnall Continuum. Mr. Scott shared something that has stayed with him for years: as an educator, you can choose to be an advocate, a mentor, or a champion for your students. I loved that idea and woke up still trying to…
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Continue reading →: Are they ready… am I ready?If you have a fourth or fifth grader at home right now, you can probably feel it. They want more independence. They want you to knock before entering their room. They want their own login. They want to debate everything at dinner like they are prepping for a courtroom drama.…
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Continue reading →: Worry, Wobbles, and Brave Practice: What Kids Need MostLast week, I wrote from the heart, because anxiety has been a very regular topic in our house lately. This week, I did what I always do when life gets loud. I went back to the books. Because while my instinct as a mom is to scoop everyone up, cancel…
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Continue reading →: You’re Not Alone: A First Grader, a Big Brother, and a Brave StepI am going to step away from my more traditional posts this week, the ones that lean on quantitative research to answer the questions many of us are quietly carrying around. Instead, I’m bringing you a bit of homegrown research and a whole lot of lived experience. My family is…
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Continue reading →: Alone in the Kitchen: What Research Says About Kids Pulling AwayLast night my husband looked at me and asked, “What time do we have to pick up our oldest daughter?” I glanced at the clock and panicked. We were both standing in the kitchen at 8:30. If we were supposed to pick her up from dance, we were already 30…
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Continue reading →: Hug Them Now (Because Next Year They’ll Be Different)I was recently avoiding all of the housework and holiday work by scrolling through social media when I came across a video of children growing up, with this note scrolling across the bottom: The hardest part of motherhood? You don’t get to keep any version of them. Not the baby…
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Continue reading →: Why Handwriting Still Wins: What Pencils Do That Keyboards Can’tI remember sitting at my kitchen table, practicing my spelling words by writing them in shaving cream. It was messy, ridiculous, and fun. I loved it so much that I took the same activity into my classrooms twenty years later. It always seemed to work. Even now, when I need…
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Continue reading →: Proving It vs. Perfecting It: How Boys and Girls Tackle School DifferentlyMy children each approach school so differently. My daughter will sit with a test or a paper revision and go through it with a fine tooth comb. She looks for ways to improve, makes sure she understands the content or the error, and comes up with a plan to not…
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Continue reading →: Locking Apps and Dusting Baseboards: A Thanksgiving Break PlanAlthough it now seems like the week before Halloween catapults us straight into the holiday season, as we turn the corner on this week there is no denying we are officially in it. The conundrum of the holidays, at least for me, is that I somehow feel like I have…
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Continue reading →: Dr. Wagner’s Weekly Message: What pushed you to do that?I’m reading a fantastic book right now, 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People by David Yeager. I’m deep into Chapter 6, “Questioning.” I’ve listened to it on Audible so many times that my car probably knows the words by heart. Then I go back to my Kindle…
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