Parental perspective on summer time, screen time, and making up time. GUEST COLUMN | by Niyoka McCoy As we steadily approach another school year, I am reminded of the day my daughter finished preschool. It was my first graduation as a parent, and I couldn’t have been prouder. I also couldn’t help but think about what was to come – in kindergarten, and in those long summer months before classes began again. My daughter had built up all this great momentum in preschool, and I couldn’t help but worry about how best to maintain it. I wanted nothing more than for her to hit the ground running in September. I soon realized that if that was going to happen, it...
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Homeschool Curriculum Buying Guide – What to Buy & Where Thanks to our sponsor Media Angels Membership site – where you can find K-12 Science Curriculum, novels, and resources for history and writing. First of all, there is no one perfect curriculum and believe me I’ve made mistakes. When my son was five I purchased a math curriculum and he was struggling so much, I decided to buy another one mid-year at someone’s recommendation. That too turned into a disaster. The best way to buy homeschool curriculum is to know what you are looking for. But before you do this, please listen to the past podcasts on the topic of curriculum. There I give you specific questions to think about...
Boswell bestsellers for the week ending August 6, 2022 Hardcover Fiction:1. All This Could Be Different, by Sarah Thankam Mathews (Register for August 11 virtual event here)2. Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus3. Upgrade, by Blake Crouch (Register for August 12 in-person event here)4. The Last White Man, by Mohsin Hamid5. Death Casts a Shadow, by Patricia Skalka6. Switchboard Soldiers, by Jennifer Chiaverini7. Horse, by Geraldine Brooks8. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabriel Zevin9. The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan10. The Rabbit Hutch, by Tess Gunty (Register for August 10 in-person event here) Our big debut, non-event category, this week is The Last White Man from Mohsin Hamid. From Ron Charles's rave review in The Washington Post: "More than...
Photo-Illustrations by Oliver MundayAs a therapist for children who are being processed through the American immigration system, Cynthia Quintana has a routine that she repeats each time she meets a new patient in her office in Grand Rapids, Michigan: She calls the parents or closest relatives to let them know the child is safe and well cared for, and provides 24-hour contact information.Leer este artículo en español.This process usually plays out within hours of when the children arrive. Most are teens who have memorized or written down their relatives’ phone numbers in notebooks they carried with them across the border. By the time of that initial call, their families are typically worried, waiting anxiously for news after having—in an act...
