"Don’t freak out!" This is the same advice that I get from my students every year about standardized testing. It is my custom to ask my more successful students what advice they would give to help students get through all...
Welcome to Bump Diaries – a new series on Columbia SC Moms Blog! One of our contributors is expecting, and here she will share her journey – the good AND the ugly – with all of you. It is sort of...
I am a lover of words. I always have been, since I was nine and overjoyed that my parents bought me a typewriter for my birthday. This love continued through high school where I filled countless composition books with...
From the teachers at South Carolina Calvert Academy. South Carolina Calvert Academy is a K-8, tuition-free public virtual charter school available to families statewide in South Carolina. To learn more about our program and view our schedule of upcoming events,...
If you are anything like me, you're always on the lookout for good books to add to your child's library -- stories your little one will love for years to come with fun and colorful pages, exciting characters and...
Early in January, one of our contributors wrote about choice in our public schools. January is the big month for public schools, when parents can visit and peruse and consider which kind of program is best for their son...
Hey, come on in! I'm glad you could stop in today. I would say "excuse the mess," but I've been learning more and more that toys all over the living room is pretty normal for the stage of life we...
I'm so happy to be bringing you fabulous people more awesome literary wonders! And I'm even MORE happy to announce that I finished a resounding 101 books last year, so I have lots of good books to choose from!...
When I was a child, I remember the excitement of waiting for the mail deliverer... of peeking out our window to see if the red flag was down to show that the outgoing mail had been picked up and...
Tears, doors slamming, and all out meltdowns often ensue over the homework battle. There is no denying that homework time can be less than pleasant for both parent and child, but it does not have to be such a...
I've been a reader for as long as I can remember. I was sick recently and I hadn't finished a book for a week. A WEEK! I was dying! I felt completely beside myself and outside myself. No escaping...
School has been back in session for a few weeks now and the creative, cute lunches are harder to keep up than you originally thought! So let's get back to the basics, using real food that's yummy and healthy....
I know what I am supposed to be feeling right now. As I approach the day I'll send my only child to preschool for the first time, I am supposed to be tearful. Nervous. Bemoaning the passage of time. I...
We think of back-to-school time as something for kids. That's true in my house, as this month my two-year-old son started preschool twice a week. But it's also back-to-school time for me, as I continue my education part-time at...
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