Family

By Megan Seckman Director Kristina Davis Christensen, who has worked as a special needs coordinator and parent volunteer over her 15 years at Friends School, sat down to tell me about her students’ skills. At the core of the school’s mission are these values, which are cultivated in every child they serve and carry over into the home and community.Treat them as capable. “At Friends, we instill personal responsibility even in our youngest students in preschool. The little guys are expected to unpack their own bags and open their own containers at lunch. If you [...]

By Megan Seckman Here are five skills from West End School you can apply to your own kids at home.Table Manners. Each boy is required to put a napkin on his lap, properly use a knife and fork, keep elbows off the table, and sit up straight. If a woman enters, all boys stand and they jockey over who gets to pull out the chair for her.Respect for authority. West End School teaches students that there will always be an authority figure who will hold you accountable, so you need to learn to respect that [...]

By Megan S. Willman Louisville Classical Academy offers these five things you can apply with your own kids.Encourage them to take a risk. Try something new or delve deeply into something you love. Do it for the joy of doing it. Recent graduate Ruthie Drowin, says that studying Greek and Latin for seven years has shaped her learning in all areas. “Learning both of these languages at the same time fostered my love of languages and even math. It wasn’t until Latin that I realized how much I love puzzles, which made algebra much more fun.”Expand [...]

By Megan S. Willman Here a few tips from St. Francis School that you can use to help your kids become better in every way.Take time for play in nature. “The power of play is tremendous. Children need to be allowed to be children, and play is much more than a way to pass the time. Imaginative play in particular is important!” Sitting on 64 acres, the Goshen campus allows younger students the chance to learn and grow while in touch with nature. In addition to the school building and gym, there are three playgrounds, a [...]

[et_pb_section bb_built="1" next_background_color="#000000"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.2.2"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_post_title _builder_version="3.2.2" comments="off" featured_image="off" title_font="|700|||||||" title_font_size="37px" author="off" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text]   Let me begin by saying that I quit working after I had my first child in 2004 and still haven’t gone back to work full-time. I have three part-time jobs that give me the flexibility to be with my children most of the time. Given this, you might expect me to be 100 percent on-board with Erica Komisar’s Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters, but I wasn’t. I wasn’t 100 percent on-board with The Fifth Trimester: [...]