Parenting

ChatGPT entered my house on the wings of a confusing and quite lengthy quadratic equation courtesy of my college-age son. I could hear his frustration through his bedroom door in the form of expletives. Later […]

New Year’s resolutions can be a dreaded idea for children, especially older kids. I have always enjoyed making goals for the new year and have learned a lot about effective goal setting. I like finding […]

I will admit that I love the holidays, and as a preschool teacher for many years, this time of the season provided its own curriculum. Families were encouraged to bring in their unique traditions to […]

Fresh out of college, my first teaching experience was with the Colorado Preschool Program, established to provide affordable preschool for underserved populations, encouraging school success and, in part, identifying red flags that indicate possible learning […]

There continues to be much out of our personal control these days and, as parents, with a public health issue defining our daily lives in such random ways, this can be infuriating. What can we […]

It is not a new subject for me to write about smart online behavior for kids as well as us adults who serve as examples for them. After some of my articles were published, I […]

Most of us in Colorado are rejoicing in the freedoms that vaccination has offered us after  surviving a crazy year. The future is definitely looking brighter, yet it is not as if those challenges we […]

During particular conversations, I frequently hear the response, “there’s nothing you can do about it,” regarding not only concerning national political issues, but very often about deeply local issues. What bothers me when people say […]