Every summer, parents worry about the reading slide. Will their children lose ground on math? Will the writing get rusty? Will September arrive to find everything they learned last year quietly leaking out of their heads? It is a real thing, and it is the slide everybody already knows to watch for. But there is […]
It’s raining. School is out or winding down for the day. Your middle grader has exhausted their usual options and has arrived in the kitchen to deliver the news: they are bored. Completely, desperately, nothing-to-do bored. The instinct, especially on a rainy afternoon with nowhere to be, is to fix it. Suggest something. Hand them […]
There’s a specific kind of sickness that hits hardest in February. Not sick enough to sleep all day, but definitely too sick for school. Your middle grader is home on the couch, alternating between complaining about being bored and insisting they feel fine enough to get back to their video games. Welcome to the sick […]