Family

I was invited to speak at the Clayton County PTA this weekend about parental involvement in the classroom for Parent Engagement Month. Based on feedback from the invitation, there’s a common guilty feeling from working parents who don’t feel like they’re as active in the classroom as they’d like to be. …

Before I could realize it, summer was over and I’d already tackled the back to school supply list. A.J. is going to a new school for first grade! Ten weeks of summer seem so daunting back on the last day of school. At that time, I’d only registered A.J. for one formal …

This will be our second school year where A.J.’s is enrolled in gifted classes. Thanks to parent-teacher meetings and detailed emails with his teachers, his first school year as a gifted student was smooth sailing.  I’m praying for similar success as he enters second grade. Here’s a look at the …

For summer weeks when A.J. didn’t attend camp, we’ve had a few challenges. He’s bored. I’m doing my best to get my social media, video and blogging work done. He’s watched his fair share of Disney Channel and played NBA basketball on my iPad. Then I remembered we’d received the Osmo …

Call the Guinness Book of World Records because I think I have a perfect entry that’s never been recorded: the earliest hour a child every complained “I’m bored” during the summer. While for some people a trip to Michaels or a craft store is relaxing – they give me the …