Clean socks are a privilege, not a right
Despite the controversy and the big unknowns when it comes to the true effect on our brains that living in an electronic soup has, I firmly believe in technology and that our children need to understand and be comfortable with the developments in tech and a technological lifestyle. Not all kids come from families […]
Yep…Tara is dropping out of preschool. She has flunked the school system before she even started in it. How will she ever get into a good college now? 🙂 This has been quite the hassle to deal with for me. I have a fear of quitting. I was and still am the biggest […]
My life line has always had a big mark in it that indicates the time my mother and I made the move from Scotland to Canada. It sometimes feels like two different lives, my childhood in a land far far away and the life here and now. The people involved feel so different – that […]
This past Wednesday Amanda Todd of Port Coquitlam, B.C. ended her own life because of bullying she faced. The local media, quite rightly, is asking serious questions about how this could have happened and how we as a society should deal with it. As an elementary teacher in a Metro Vancouver school district for 16 […]
As I sit here, the ten year old is upstairs entertaining Tara. He is “allegedly” sick. He claimed a sore throat and feeling barfy. I don’t believe him, but yet here he is and not at school. I wasn’t ready for a big fight this morning, but that is not a good enough excuse for […]
Thanks to Twitter, I was very fortunate to meet and share my story with the people behind You ARE Loved. I had an amazing telephone conversation with their Director of Education, Dr. Greg Smith who explained in a way that made sense and didn’t overwhelm me about the signs and signals that will let you […]
We had a fun evening at a friends house last night. They have three girls….I am so numb to noise and chaos that I only later realized that we had calmly got through play and dinner with 6 children in the house. 5 being girls. One being not even one. In an earlier life […]
Many people think babies are tough….yes you are new to the game and so are they and they don’t sleep and they cry and they poop and you barely have time to shower…..but wait for the school years….as soon as your kids is hitting the preschool things get crazy and you turn into an Event […]
Granted, it is a bit early in the school year….we have only had the brief parent/teacher interviews so far for Caitlyn starting Grade one and Adam in Grade three…but I am very curious about what the mid year report cards will reveal for the kids. Being that I have an 8 year old boy who […]
