My 12-Year-Old Wanted to Quit Basketball: What I Did About Fear vs
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My 12-Year-Old Wanted to Quit Basketball: What I Did About Fear vs. Quitting We were sitting in the parking lot after practic...
Family Education
Grandparents Started Sending My 3-Year-Old a Letter Every Week — Here’s What It’s Teaching Her
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Grandparents Started Sending My 3-Year-Old a Letter Every Week — Here’s What It’s Teaching Her The envelope is a ...
How we helped our son find his confidence again after a bad school year
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How we helped our son find his confidence again after a bad school year The report card had been in his backpack for three da...
Our dining room table was covered in math worksheets and orange peel when my son looked up from his tablet with that particular expression I’ve learned to recognize—half pleading, half conspiratorial
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Our dining room table was covered in math worksheets and orange peel when my son looked up from his tablet with that particul...
What Is Education For
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What Is Education For? What I Keep Learning as a Teacher and Parent The question came from a boy in the third row, halfway th...
When my wife and I found out we were expecting, the first argument we had wasn’t about money, sleep, or where my mother-in-law would stay
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When my wife and I found out we were expecting, the first argument we had wasn’t about money, sleep, or where my mother-in-la...
Why Can’t My 6-Year-Old Remember What He Learned—or Tell Me About His Day
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Why Can’t My 6-Year-Old Remember What He Learned—or Tell Me About His Day? I pulled up to the pickup line and watched m...
Two Under Two: What I Learned About Parenting a Toddler and a Baby at the Same Time
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Two Under Two: What I Learned About Parenting a Toddler and a Baby at the Same Time The baby is finally latched, and I’m reac...
Finding White Low-Heel Shoes for Flower Girls Ages 6–10: What Worked for Us
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Finding White Low-Heel Shoes for Flower Girls Ages 6–10: What Worked for Us The last time I took my daughter to buy shoes, sh...
Is Homework a Waste of Time
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Is Homework a Waste of Time? What Happens When You Stop Fighting the Math Sheet At 6:40 on a Tuesday, my son was chewing the ...