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Getting Ready for Kindergarten: Ideas for Summer

Kimberly Uncategorized June 6, 2013

Sometimes, when I think about R starting kindergarten, I feel like a bad country song: oh me, oh my, life is changing, woe is me, blah, blah blah. Other times, I’m looking forward to it—especially when I ask R how he feels about starting ...Read More

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8 Tips to Get Ready for Kindergarten

Kimberly Family May 31, 2013

R starts kindergarten in September, and we’ve already started getting ready: paperwork, assessments, and lectures about transition and logistics. Last week, I received a letter inviting us to a tour of the school–at 1 PM on a Monday, which is challenging for this working ...Read More

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Are you fluent in the Science of Parenthood? These funny ladies are!

Kimberly Family, Sponsored January 6, 2016

A few years ago, at my first BlogHer conference, I met fellow blogger Norine Dworkin-McDaniel, who was funny, driven, and on a first name basis with practically every attendee. Norine, along with comrade-in-arms, Jessica Ziegler, had a plan, and that plan was to find the ...Read More

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Should You Join the PTA? {repost}

Kimberly Featured, Uncategorized September 11, 2015

This is a repost of an original article I wrote for BlogHer.com. My first introduction to the PTA (or Parent Teacher Association) was through my mother’s typewriter. Click, clack. Click, clack. My mother, co-president of the PTA, had volunteered to type up the recipe ...Read More

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3 Ways to Celebrate the Last Day of School

Kimberly Family June 5, 2015

Today, on our calendar, there’s a big 13. Thirteen days until the end of school. Already the homework assigned to my first-grader has ceased, while Field Day, the Art Show, and end of the year parties have been scheduled. The kids are looking forward ...Read More

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6 Lessons from Being a Field Trip Chaperone

Kimberly Family February 26, 2015

I joined an exclusive club this week. A very special club. The “I-am-a-Field-Trip-Chaperone” club! Jealous? Maybe a little bit jealous? The story is this: last year, my then-kindergarten son had a Field Trip to a local children’s science museum. His teacher asked for parent ...Read More

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