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}; As a play-based preschool teacher, I make sure, every day, to have at least two opportunities for making art available to the kids, one indoors and one outdoors. Typically, the outdoor provocation offers the opportunity to get good and...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; We never gave our daughter chores to do around the house when she still lived with us. This runs against the current of most of the parenting counsel out there. Her school officially recommended it for all families. Even our pediatrician...
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}; When the two boys played alone, they tended toward the art table where they would chatter their way through works of art that involved action -- superheroes mostly. Or maybe they would claim a corner of the rug where they built a fort or...
Teacher Tom
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...