[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] You’re stupid. You’re selfish. Grow up and quit acting like a child. Three statements I’ve heard so many times in my life I’ve begun to believe them, even repeat them to myself. Who am I? I’m nobody special, nobody you would remember in a crowd of […]
Education
Rocket Math (or Why Homework Sucks)
By Gina Sampaio of Sister Serendip So, uh . . . you got kids? Do they go to school? Are they old enough to have homework? Do they have . . . Rocket Math? Or Mad Minutes? Or some other kind of name that attempts to disguise a timed (read: stressful […]
Graduating to Mainstream: A Letter to My Son with Autism
By Rebecca Beck of Orthodox Sunflower Son, I cannot believe the time has come that you’re graduating special ed school. Has it really been 3 years since we made the tough decision to pull you out of mainstream school? I remember how much we agonized over whether it was the […]
What College Freshmen Would Say If They Were Honest
Ahhhh, college. Such a great time in many young adults’ lives. A time of learning. A time of making lifelong friends. A time of getting wasted and making terrible decisions. I maintain to this day that I would be a professional college student if living in the dorms, hanging […]
Why I Don’t Care That We Can’t Have Cupcakes at School
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Gina Sampaio of Sister Serendip Our school has what some may refer to as an insanely strict (while others may call it incredibly progressive) food policy for classroom parties. The rules go something like this: in a nutshell—no, wait, can’t have nuts, Sophia B. is […]
This Worries Me Most About My Son Starting Kindergarten
My five year-old son is about to start a giant milestone: grade school. Mainly because of his August birthday, he will be entering junior kindergarten. I don’t doubt the decision to put my son in junior kindergarten. My husband and I, alongside our son’s preschool teachers, spent months discussing the […]
The Infamous Back-to-School Teacher Nightmare
It’s August, fellow teachers. We all know what that means. Back-to-school nightmares. To get us all properly in the spirit, I’ve taken the liberty of combining all of my most hellish sleeping moments into one terrifying nightmare. Warning: the following story contains frightening depictions of classroom settings and occasional foul […]
4 Freedoms After Your Youngest Starts School
By Gizelle Arriola of Dearest Mommy1 The first day of school for your little one can be quite daunting, to say the least. My baby is coming up on her first day of full day kindergarten. Once my youngest starts school, it will be the first time my little girl has been […]