kindergarten Archives - Kimberly Hensle Lowrance

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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100 Days of School

Kimberly Family February 11, 2015

100 days. Somewhere, in the midst of all these snow days, we passed the 100th day of school (how come it’s felt much longer than that?). I had no idea that when you reached 100 days of school, it was a holiday and you had a ...Read More

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The Last Day of Kindergarten

Kimberly Family June 24, 2014

Here we are. It’s the last day of kindergarten. The other day, I asked my son if he was sad about kindergarten ending. He was lying in bed, clad in Star Wars pajamas, a few minutes away from falling asleep. “No, Mama,” he replied ...Read More

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I forgot my kid at school

Kimberly Family November 6, 2013

Today, I forgot my kid at school. The story is a classic scheduling screw-up–specifically, my screw-up, my parenting fail–caused by an extra busy time at work, by stressors in my personal sphere, and by an imperfect calendaring system. Here’s what happened: my son, R, is ...Read More

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