Avant Parenting Archives
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Avant! Welcome to my parenting blog archives
As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated. However, there’s lots of good stuff here, much of it as true now as when it was written. Please feel free to browse, or follow these links: One last piece of parenting advice: Enjoy today even if it’s a rough…
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From the archives: What a Mitzvah! A Day in the Life of Fundraising for a Preschool
Continuing with cleaning out my files, I keep coming up with old gems that I don’t just want to delete. Here’s another, from my days as the director of fundraising for our preschool. Each year for the last few years we have had a big rummage sale to benefit our preschool, which is a program…
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When professional teachers teach homeschoolers
Check out the piece of mine just published on Parent at the Helm: http://www.parentatthehelm.com/10398/when-professional-teachers-teach-homeschoolers/
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From the archives: Visiting Africa with Burp
Continuing with the discoveries I made in my old files. This is another piece, from when our daughter was quite small, that reminded me of the charm of having an imaginative little one in the house. Yes, they still have imaginations, but they know the difference between truth and make-believe. If you have a little…
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From the archives: Nine pet parenting peeves
I have been cleaning out the files on my computer and found this piece that I wrote when my daughter was in preschool…. she’s nine now. So it’s old news, but what’s amazing is how fresh it is. I still agree with all of it! I think I stopped writing because I’d called the piece…
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On Moral Fiction
I have a book, pages yellowed and stiff as if I’d been born much earlier than I was actually born, that my brother gave me when I graduated from college. He inscribed the front page, which is why I know when he gave it to me. Otherwise, I’d have to depend on my memory, which…