Study: Teacher, Parental Involvement Trump Peer Pressure
Even if your eye-rolling, back-talking teenagers don’t seem to listen to you, keep communicating with them as your influence is more important than relationships with peers, according to a new study...
View ArticleUpdate on D.C. Teacher Union Negotiations
UPDATE: Sorry to be the purveyor of bad news, but the “on-time” graduate rate of D.C. public school students has dipped below 50 percent, according to the Washington Post. I have been following...
View ArticleClueless teachers, clueless parents
I don’t usually write rant diaries, but yesterday was the first day of Sunday school for my kids, and I’m still shaking my head over a couple of things that happened. My younger son is almost four and...
View ArticleTuesday Morning Open Thread
What’s up? The Associated Press ran a trend story about young Americans bypassing Boston, New York and San Francisco to take jobs in China. Young professionals with strong English skills are in high...
View ArticleLate-Night Liberty: When the Kids Are Out of the House…
I found this blurb from the August edition of Parents magazine and thought it was a fun exercise. Complete this sentence: “As soon as the kids are out of the house I…” From Parents: …wash the poop off...
View ArticleHow To Get Kids To Clean Up
I think I am pretty good on keeping the kids on schedule. They eat at the same times every day, bathe at least every other day at 7:30 p.m., go to bed every day at 8 p.m.. Where I suck is cleanup. I...
View ArticleLate-Night Liberty: Random Factoids Edition
Vanity Fair and 60 Minutes recently released a poll with random, but fascinating poll results like how 1 in 10 people thought California should secede from the United States. In second place? Texas,...
View ArticleIf I Were An Inventor…
I smiled at this doodad in Japan. From the CrunchGear blog: A research laboratory at Japan’s Ritsumeikan University has developed a monitoring system for wet diapers that consists of a self-powered...
View ArticleAre you stoned, or just multitasking?
It’s a much studied fact that too much multitasking has the same effect on our I.Q. as a bong hit. It makes us stupid. And yet, life with young children can require, at times, an absurd, stuntman level...
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Tuesday Open Thread
Good morning! How are y’all enjoying our new (temporary) digs so far? Our baker baker posted this story on her facebook page and I couldn’t help but laugh. It’s Scary Mommy’s take on the whole “It gets...
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