“Kids today have twelve hours less of free time each week than they did in 1981,” according to the University of Michigan. This is problematic for a variety of reasons,…
Author: Victoria Winterhalter
Victoria Winterhalter
Victoria Winterhalter is a mother, teacher, reader, and writer on the education and environment beats for RFM. She has been with RFM since its founding in 2009 and has contributed photos and written numerous articles on education, parenting, and family travel.
If you think homework overload is interfering with your family life and jeopardizing your child’s wellbeing, you’re not alone. “We were surprised to discover that homework overload is happening from…
Since I started blogging at Parenting by the Book for Richmond Family Magazine, I have read twenty-four titles from experts on everything from our kids’ disconnect with nature to the…
Last week, while reviewing holiday wish lists, I let my daughters know that some items were on backorder. My oldest remarked, “What’s Santa been doing all year?” It struck me…
Over the past two years, I’ve blogged about 24 parenting books and this is the first time I ever spied my husband actually reading one of them. He is much…
It’s no secret. When mom’s happy, the family’s happy. Yet “women admit they don’t invest enough time in doing the things that make them happy,” authors Cathy Greenberg and Barrett…
The middle school I used to teach at distributed “Grover Gold” to students whenever they helped out by running an errand for a teacher, for example, or cleaning up without…
“Happiness is a view of the world,” writes Cathy Greenberg and Barrett Avigdor. “It comes when you align your life to your values, learn to love and forgive yourself and…
While Kieran Egan’s program may have radical effects on student learning, it’s surprisingly easy to implement. The key to deep knowledge is the following: breadth, depth, and participation. “The breadth…
With Washington debating how best to create jobs and inject some much needed adrenaline into the lackluster economy, schools and teachers have moved to the center of the discussion. “Efforts…
“Look at the curriculum guides for all those years of school: they are like a vast encyclopedia of human knowledge. But it is as though all that knowledge was taught…
When I was a child, my mother yelling didn’t affect me as much as when she said, “I’m disappointed.” Therefore, as Amy McCready explained the power of “The Calm…
