"Why don't you ever write about our cheerleading?" Charlotte asked me the other day (after blog-stalking me until the wee hours late one night, but that's another other bottle of wine, as one of my dear friends is fond of saying).It's a fair question, actually. I write about a range of different … [Read more...]
Free-Range Fun
I was inspired by Jason's post about boredom, in which he refers to this article by Tim Kreider in the New York Times. The article, called "The Busy Trap" bemoans our modern culture of busyness - how it affects every aspect of our lives, including our children and their programming (or … [Read more...]
How Extracurricular Actitivies Help Students
Close your eyes and think about when you were in school. How many days do you really remember? Of those days, how many of them involve being taught fractions or pronouns? When I tried this experiment, I came up with about 2-dozen total, with not one being an English, Math, or French … [Read more...]