(Editor’s note: please welcome Rebecca’s suggestions for lessons in morality that we can all use. Thanks, Rebecca!) Every parent should groom his or her kid into a sensible and responsible human being in whom virtues far outweigh the vices. Parents should initiate imparting moral lessons to their kids from a very young age as it [...]

Editor’s note: please welcome Jessica with her post on sign language for the little ones. Thanks, Jessica! Whenever you see your baby making any sound or movement you feel excited, don’t you? Many people think that they are meaningless sounds or gestures. But those sounds and movements actually convey some meaning. Those are the signals [...]

Words are powerful tools. As a parent, I need to keep that thought at the forefront of my mind. We don’t realize sometimes how much weight our children assign to the words that come out of our mouths. Just a little bit of disapproval can really impact a little boy’s heart. On the flip side, [...]

The Mercenary gets annoyed with me – routinely – because I insist on working through problems step by step whenever he gets stuck on things in school. Drives him crazy! He is a person who hates systematic approaches to things, and would much rather just stare at a page and wait for the answer to [...]

Okay.  When we left off, I’d just met and married the Best Man on the Planet.  Hubby himself.  We were wed in July of 1995.  I had been teaching by then for hmmm, 4 years I think.  I was working once again with the EI (Emotionally Impaired) kids, in a middle school setting.  I’d just [...]