We’ve all been there… Grandparents or Aunts and Uncles ask what the kids want and you just can’t come up with anything! We are here to help! As a group of parents, educators, and therapists, we created a list of our top gift ideas for children 2-8...
It seems that we are producing a generation of printers - children who have not learned how to write in cursive. I've heard many opinions on this topic, ranging from, “How will they ever get by?” to “Does it really matter?” First, let's take a look at...
When you become a parent you sometimes realize that things that didn't bother you as a child, suddenly do. For me, one of those things is the fact that cursive writing has essentially been kicked to the curb in schools across the country. When I was...
In my experience, for every parent that expresses that he/she hates homework, there is another parent requesting that the teacher sends some home. There’s also a small parent group of “in betweeners” who want homework some of the time, but not all of the time. This...
Kids around the country, mine included, will begin the new school year within one month. While that brings freshly sharpened pencils and new book bags, it also means the return of an unpopular “friend”… homework. After spending 6+ hours at school,...