by Dawn | May 26, 2015 | education reform, parenting, Teaching
We’re making poster boards of our favorite insects, Declan and I. It’s my first second grade project. I tell him I’m not going to do it for him, I’m going to make my own. “You can’t make one! Parents can’t do their own!”...
by Dawn | May 21, 2015 | parenting, Uncategorized
“We learned about the human body today.” Declan is proud. It’s one of the few days he hasn’t said, “Nothing” when I ask him what he did at school. School children do a whole lot of “nothing” when you ask them. It’s...
by Dawn | May 19, 2015 | simplicity, sustainability
Chicken Day is here. We went to the Putnam Farmer’s Co-op to pick out the birds a couple days ago. Putnam is an old Connecticut mill town in “The Quiet Corner,” the Northeastern part of Connecticut now famous for antique shops, formerly where...
by Dawn | May 11, 2015 | parenting, Teaching
I got a Mother’s Day e-card. It was Stewie from Family Guy. “Mommy, mommy, mom, Lois mom, mom…I hope you get some peace, though it’s probably impossible.” Peace and Mother’s Day are diametrically opposed. I let Declan stay up good...
by Dawn | Apr 16, 2015 | parenting
I’m in the sneaker aisle. I’m a bad mom. I let the boy play in puddles and now he has no shoes for school. “You really should get him a second pair of shoes.” I know. I hate shopping. I go into the store, I get stressed about the choices, how...