Eric Jones posts

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Why shy, nerdy teenage guys struggle with dating in high school (and how parents can help) The drive home was quiet, the way ...

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What Does a Poor Education Do to a Child? A Teacher’s Perspective Marcus was eleven years old, sitting in my 6th grade ...

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When Your Teen Asks “Is Life Really Worth Living?”—A Teacher’s Honest Take The classroom was empty except f...

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The morning after her 18-month birthday, the living room floor looked like a toy store had sneezed. There was the singing rob...

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Should we wait to get pregnant until after a couple of vacations? What I told my friend They were stacking the coffee cups at...

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My degree is in English literature, and it took me about twelve years to admit what that actually meant. The moment that forc...

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How to Deal with a Child with a Huge Ego: What I Learned as a Teacher It was Thursday morning, and my sixth-grade students we...

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What Happens When Kids Miss the Basics? A Teacher Explains the Cost of a Poor Education The paper airplane landed on my desk,...

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Why My 10-Year-Old Was Exhausted: A Parent’s Look at Vitamins for Ages 7-14 My daughter Maya spent the better part of last Oc...

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What Should We Cut From the Science Curriculum? What a Science Teacher Actually Thinks It was a Tuesday, the kind where the p...