The easiest question in the world for any teacher or daycare provider to answer is “What do you do with the students?” In fact, ask this during any school tour and in response, most programs will slide you a glossy card stock sheet of paper containing a bullet point list and cute pictures of happy […]
25 years ago, the six-acre, forested floodplain behind my school held some 40-50 Eastern White Pines. Each tree measured three to four feet in diameter, rising arrow- straight, nearly 75 feet in the air, towering high above the canopy set by Aspen, Hickory and other hardwoods. Within a few years, another section of forest 500
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Picture it: Sicily, 1912, a young Sophia skips in sepia tones along a narrow street toward her Nona. Suddenly, she snags her toe on a loose cobblestone, sending her tumbling. Sophia looks up from the dusty ground, momentarily stunned and searching for some kind of feedback upon which to anchor her reaction. Nona, her face
Our bodies tell us what we need and what we do not. Sometimes the message is not loud enough and other times we simply are not listening. We knowingly do unhealthy things, but we anticipate the negative effects and rationalize the results to concoct our own message. Then there are things, which we had no
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Somewhere in the 1970’s the phrase “information age” was uttered for the first time. Someone looked at a Commodore 64 and thought “The future is now!” We can all look back now on those simple-minded, simple living, happy people and laugh at how naive they were. Philistines. Back then, information was exchanged through relatively balanced,
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It’s How You Think Parenting has a bit of a PR problem. For starters, everyone calls it a “job” but since most adults prefer to avoid work, this is a stumble right out of the gate. Then there is the compounding glut of conflicting advice, which has become a running joke on social media. Even
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Before anxiety becomes a condition, it shows up as an emotion. Its triggers are myriad and its presence can wreak havoc; making the unknown feel unsafe and the uncomfortable feel unmanageable. Now, anxiety has come for our children and we are the one’s holding the door open. In today’s post, I am going to focus
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A man was walking on the beach one day and noticed a boy who was reaching down, picking up a starfish and throwing it in the ocean. As he approached, he called out, “Hello! What are you doing?” The boy looked up and said, “I’m throwing starfish into the ocean”. “Why are you throwing starfish
What’s the best way to respond when your child comes home complaining that Timmy pushed him again? It is a more difficult question than it seems and it is far easier to get it wrong than to get it right. Fortunately, there is a rule that applies regardless of the situation; suspend judgement and focus
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I\’m not a big fan of these generation labels, but technically, I\’m Generation X. I don\’t recall all the stereotypes, but most of them probably apply to me. Still, for all those defining characteristics, my generation wasn\’t all that different from my parent\’s. The Baby Boomers. Most importantly, the space between our generations was narrow enough that they could rely on
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