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Kindergarten Teachers Turn Babies into Big Kids

Dear kindergarten teacher, Nine months ago, I walked my firstborn into your kindergarten classroom, uncertain of what the year ahead would…

I’ve got a birthday coming up. The big 3-9. An age that can no longer be classified as “mid-30s” and is one slippery year away from the…

I thought I would be more sad than this. I walked with my daughter to school this morning. I say with instead of to, because at age 11, long after…

The words disgusted me when I read them: “I waited for you after the game, but no show. Probably a good thing for you! I will see you someday.”…

It’s no secret we’re expecting more of our elementary students these days when it comes to academics. “Kindergarten is the new…

School is so exciting to you right now, little one. You are unsure about what is to come but the unknown allows you to imagine a world that is fun…

“Go play outside!” This was my favorite and most frequent homework assignment from my days inside the classroom. As an elementary teacher, I…

We are at the park. I offer to push him on the swing. “It’s okay Mommy, I can do it.” And he pumps his little legs as hard as he can, climbing…

I remember taking our first son to kindergarten, doing the math in my head, and realizing we’d be at this elementary school for the next 11 years.…