Parenting from the Heart

In Michael Slack’s Saturday Zoom presentation, he detailed the way he had written and illustrated books like Dinosaur and Boy, as well as...

Last week children loved watching art teacher Lara Cannon at work on a ladder in the hall, carefully painting the outline of a huge tree....

“I couldn’t find the words” is a phrase we often use when our ability to speak falls short of what we want to express. Watching the...

“I CAN TELL THAT MY TWO-YEAR-OLD has the ability to focus because of the expression he gets on his face when he listens to music.” This...

On a noisy day when the teachers in my older daughter’s second grade classroom needed everyone’s attention, they made this request....

Naming difficult emotions and the events that cause them is the first stage in teaching children resilience. Big feelings are abounding...

If you buy children gifts at this time of year, or on other occasions, you might be interested in an important article Ben West’s dad,...

Fifteen year-old Gitanjali Rao is the first child to be featured on the cover of Time magazine. This is an important breakthrough for our...

Tuck a personal note into your child’s lunch box. It’s a guaranteed way to brighten any day. In the midst of concentrating, adjusting to...