Parents: Please Stop Bashing Educators Online
If you ask anyone, they’ll tell you that being an educator is hard. As a middle school teacher, I am frequently reminded by friends and acquaintances that most people could not and would not...
Swatting :: It Can Happen To You Or Your Kids {An Online Danger Parents Need to Know About}
“I Got Swatted”
I was putting my kids to bed one night a few weeks ago when I received a text from a...
Disclosure :: This post is sponsored by Ursuline Academy.
Ursuline Academy's SmartLab: Where Girls Become Trailblazers
At Ursuline Academy, girls are encouraged to become trailblazers.
Girls are encouraged to make their own paths by thinking creatively, solving problems collaboratively, and living...
Disclosure :: this post is sponsored by Louise S. McGehee School.
McGehee's Family Engineering Night
I am frantically gathering pom-poms from under the tables
A kid just glued my wooden ruler to her duct taped covered prototype, and another girl is squealing with...
Rewards and positive reinforcement are the key to any good potty-training method. But when the training takes an unexpectedly long and messy path like ours did, the rewards tend to get just as grandiose as the process. The promise...
K-12 New Orleans Public School Applications
The NOLA-PS Common Application Process (NCAP), formerly known as OneApp, is currently open for grades K-12 and due on January 20, 2023. If you’ve been putting off completing your application, I’m here to tell...
Dear Ridgewood, Thank You For The Memories
Where did you go to high school?
Anyone from New Orleans knows how common this question is.
The answer for me is Ridgewood Prep. Not only did I attend high school there, but I spent...
If you're a co-sleeper and you read that title, I'm willing to bet a little bit of cringe grazed your face. Or maybe that's just me bitter and exhausted from having the same conversation for a decade.
Why are people...
Is 12 the new 15? I don’t remember much about my relationship with my parents when I was 12 years old. I was pretty consumed with New Kids on the Block, science tests, and my love-hate relationship with the...
When my daughter's birthday was quickly approaching a few months ago, I found myself conflicted about how to celebrate it.
She wasn't a "little girl" anymore, but also not quite a "big girl' either. Intrigued to find something fresh and...
Let me preface this by acknowledging that I am aware this is a true first-world problem and the fact my children even have money to burn is a privilege I do not take lightly. Their access to money to...
Positive parent-teacher communication is an important part of student success. As both a parent and a teacher, I recognize that sometimes the expectations of each are flawed or at odds with one another. As a parent, I sometimes wish...
Everyone parents their children differently, whether it is from their own upbringing or from learning what didn't work and improving from there. It's what makes everyone unique and their own person. There is no book that says 'This is...
A Semester Into Being a College Mom :: One Mom's Reflection
If I could summarize my personal experience of my oldest child being away at college into four words, it would be: "sleep more, worry less." I will say that...