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I have some news that may surprise you. The season we call fall is finished. Autumn is history. This is the year, you see, when about one quarter ...
Written with Ellen Utley For so many young people and their families September is a time associated with the invigorating feeling of setting off for a...
Can we see how this concern about forgetting is uppermost in the minds of young students as they enter into the Back To School Season? After all, everything in our culture is telling them to forget. Even memorials themselves are memorials that are at base memorials of forgetting.
Now that school is back in session, your family is probably once again experiencing the hectic hustle and bustle of day-to-day life. Pack your books, tie your shoes, don't forget your lunch. With the kids in school, we all tend to focus on every little thing at once. As a result, we tend to forget the most important part of our day -- practicing mindfulness.
Starting a new school year, for students of all ages, brings a new sense of purpose and opportunity. A new academic year welcomes new notebooks and ga...
Co-authored by DANIEL MOORE, manager of partner success at Edthena. A version of this post originally appeared in the Professional Development News of...
It's that time of year again, when children, families and teachers leave summer days behind and take up the rhythms of a new school year. Children wai...
Girls, as you head back to class and navigate those tricky middle school halls, keep these words in mind. Chant them like a mantra. Make them your screensaver. Whatever works. We do not ever lower our standards. We raise our hands.
Here is what I wish I'd told my son on his first day of school:
Today's parents are flooded with well-meaning advice, but it's not always practical or easy to implement.
Always remember my fellow moms, someone who is a bitch even one time is not worth staying friends with or even spending five minutes in conversation together. We really all just need to mind our own business and children.
A new school year is upon us and the streets are filled with crowds of eager fresh-faces hurrying to college classes in crisp new fall wardrobes, $5 l...
My son and I read "The Kissing Hand" as we curled up together... our last night before he became a kindergarten student. I watched him drift off to sleep, knowing in the morning things would be different.
The summer is over, vacations have ended and the leaves are changing. Fall has finally arrived and it is time for students to return to school. After ...
I did not realize I was trans until long after high school, but I went through middle and high school with an unrelenting sense of discomfort -- with myself, with the world, with the idea of living inside my body. There were many days that I didn't believe I would find my way through that pain.
