I firmly believe that children pay a lot more attention to us and our actions/words than we think they do. Sure, they act like they’re big shots and know-it-alls but how many times have we seen or heard them do something and joke, “Wonder where he got THAT from?”
Two weeks ago I went to [...]

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Earlier this month I was a chaperone for my daughter’s field trip to see a play. All four kindergarten classes attended but because the theater is small they only allowed three chaperones per class. So we each got to watch six kids.
Overall, the kids from our school were very well-behaved but I had two kids who [...]

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One day in January we got into a family discussion about how raisins come to be. My kindergartener was distracted by this phenomenon, not fully understanding how a big, round, juicy grape can shrivel up into a dry raisin.
Thinking ahead to the science fair that was coming up in March, I casually suggested that this [...]

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