My favorite commercial right now is an ad from Under Armour featuring the USA women’s gymnastics team. I am partial to this ad considering I was a gymnast for 15 years, but there is much more to it than that (and 2.8 million YouTube views seem to agree with me). This video shows incredibly strong, ...
Child Development
Focusing on Our Children’s Emotional Intelligence
Does your young child know their colors? Can they sing the alphabet song? Can they count their toys when you line them up in a row? But more importantly, does any of that matter? Children are good at memorizing and mimicking whatever they hear. They will be able to sing the alphabet song if ...
Positive Impact of School Counselors on Our Students
Our school district sent out a survey recently about school counselors. It asked questions about parents’ and students’ experiences with their school counselors in an effort to improve their services and systems. I was very glad to see that there is a focus on this part of the school system that is ...
Our Children & Microaggressions – 5 Ways We Can Help
The world that our children live in has the potential to be very different than the world that we are currently living in, but in order for that to happen, we have to help them to be better than we have been in the past. Microaggressions are still a big part of our culture, but there are ways to ...
Can My Child Watch this Movie?
Can My Child Watch this Movie? We stop at Redbox, pick up Big Hero 6, go home & watch it together as a family. Okay… the brothers are orphans. Well, that is a popular theme in kid movies (unfortunately), but (fortunately) it goes over my son’s head. The brothers are really close. We ...