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Your Child Should Learn Cursive Like Now.

I remember learning cursive writing in 3rd grade and before I became a mom, I thought it was just something every school still did. To my chagrin, cursive writing was pulled out of schools, only to reverse course years later. The beautiful thing about being a parent is parental choice. While it has rightfully gained a negative connotation, I'm using this as a positive thing. Over the course of
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Why We Chose Arts Over STEM for Bear

Choosing a good elementary school is rolling the dice. You honestly just don't know what you're going to get. You hope to get a Lucky 7 but you might end up with snake eyes. After some careful deliberation and going back and forth, we ended up choosing an Arts school for Bear. Our other choices were a Quaker elementary school and a STEM school. So, you're probably wondering why we made
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Choosing a Good School is so Elementary.

The current issue that is stressing us the fuck out plaguing our family right now is where to send Bear to elementary school. We're not talking for a year. We're talking something he'll like for five years or more. While we were assigned to a school, it's not one that we want to send Bear to. The Great Schools rating is lower than hell, and some online reviews of said
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Fun with Flags

https://youtu.be/_e8PGPrPlwA On the days Bear is not in school, we do a lot of lesson plans. Okay, who am I B.S.ing? I try to sit him down long enough for a couple of minutes while I attempt to do lesson plans with him. There, that's more accurate. Recently, Bear was given an educational gift by the author of Hello Aaaron! Where Are You? Nellie Emrani. It's actually a pretty cool book that