Just two days after our kindergartner had a meltdown getting on the school bus, he acted up in school and received a “red lily pad” – this is the worst of three levels on the all-important green/yellow/red “lily pad” behavioral scale. From what my wife has been able to glean of the situation, he pushed [...]
Our three oldest went back to school this week. The first day had its share of bumps in the road. I barely slept the night before for fear that I had forgotten to fill out one form or another or that I would forget to pack a snack. Everything went off without a hitch: boys [...]
Interesting… A recent study published in the journal Science shows that birth order influences IQ scores in boys/men. It’s not a big difference (just two points separate first born men from men with older siblings), but still… Please don’t tell my oldest brother about this! And definitely don’t tell Son #1 – he’d never let [...]
This article is a guest blogger submission from They Call Me Mommy. If you like what you see, why not subscribe to her RSS feed? Dani Shapiro, a writer and mother, wrote a piece on the Huffington Post the other day about having to miss her 8 year old son’s school play despite her best [...]
It’s 4:22 am and I’m here waiting to sign up Son #4 for preschool. I’m #23 on the unofficial sign-up list. A volunteer is expected to arrive at 5 am to take the official sign ups with registration starting at 8 am. This approach was meant to stave off any “camping out” in the parking [...]
Whatever happened to the first day of school jitters? Our boys slept like logs the night before they went back to school, and had no butterflies in their bellies the morning of. They seemed properly excited and handled everything with grace and dignity. In fact, they were “cool as cucumbers.” This is very different from [...]
The other night the boys and I had a grand old time with some dry ice that I brought home from work, and I’ve got the pictures to prove it… We started out small, just splashing some water on it and watching it “smoke.” We also melted a chunk so the kids could see why [...]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last six years, you’ve heard of the No Child Left Behind Act. While the Act is built on earlier legislation that sought to provide additional federal funding for schools in poor communities, it now includes federal mandates regarding annual school assessments, staff qualifications, assessments at the [...]
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