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Education, Parenting, Sam

Gratitude 12: Watching Your Child’s Dream Come True

Today Sam won his school’s Geography Bee.  For real! Photo evidence: Some of you will remember when Sam was in second grade, how he so desperately wanted to enter a geography bee that he decided to invent one.  If you care to hear the tale of our little boy and his enormous lie, you can read it here.  But in a nutshell:  he created geography bee … Continue reading Gratitude 12: Watching Your Child’s Dream Come True

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Education, Family Life, Ordinary, Parenting

Hail Summer!

I still vividly remember sitting in a classroom at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln back in 1992ish.  It was a small course at the Teacher’s College, and the professor asked the 30 or so of us why we wanted to become educators.  One curmudgeonly old dude (he was probably 30) raised his hand and said, “Three reasons:  June, July, and August.”  Half the class laughed, but … Continue reading Hail Summer!

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