I can't think of specifically when it happened, but more and more often, when my daughter speaks? Whenever she says anything? She's adopted? A sense of upspeak? And it's making me bananas. I mean, it is rampant. She: Mummy? Me: Yes, my peach. She: The other day? At school? This girl? In my … [Read more...]
Welcome Back Homework Blues
A consistent homework strategy is something we struggle with in our household. We have tried various forms of incentive programs, better service delivery, more robust and detailed calendars and schedules, pens with smelly ink, pencils that look like giraffes, enhanced complementary computer time, … [Read more...]
Kindergarten Baby
This baby, the one who stretched my body more than the others, and who has also stretched the limits of my patience and broadened the limits of my love, she went to kindergarten today. She was so excited, so ready. And I was too. But then I looked back at this photo, remembering the blur of … [Read more...]
The Fourth.
Here we go, fourth grade... I walked him to school at the ungodly-post-summer-vacation hour of 7:45 am, and filed into the gymnasium with the other third and fourth graders. I watched him scan the room for familiar faces - friends he'd seen only sporadically over the break, and I saw them … [Read more...]
Best Foot Forward
This past Saturday I spent the majority of the day in the boys' room purging. Closets. Dressers. Under the beds (gross). I wanted a clear idea of what, if anything, they needed for back to school clothes. I was able to clear out 3 garbage bags of throw out or donation items. I was relieved … [Read more...]
Teaching Tolerance
Scooby Doo. Franklin. Extraordinary Animals. More Scooby. This is our usual range of nighttime reading before Will gets a back scratch and drifts off to sleep to dream about...you guessed it, Scooby Doo. Last night, I decided to inject a little something different. We read the National Geographic … [Read more...]
smarty pants
I was a bit of that crazy 'every moment is a teachable moment' mom with a fat Webster's Dictionary on our breakfast table every morning when my kids were little. We would discuss a word a day. I would write it on this little blackboard and then we would talk about what it … [Read more...]
I Want A Moustache
My favourite thing about kids is the randomness that comes out of their mouths. I would love to get inside their little heads one day to see where all their thoughts come from. They don’t think like we do, for example, as an adult we think logically: 2 + 2 = 4. A kid thinks 2 + a unicorn = tennis … [Read more...]
What happened to all those pennies?
The pennies are gone. Other than the handful you may still have wedged in between the couch cushions or lost in the abyss (aka the purse) somewhere, they are no longer wanted...although students from across Canada would tell you they are still needed. In fact, more than 3000 schools and thousands of … [Read more...]
Last Day Lunch Lament
Last day of school! Last day of making lunches! Based on the groundswell of social media lament, it seems I am not alone in my celebration of no more lunch making. Today’s last lunch was pretty weak. It consisted of the following: Two plums (starting off well!), two pepperettes (uh oh), … [Read more...]
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