Communication is key.
8 Tips For Starting The New School Year Right With Your Child’s Teacher
Give Yourself The Gift Of Being Present This Holiday Season
“Take a minute to linger and look at the lights as we drive home. Have dessert together after dinner. Read just one more Christmas story. Stop always thinking about the next thing.”
26-Year-Old Elementary Teacher Adopts 3 Foster Kids Into Forever Family
“They were just children who needed a home, and this grieved her. She felt a strong need to step up for these kids.”
How To Address Gender Bias With Preschoolers
“It is important for children to feel their preferences or choices are okay. No other child (or adult!) has the right to take that from them.”
Teacher And Student With Similar Limb Difference Form Immediate Bond Over Shared ‘Nubs’
“I have never shared something this unique with a student ever.”
‘Every teacher you know has thought about it. Every teacher you know has a plan for an active shooter.’: Former teacher shares heartbreaking reaction to Uvalde mass shooting
“Every teacher you know thinks it can happen, so they pray it doesn’t.”
Dear Preschool Teachers, You Changed My Children And I’s Lives For The Better
“I’m going to miss your consistent, stable presence in their lives through the uncertainty of so many hard and scary times. I’m going to miss knowing they’re in the absolute best hands while they’re away from me. There’s just no other way to say this—I’m going to miss you so much.”
‘I cried as we pulled into the parking lot that first day, and I’ll cry today, the last day, for a different reason.’: Mom shares heartfelt gratitude for daycare at youngest’s graduation
“These are the people I handed my children to as babies, and toddlers, and preschoolers, and the people who looked at me with reassuring eyes when I needed it most.”
‘The most meaningful and influential job, underappreciated and underpaid.’: Mom shares ode to hero teachers
“Can you imagine a pandemic going on for two-plus years and others looking to you as ‘the face of calm’ when all you really wanna do is freak the fudge out like the rest of the world? Teachers don’t have to ‘imagine’ this. It’s their reality, and it shouldn’t be.”
‘I got a text from my daughter’s school saying, ‘You’re going to love this.’ I started to laugh and simultaneously cry.’: Mom recounts hilarious card to teacher from ‘wild’ daughter
“I read it again. ‘A best friend you can have sex with,’ and then flipped to the inscription ‘How great is that?’ I thought about joining witness protection or calling my daughter in sick for the rest of the year so I didn’t have to face her teacher.”