How Much Recess Should Kids Get? On the “whole life” side, it kind of goes one step farther to say we need to know the wide and the long of a kid's life. The “wide” is what are all the spaces and places where they spend time, and who are they in those different places, ...
Middle schoolers can be total doofuses. But my guess is they didn’t wake up and say, “I can’t wait to make my science teacher look like an idiot today.” Maybe something hilarious was circling in their group chat just before class. Maybe they wanted to be mature and polite but the...
Many other countries are not able to do so, and therefore the countries who are able to manufacture and develop vaccines ought to find a way to work together (so) that they can supply the vaccines to those countries who really need them and really help them with the whole process of taki...
new things about being on a team and kids should experience the feeling of being on a competitive sports team with brand new people that they haven't met before while they are playing and gaining physical strength and increasing their stamina while they are in the middle of -playing a game...
This was an amazing confidence boost for my middle son. He can’t keep up with his big brother in a foot race, but he gets to be a leader and show his little buddy how to stack the iconic Montessori pink tower. The classrooms have a policy where students can’t use materials until ...
Adan (uh-DON) Deeb, whose family hails from Israel with Palestinian roots, experienced this as a middle school student in the U.S. “Every time I was called up to the office, EVERY SINGLE TIME, they would mispronounce my name, no matter how many times I corrected them. It made me ...
The longer children stay in school the further they will drift.The bonds you shared the first five years will begin to dissolve, slowly at first, but by middle school and high school, you will find that your children have bonds and loyalties to a new community. ...
No book – no collection of books – no ancient texts written on some ancient parchments dug up from the sands of the Middle East – can IMPART His Divine Life and His Divine Graces into and unto any of us. To be sure, we all need KNOWLEDGE. But we are in dire need of the KNOWLE...
Even young, energetic kids are not immune to the dangers of sitting too long. Though they have the advantage of recess during the day and some play sports, many may be sitting for up to7.5 hours a day, time spent sitting in class, on the bus, doing homework and using the computer or...