Parents, Teachers, There Is No Right Way Right Now

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Parents, Teachers, There Is No Right Way Right Now

…Many of us, especially parents and teachers are feeling tremendous pressure to make everything as capital-R right as we possibly can for the children in our lives. Why wouldn’t we? We love and respect the children and childhoods that are entrusted to us. It is literally and figuratively our job to give children consistency, security, and ensure they have everything they need to develop with the best chance of success and well-being.

But what do consistency, security, and development even mean in a life-changing crisis?…

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

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

“…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…”

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The Conflicted Mess of Real Learning

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The Conflicted Mess of Real Learning

“…Granted, I was seventeen and seventeen-year olds love to know better than adults by default, but I began to develop something more than adolescent self-righteousness, I started to feel conviction that these children deserved at least as much respect as we “grown ups” were paying the annual paper leprechauns. …”

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