School + Education

Once upon a time, in a city far, far away... I hid from the PTA. Not figuratively, literally. I spotted them parked at the front doors of my oldest son’s elementary school after I was already in for parent-teacher conferences....

As with every beginning of the school year, I sit and reflect on my time as a teacher. For the longest time, I wanted to be a high school English teacher, and maybe even a college professor one day....

It's never easy to leave your kids. A piece of a parent's heart is definitely left with them as they walk (or are carried) into the school or child care center where they may be for the next several hours. We,...

Last school year ended like the scene in Titanic when the old lady drops the Heart of the Ocean into the water instead of selling it and leaving the millions of dollars it was worth to her next of...

Teacher Appreciation Week is THIS WEEK! Are you ready? I don't know about you, but spring is such a busy time and buying or creating a great, really cute, really wanted gift can be stressful for me. I will admit that I...

My 5-year-old little boy has the ever dreaded summer birthday.  He's sandwiched smack dab in between the ages of "send on to kindergarten" and "do not pass go for another year". Being the over worrier that I am, I read article after...

Most people know the routine for children going back to school each year. As summer days draw to an end, you will find parents shopping for school supplies, picking out a new lunch box and backpack. They clean out...

I thought I was ready.  Ever since my babies were born, we were together. Being a stay at home mom meant our days were filled with our own schedule - a fun morning out, naps, mealtimes, even the crazy witching...

Weren't we just singing School's Out for Summer!? Now we teachers are crying as we see the back-to-school commercials and the school supplies being put out. And as parents, we might be celebrating that our kids will soon be heading...

I have been on both sides of teacher gifts. As both the giver and the receiver of teacher gifts, I have made some observations on what is best! And I, like all of the teachers I have spoken with on this...

School's out for summer! I can't believe we made it to summer! I'm ready to lay by the pool and forget all my worries from this school year. My girl is ready for zero homework, late nights, and zero responsibilities! But...

Snow days are a rite of passage in childhood. Or, in Oklahoma, ice days. Either way you spin it, snow days are a huge part of growing up. We know that our kids are growing up in a digital...