How to Talk to Children About Reopening Schools (or Not Reopening)
Somehow it’s late July, which means some of our kids only have a few weeks to go back to class – or not. School districts […]
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Somehow it’s late July, which means some of our kids only have a few weeks to go back to class – or not. School districts […]
Continue reading »A couple of months after the start of the pandemic, my 9-year-old son looked at me and said, “Maybe I’ll take up cooking.” He helped […]
Continue reading »Usually the choice is quite simple: children either go to school to study or are homeschooled. There is usually at least one of these two […]
Continue reading »I’m still looking forward to the moment when the image of the school that will look this fall will change from damn gloomy to something, […]
Continue reading »According to Forbes magazine , US student loan debt jumped to $ 1.56 trillion, spread across 45 million borrowers. With a raging pandemic and more […]
Continue reading »It can be difficult for any child (or an adult, to be honest) to grasp all the changes that we have had to make to […]
Continue reading »High school students this year did not have full graduation experience this year. In many cases, they missed the last few months of school, and […]
Continue reading »The difference between fact and opinion is relevant these days. And in recent years, it has become increasingly clear that this is a difficult concept […]
Continue reading »TED, the people behind the iconic TED Talks, are inviting anyone who recently graduated to upload their own TED Talk graduations to the platform on […]
Continue reading »As the end of the school year approaches and the long summer months approach, I am often asked two questions: Has my son learned everything […]
Continue reading »Every summer, Girls Who Code offers a Summer Immersion Program to help girls learn to apply computer science concepts to personal projects. While this is […]
Continue reading »Most personal graduation ceremonies from high school and college have been canceled this year due to the stay-at-home order. Michelle Obama will host an online […]
Continue reading »In addition to losing normal social life, disrupting classroom routines, and canceling graduation celebrations, many high school and high school students (and even some sophomores) […]
Continue reading »Most of us have been at home with our children for at least a month. My kids have been home since March 6 (but who’s […]
Continue reading »As an avid traveler, it is very difficult for me to be stuck at home right now without any real place to go or travel […]
Continue reading »Our most theatrical children can get tired of the simple one-on-one and puppet shows they put on in the living room. Maybe they played a […]
Continue reading »Being at home more often and the pandemic in general have changed many of our habits. Maybe you’re taking an Ivy League online course, or […]
Continue reading »In the days when kids did go to classes to learn, Netflix made most of its educational documentaries free for teachers who wanted to stream […]
Continue reading »Starting Monday, your kids can enjoy weekly virtual stories with former First Lady Michelle Obama. Obama has partnered with PBS Kids and Random House to […]
Continue reading »The National Air and Space Museum currently houses over 38,640 pages of material covering Sally Ride’s career as a physicist, astronaut, and educator. There is […]
Continue reading »Although the New York Museum of Modern Art is now closed to the public, its virtual doors are open in the form of several free […]
Continue reading »If you’ve always wanted to go to Harvard, now might be the right time: the university offers free access to 64 different online courses to […]
Continue reading »Understandably, parents often convey this homeschooling situation ( I still refuse to call what we are doing now “homeschooling”). In my tapes in social networks […]
Continue reading »Dyson engineers want to know: Are your kids ready for a challenge ? Well, they may not have been there before, but they have been […]
Continue reading »Emails are coming to my inbox fast and furious: PR experts are offering this comment from a homeschooling expert or this homeschooling program to parents […]
Continue reading »When my son asked me yesterday afternoon to help him with math in third grade, my first impulse was to slowly back out of the […]
Continue reading »Homeschooling is proving to be a challenge for almost everyone involved in the coronavirus pandemic, but this new educational reality is especially harsh for one […]
Continue reading »The excess screen time is now largely given. We all do our best to work from home and help our kids complete online learning assignments […]
Continue reading »Dove Pilki, author and illustrator of the children’s book series Captain Cowards and Dogman, is like most of us stuck at home. So he teams […]
Continue reading »The poems that we read over and over again in childhood can stay with us for the rest of our lives. April is National Poetry […]
Continue reading »If you ask a child, any child, what is their favorite part of the school day, you will probably get one of two answers: break […]
Continue reading »Now that many of us are ( damn it looking) a week and a half of physical distancing – that is, trapped in a house […]
Continue reading »As I write this, I am personally on Day Two of our temporary-but-we-don’t-know- how temporary school closure. For those of you in the same boat, […]
Continue reading »With schools across the country closing and parents trying to either work from home or seek childcare, this can easily be seen as one big […]
Continue reading »At nine, my son and his friends most often crave two things: more independence and more time to hang out. We are also halfway between […]
Continue reading »We like to say that raising a child takes a village, but sometimes this village looks rather sparsely populated. We often do not live in […]
Continue reading »These days I have a certain pattern in the evenings. I am taking my son out of extracurricular care. I’m glad to see him; he’s […]
Continue reading »A few months ago, my son came home from school and asked if he could play another new video game that a friend told him […]
Continue reading »I first heard about the Your Parenting Mojo podcast on another parenting podcast: One Bad Mother . OBM is my favorite because they’re basically two […]
Continue reading »Raising a child with an identified learning disability is a frequent and ongoing advocacy exercise. And perhaps one of the most confusing things these parents […]
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