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Author Archives: Suzita
Five Sanity-Saving Books for Parents of Young Children
My neighbor Kim (see Boys Babysitting: Kim was Right) suggested starting a neighborhood babysitting co-op. In the end three families were able to participate. We arranged for one couple to care for all seven kids one evening, every three weeks. … Continue reading
Posted in Parenting
Tagged babysitting co-op, Burton White, Gesell institute books, Jim and Charles Fay, life with young kids, Love and Logic, Lynn Clark, my kids are driving me crazy, parenting book recommendations, teach turn-taking, time-out a toy, time-out methods, timer for potty training, using timer for time-outs, using timer in parenting, when will this break from school end?
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Our Narratives
My friend Renee’s son Ben is sixteen and a junior in high school. In his freshman year he joined his school’s crew team and has been rowing with them ever since. If you are from a land-locked or water-scarce place, … Continue reading
Mountain Goats and Spiderman: Using the Tools of the Mind Program
Over Spring Break our family visited two National Parks in Utah, Arches and Canyonlands. We stayed in the small town of Moab, where an interesting mix of ex-uranium miners and twenty-something mountain bike enthusiasts live tucked in between towering red … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Family Travel
Tagged Arches National Park, Ashley Merryman, Deborah Leong, Elena Bodrova, executive brain function in kids, funding national parks, imaginative play, kids hiking, kindergarten curriculum, Nurture Shock, petroglyphs, Po Bronson, preschool curriculum, self-control curriculum, tools of the mind
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Teaching Kids Persistence
All three of our kids play soccer on local teams. Early on Todd and I chose soccer as a sport to start with in our family mostly because it requires you to run hard. With three active kids living in … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Social/Emotional Skills
Tagged failure, helping kids with failure, kids and learned helplessness, kids and mastery, kids taking on challenges, kids tolerate failure, Martin Seligman, my kid can't hang in there, my kid never sticks with things, optimistic not pessimistic kids, persistence, soccer and persistence, teaching kids optimism, what kids get from soccer
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Adding Joy
I’ve read in a number of places that if you want to rediscover the things you truly love to do, recall what you loved to do as a 10 or 11 year-old. At this age I was doing a lot … Continue reading
Starting at a New School
My friend Maria is moving her second grade daughter, Tina, to a new school next year. She thinks this school will be a better fit for Tina in the long run, but she’s worried about how Tina’s transition will go. … Continue reading
Negotiating with Kids
My sister’s favorite class at business school was a negotiation course taught by a guy named Stuart Diamond. She said one of the lessons she gleaned from his class was never to give up on a negotiation. There’s always a … Continue reading
Homemade Gifts and The Green Triangle
As I write this I am just a few days past the valentine making-phase I go through each year with our kids. This year, since our oldest is in middle school, only Annie and Daniel made valentines for their classmates. … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Social/Emotional Skills
Tagged Ernest Callenbach, green behavior changes, green triangle, homemade gifts, homemade valentines, kids and gratitude, kids giving compliments, kids read social environments, my kid needs to learn some social skills, my kid needs to learn to be nicer
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Starfish One By One: An Amazing Guatemalan Non-Profit
Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, has been very inspirational reading for me. It demonstrates the creativity people use to make ends meet when given a leg up via a small business loan or scholarship. Prior to … Continue reading
Sweet Spots: Helping Your Kids Find ENOUGH in Their Lives.