School Years

I’m heading into my 10th year of teaching third grade. To say I love my job is an understatement. I love seeing that spark in a child’s eye when they “get it.” I love watching children learn to love...

Dear Teacher, Just like that, summer is over. As we are preparing to get our kids back on a schedule, reinstating a bedtime, counting and organizing uniforms, packing backpacks, gathering school supplies, switching from summer chaos to school year routine,...

Disclosure :: This post is sponsored by Touchstone.  Facing Bullies as the Parent of a Special Needs Child As summer comes to a close, and we wave goodbye to sleeping past 7 a.m., the upcoming school year shifts to the top...

When your child goes to kindergarten, they are beginning their journey at a school for potentially the next seven years. Our children spend roughly seven hours a day at school, five days a week; that is about 1,062 hours....

The term redshirting comes from college athletics, where coaches "hold back" athletes from participating on the team until they have better developed skills so that they can extend their period of player eligibility and be more successful players. The...

Oh, man. I miss chickenpox. This may just be anecdotal, but it seems to me that since modern medicine created the chickenpox vaccine, we have been dealing with a new litany of bugs that I have zero memory of...

We have four kids. We love it. In the beginning, we really didn't think about all that comes with that. All of those beautiful, squishy babies, some planned and some a great surprise, we were just living the young...

Summer is finally here, and this teacher couldn’t be more excited. I’ve packed up my classroom, I’ve mailed home the final report card, and now I get to sit, for about a minute. Summer is our favorite season over...

Ten months y'all ... 166 days of actual school has passed (why does it seem like 2,000) and we are headed to home plate with the countdown!! Our school has three days left. Thhreeeee leeeeeeft!! I think I can,...

I am fortunate to have a very attentive family and for that, I am grateful. But, sometime during Kael's second year of life, I noticed that he was getting particular feedback from a few members of our large family. "Why don't...