Standardized Testing: Love it? Hate it? Not sure about it? California public school students in Grades 3-8 and 11 participate in annual standardized testing called the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced or SBAC, for short). Here are some facts that...
Hand over any of these cute, spring-themed activity sheets to your kids to give yourself a moment of peace while they color, connect the dots, complete a maze, or do a word search. Thanks to our friends at the...
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I intended to order cordless blinds for my daughter's room but accidentally ordered the corded kind. My husband's eyes widened when he saw them. As a little boy, a...
One of my guilty pleasures is watching “The Real Housewives of New Jersey.” I grew up in Jersey and even though my childhood in the Garden State looked nothing like the lives portrayed on the show, the casts' accents,...
Toddlers are amazing. They love learning about the world and everything they see. They want to help and be involved in even the smallest everyday tasks and seeing them immersed in what they are doing at the moment is...
I was walking into Safeway the other day and overheard a mom dragging her wily toddler along, commenting, “Come on, slowpoke, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go!” It was innocent enough, but something in her tone of voice sounded...
After I told my husband that I was pregnant with our second (surprise) baby, my mind immediately went to telling the kids. We'd crossed this bridge before, telling my then eight year old step-daughter that I was pregnant with...
When my daughter started elementary school, I was one of those bright-eyed parents who wanted to learn all they could to make my daughter’s school career amazing—for her and for me. So, when the first PTA meeting of the...
I have a five-year-old daughter who just started kindergarten. She is amazing. She has confidence and optimism. She is really a joy to be around.
Last week, I was giving her a bath, and as she was getting out and...
We've been building a kindness chain at home for the past two years. It started as a way to create awareness for my preschoolers, in all their ego-centric glory, of the many chances they have to do kind acts...
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As families prepare to gather around the table this Thanksgiving, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) reminds home chefs to keep safety top...
