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  • Parents, Your Kids Are More Flexible Than You Are

    Parents, Your Kids Are More Flexible Than You Are0

    “I really want to do it. But I think will be so hard!” I said this to a fellow mother a few years ago. We were discussing my desire to move my son’s crib out of my bedroom and into the same room as his older sister. Her reply surprised me. “Maybe it will be

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  • Parents, You Can Sit This One Out

    Parents, You Can Sit This One Out2

    The website Scary Mommy is always on top of parenting trends, and its latest discovery is “sittervising.” The not-exactly-groundbreaking idea is for a parent to SIT while their kid plays, rather than feeling obligated to jump in and toss the ball, be the snowman, or praise every single shovelful of sand the child gets to

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  • Parents, Stop Doing Your Child’s Homework

    Parents, Stop Doing Your Child’s Homework0

    Parent or not, most adults have probably helped a child with his schoolwork at some point or another. The process can be rewarding, but also very frustrating, particularly when you as the adult can see the answer as plain as the nose on your face, but the child finds the subject clear as mud. At

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  • Parents, If We’re Going to Have Smart Government—Teach Your Kids Civics

    Parents, If We’re Going to Have Smart Government—Teach Your Kids Civics0

    In the fall of 2012, I excitedly began my senior year government class. I was about to sit through a course on our system of government while also watching it play out right before my eyes on its biggest stage during the 2012 election. Much to my chagrin, nobody else seemed even remotely as thrilled.

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  • Parents, Educators, Doctors Join Trump in New Push to Reopen Schools

    Parents, Educators, Doctors Join Trump in New Push to Reopen Schools0

    Dr. Melanie McGraw Piasecki is both a pediatrician and a mother of three who wants to see kids back in school after the COVID-19 lockdown that shuttered classrooms in the spring and is on the cusp of doing so this fall across the country. “My children did not have a particularly great experience in the

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  • Parents Want a Complete Overhaul of the Education System

    Parents Want a Complete Overhaul of the Education System2

    In the wake of COVID-19, people now overwhelmingly believe that the education system’s broader purpose needs to be rethought. This begins with a shift away from standardized testing, college prep and a one-size-fits-all model and toward personalized curricula, practical skills and subject mastery. A new Purpose of Education Index survey released by the Massachusetts-based national

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