Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; "No climbing to the top!"When our daughter was in kindergarten, her school installed an amazing rope-and-steel climbing structure. The kindergartners were forbidden from climbing to the very top, which meant that adults were always...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; They say there are no stupid questions, but I beg to differ. We hear stupid questions almost every time adults and young children are together. For instance, a child is painting at an easel, exploring color, shape, and motion,...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; We were all afraid of Mr. Turner. He was the principal at Meadowfield Elementary in Columbia, SC, and, it was rumored, he had a wooden paddle in his office with "holes drilled in it" so he could swing it faster. Even as an...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; More often than not in our culture, when someone is talking about "success" we assume they are referring to either material wealth or the result of someone having achieved some sort of victory or prize. And often they are. Most of us are...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; I subscribed to The Atlantic for quite awhile, but recently let it expire when I decided to limit my consumption of "political news." I don't have the time or bandwidth. I'm too busy playing with children and reading books.That said,...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Several years ago, we had a scare while on a field trip. A boy, racing to the bus stop, attempted to get around one of the adults by shooting for a narrow gap between her and the roadway. While both his feet were off the ground, her hip...
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var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; We spent our holiday weekend in a nearby mountain village with a group of friends. On Friday evening we met at one person's home for food and drink. We then met the following morning for the charming local parade where we likewise...
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var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; For the past several years, I've been limiting my news consumption to about 5 hours of local news a week, usually "watched" while I'm preparing dinner. Yesterday, there was a story about a nearby town's preparations for the nation's...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; "Well, he won't do that again."We've all said, or at least thought it. And more often than not (but not always) we're right. Like when a child goofs around on the edge of a fountain on a cold day and falls in. We expect that unpleasant...