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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Running in a Race to Nowhere
The other night I joined a boisterous, energized crowd at the Rio Theater to see the second of two films about education making waves these days. (See my review of the first, Waiting for Superman. I’m going to attempt to avoid a compare/contrast of these two radically different films here; hopefully I’ll get to that…
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Harvest
Lots of schools have harvest festivals, but the best way you can connect your kids to the rhythms of the earth is to take part in the dance. At our house, this happens in a variety of ways. We went on a lovely school fieldtrip to Live Earth Farm. We’ve gone there before, and I…
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Keep in touch!
This is the sort of blog entry I need to do more often. But just like other moms who neglect their cars, their jobs, and the hygiene of their floors, I neglect the outreach part of my job way too often! I have three ways that I keep in touch with the parents and educators…
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Mandate, schmandate
So we have a state budget and we perhaps think that all is good. All is not good. This economy is less like a roller coaster and more like a very slow sink into thick black mud. Who knows? Perhaps we’ll find a diamond down there in the mud, but for now, all we see…
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Getting there on time
The thing I worried about most when I first left my son with strangers was getting back on time. Until he started going to preschool two mornings a week, I’d never left him with anyone who wasn’t related to me. The preschool had hours: 9 a.m. drop-off, 1 p.m. pickup. This seemed very reasonable. Until…