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Waiting Games
I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom. - Bob Hope Waiting can try the patience of the most even tempered adults. If you have to wait with...
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The Comeback Kid
There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time. - Anne Lamott Rewarding but challenging, comebacks can be difficult to come by when you are in a...
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Parent-Teacher Conversations
Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other’s participation in the life...
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Say What?
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen. - Stephen Covey Most parents, particularly with...
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Results from NBC Parent Toolkit’s New Parent Survey
This week, NBC Education Nation’s Parent Toolkit released the results from a “State of Parenting” survey they conducted in partnership with Pearson and Princeton Survey Research Associates...
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Cultivating Compassion In Our Kids
How do we, as parents, help our kids experience and develop compassion? It’s a concern of mine as I look around me and notice my family’s eyes glued to screens and those activities encroaching on my...
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On NBC’s Parent Toolkit –“The Most Important Relationship to Build This Year”
What is the most important relationship to build as the school year starts? On NBC’s Parent Toolkit blog today, check out my article. Here’s how it begins… “Hi, Mrs. Miller!” I exclaimed as I bumped...
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Parents as Servant Leaders
“It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.” – Albert Einstein Most leaders acquire their power from the choice of their social group to elevate individuals to...
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Promoting Children’s Perspective-taking and Empathy through Halloween
The pirate, construction worker, fireman, train conductor, doctor, ghost and Dark Lord Vader have all made guest appearances in our house over the past weeks in hot anticipation of Halloween. Though...
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