The Dark Side of Graduate School
It wasn’t that long ago that you could get by with a high school diploma. Now, a bachelors seems to be the minimum. It also wasn’t that long ago that a bachelors could be gained in 4 years. While times have been declining in recent studies, the “4 year” degree has taken longer than that [...]
First Day of School
It finally happened, and on the first day of school! No one picked up my first grader from school. For two years, I have shared driving-to-pre-school duties with our babysitter while I worked part-time. When my daughter started kindergarten last year, we also participated in a parent carpool two days a week, which made scheduling [...]
Yikes – lice!
In the nursery, we dealt with rotavirus and the ubiquitous runny nose. In preschool, it was mostly colds, with a little bit of hand, foot, and mouth disease thrown in to mix things up. Since my oldest daughter started kindergarten this year, we have a new contagion to worry about – lice!!
OFM #71: What’s good for Mom is good for the kids
Cry it out for the last time… we swear (all thanks to Monster Cookies). Tom thinks that Canadians are too nice. If it works for you does that make it OK? Um… no. Listening to your child means discerning between what they “need” and “want.” What happens after 7 years of marriage? Tom lets out [...]
Gifted – what does that mean????
My daughter is in kindergarten, and was recently referred for an initial assessment for eligibility to the gifted program at her elementary school. The screening is called Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT). I asked her how she liked the first evaluation, and she said she was a little bit shy, but that she knew the [...]
OurFirstMarriage #46: Schools, Chicken, and Immersion
Private vs. Public schools. Is Jacksonville a bastion of racism and segregation? Tom weighs in. There is a school named after Nathan Bedford Forrest here – that should tell you something. Tanel and Tom are trying to figure out which school to send Punkalicious and what are the names of the various schools. Tom and [...]
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