The Emotional Requirements of Parenthood
“One forgets about parenthood. The on and on-ness of it.” –Violet, the Dowager Countess. I know I’m a little late to the game, but I’ve been catching up on Downton Abbey before too many…
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I Choose Long Division
This little exchange from Mr. Holland’s Opus has been running through my head this week: Principal: Each school in the district has been asked to submit proposals on ways of reducing costs…
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It’s Share the Love week at our studio. [youtube]https://youtu.be/Q7K2NitQ3uM[/youtube] Here are just a few of the reasons I love Kindermusik at Song of the Heart studios: ♥ I love having…
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Passion for Learning
I have been learning about sketchnoting lately. Sketchnoting is the art of taking notes with pictures. They don’t have to be perfect pictures, but they need to make sense to their creator.…
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Oh, the Places You’ll Go
The other day, because of some research I’m doing on work-related matters, I found myself listening to an Asperkids podcast by Jennifer O’Toole, an author and the creator of the Asperkids…
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Controlling the Impulse
Kindermusik stop and go songs are among the favorites in our family. The anticipation builds as my kids and I wonder when the music will stop, and we laugh when we get it right—and wrong. I…
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Growth
Carol Dweck keeps popping up in all the things I’m learning, as a person, an educator and a mother. Dweck is a motivation researcher who has published her findings in a book called Mindset…
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Creativity
A friend asked me the other day, as we were talking about our daughters’ school performances, “Do we really care what Henri Matisse’s math scores were?” In other words, how do we measure…
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This week I attended a screening of the documentary Most Likely to Succeed . It is a fascinating look at one particular high school in California that is taking a radically different…
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