Richmond Ballet company dancer Valerie Tellmann remembers checking the casting list five times before it really sank in that she was going to dance the coveted role of…
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It’s amazing how quickly Can’t wait to be home for the holidays! can turn into What’s there to do? Even when family and guests want to spend lots of together…
“So many children don’t read,” argues Donalyn Miller, author of The Book Whisperer, “They don’t read well; they don’t read often enough; and if you talk to children, they will…
I decided to read The Curse of the Good Girl by Rachel Simmons because I was worried about the dangers of “the ideal girl” curtailing my daughters’ power and potential. …
From Richmond, Virginia to Broadway and back, Emily Skinner has wowed theater-goers since her elementary school days.
According to Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate, authors of Hold On to Your Kids, parents need to matter more than peers. As a parent with a preteen, my child is…
With school starting back up soon, I wanted to read something that would keep me mindful of the difference between my children excelling in school and being happy in school. …
With sports and kids’ extra-curricular schedules ever on parents’ minds, I decided to blog about Changing the Game by John O’Sullivan in the hopes of giving parents pause before signing their children…
When I moved from New Jersey to Virginia ten years ago, Baltimore immediately became my family’s annual getaway. Once a year, my daughters and I would drive up to meet…
“Camp directors tell me that managing “childsickness” – parents’ longing for their absent camper – is becoming a bigger problem for them than dealing with homesickness,” Thompson writes in Homesick…
This month I’m featuring Homesick and Happy by Michael Thompson in honor of my older daughter attending sleep-away camp for the first time. With helicopter parents becoming more and more prevalent,…
Tony Wagner, author of Creating Innovators, is upfront about how his book wasn’t intended to offer parents advice; rather, he hoped by focusing on a couple of key questions, such…
