June 28, 2019

T’was The Month Before Kindergarten: Supporting Children with Big Transitions and Big Behaviors

June 28, 2019/ Micah Card

“…Over the next few years I started to see, every year around summertime, pre-kindergarten children just...got like that. The calmest, most predictable children would have moments of pure unadulterated push-back against their care-takers and friends, strange bouts of anxiety before school or during drop-off, or sometimes they’d have accidents again after being toilet-learned for years. I started to call this phenomenon kindergarten feelings…”

April 18, 2019

What Does "Kindergarten Readiness" Really Mean?

April 18, 2019/ Micah Card

Rather than rote academics, your child will be better served, dare I say most ready, if they arrive at kindergarten equipped with strong social-emotional and intellectual dispositions. At the basest level your child will need to come into kindergarten knowing how to be away from home and participate a school community…

Micah Card

Micah Card is a writer and educator in Los Angeles, CA.

About NML:

No Magic Lecture is a blog about teaching, learning, and living alongside young children, though the principles here apply to all learners (including you!). Creating a meaningful life with children is about holding a vision and seeing it through together. The phrase “No Magic Lecture” means there is no one perfect thing that must make or break a moment, a behavior, a child, family, or classroom. It’s a reminder, reprieve, and an invitation. Welcome.

About Micah:

Micah Card is a writer and educator in Santa Cruz, CA. She believes in the power of children, thinking deeply and critically, and in reminding ourselves that the point of all this is to grow.

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