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This weekend all my kids were home and they surprised me after dinner with strains of ‘Happy Birthday’ sung as an elegant trifle was brought out. Our birthday
This week someone introduced me to another woman, mentioning that I had a special needs child. “No,” I responded, “I don’t have a special needs child. I
>>Hi. I am really on board with this educational concept of not pushing kids but practically speaking, how do you do math in this way?<<
We are so happy to be home from the hospital! Yirmiyahu is doing really well though he’s not quite back to himself and he has
Thank you to you all for your prayers for Yirmiyahu! The surgery went very well. It was a major surgery and it’s correspondingly a difficult
When Yirmiyahu was born, it was discovered that he had vesicoureteral reflux that has led to kidney damage. Sometimes this improves on its own but
This week I was sharing with dd19 some of my thinking about the development of intrinsic motivation, and why giving young children regular opportunities to choose their own
A reader asks: >>I’m wondering — what is your opinion on homeschooling just one child? My youngest daughter wants to go to school next year,
It’s a funny thing. Out of the many, many people who have asked my advice about parenting, no one has ever told me that their
This summer I had a vision of building a pergola for our very sunny front porch. But I was too busy to get this project off the
