Dear Elementary PTA President (a.k.a. Superhero in Mom Jeans – or Dad Sneakers), Schools wouldn’t be a community without you and we need strong communities to help raise resilient, happy kids. Thank you for stepping up. Without your efforts to…
Remember Harold Kushner’s best-selling book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People? Sometimes those “people” are our children. It would be wonderful if we lived in a state of nirvana but, unfortunately, we have to function in the real world…
Recently, my cousin was telling me about her sixth grade son, Tom, who was being excluded. It seemed to start all of a sudden. A big group of “friends” started to go to Wendy’s after school but would make a…
Internet Safety! Horrors! Where do we begin? Recently, I noticed a few basic disconnects when it comes to elementary school-aged children and teaching Internet Safety basics. There’s an information gap between school and home. Most schools now have a computer…
The Phoebe Prince story still has me reeling. And unfortunately it’s not the first suicide of a young teen that has had me perplexed, horrified and saddened. It’s so preventable… but where do we start? I have had two very…