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No Holding Back! The Argument for Sending Four Year Olds to Kindergarten (a.k.a. No “Red-Shirting”)

Posted in learning, school on Sep 27th, 2011

After reading this article in Sunday’s New York Times the other day, by Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt, about “redshirting” kindergarteners (that is, keeping them back a year if their birth date falls near the cut-off date, leaving them “young” for their class), I did one of those silent victory-arm-pump things in my kitchen: I [...]

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Grading the Parents: How Much School Involvement is Enough (or Too Much)?

Posted in education, learning, mom bloggers, school on May 23rd, 2011

A long while ago, I wrote a post about how much more involved parents of my generation are in our kids’ schooling and schools than my parents — well meaning as they were — ever were in mine. As my kids have progressed through more school since then, it’s naturally remained on my mind. Just [...]

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Kindergarten Bullies: Does it Start with The Parents?

Posted in bullying, discipline, other parents, parenting, school on Oct 14th, 2010

So I was just reading this article in the Sunday NY Times this morning, by Pamela Paul, about the phenomenon of bullying drifting down into younger and younger ages. Like kindergarten. Of course, bullying is a huge topic right now, given the rise in attention paid to the tragic stories of bullying leading to suicide [...]

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He is Me: Parenting The Kid Who’s the Most Like Me

Posted in family life, humor, parenting, school, summer, Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2010

My second son, James, is bewildering and bedeviling in shifting measures, like all offspring, but I have been feeling for a while lately that, while he’s as capable as his big brother of winning or crushing my heart, I understand him better. To put it in actorly terms, I have flashes of brilliance and insight, [...]

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Kids (and parents?!) in Kindergarten

Posted in school on Sep 22nd, 2009

My mom recently told me a funny (well, not funny-ha-ha, more like funny-hmmmmm) story about the time she got a peek into my younger brother’s kindergarten classroom. Seems that one day, my brother missed the bus, so my mom drove him. After leaving him inside the school to be walked to his class by the [...]

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