Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Category: Parenting

  • Angels happen by

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    I know that this is an experience common to many parents, though we parents of “quirky” kids experience it more often. I was sitting and watching my daughter’s soccer game with dismay. This is a girl who has great skills in practice, who simply falls apart on the field. Or rather, she becomes hypnotized. That…

  • Moderating moderation

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    In general, I’m a proponent of “moderation in everything.” I believe, as my parents did, that allowing not necessarily healthy but pleasurable activities, as long as they’re balanced with healthy ones, is a good thing. In raising kids, this translates to a household where: We eat sugar, but not as a replacement for healthy calories…

  • The education we deserve

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    I’m always mystified by pundits who urge Americans to adopt a school system devised in a country with a very different culture from ours. They’ll look at a place like, say, Singapore and tell us, “Hey, their test scores are high. We should use their educational system.” But you can’t just peel the educational system…

  • Food Day!

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    I have long been a fan of an amazing and wonderful organization called the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. It seems that every time there is positive movement in the kids’ entertainment world (such as Disney’s admission that Baby Einstein is not educational), the CCFC is behind it. Their latest missive to their supporters is…

  • How about just considering us people?

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    I spent much of the morning sitting in a local bank, opening a new bank account for the new homeschooling cooperative — the Discovery Learning Center — that is now a corporation (and on its way to being a nonprofit). Doing things in banks always takes longer than it should, doesn’t it? This is why…