by Amy LeForge | May 17, 2011 | Adolescence
I discovered tonight that one of the older boys (who is 13 going on 30) tried to friend someone on Facebook that he doesn’t know. This individual is a friend of a friend, and wasn’t so sure about a child making a friend request. End result: I was notified...
by Amy LeForge | May 16, 2011 | Education
(Editor’s note: please welcome Alvina with a guest post that offers practical strategies for helping kids do homework peacefully. Thanks, Alvina!) Every parent who has school-aged children has had, at one point or another during their parenting careers, to...
by Amy LeForge | May 12, 2011 | Education
Lots of people are interested in raising multilingual children, for many great reasons. Speaking six languages myself, and four fluently, I know that being multilingual can come in pretty handy. Speaking several languages fluently increases job opportunities, makes...
by Amy LeForge | May 3, 2011 | Adolescence
There are different kinds of trust that we offer our children over time. For example, there’s the trust that a child will do her chores responsibly, and trust that he won’t play with matches and set the house on fire. Now that the boys are older, we’re dealing with...
by Amy LeForge | Apr 4, 2011 | Education
Hello heroes! Happy Monday. Today’s guest post is one I’m going to mention to my children. They don’t always believe me when I tell them that learning more than just English is a good idea. If you want to give your children a really positive start in...
