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Newsletter 2/26/2026, What Spring Break Reveals About Your Parenting
It’s Winter/Spring Break time! I’ve heard stories of friends traveling to see family, vacationing in faraway places, staying home to rest, or finally tackling the closets and clutter. Whatever you chose to do, you were really aiming at something deeper—a value. And when the break is over, your sense of whether it was “successful” usually comes down…
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Newsletter 10/16/2025 Some Scary Stuff: Protecting Our Kids from Predators and Unsafe Content
⚠️ Trigger Warning: This message discusses topics related to child safety, online predators, and pornography. With Halloween around the corner, we’re inundated with spooky skeletons, pumpkins with jagged teeth, and scary costumes. But these don’t scare me. What scares me is the thought of someone harming my children. When I was a classroom teacher, I was…
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Newsletter 10/9/25 Practicing Grit
10/7/2025 I don’t know about you, but quitting came naturally to me as a child. That’s one of the reasons why, I suppose, my parents decided that “Never Give Up” would be our family motto. From a young age, my parents instilled grit in me by—yep—reminding us never to give up, praising stories of people who stuck…
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The Power of Play
Join Bowbend Consulting and expert educators Lee Steele and Melissa Williams to learn about the power of play, what play does to our brains, and why, as caregivers, we need to make sure our kids (of all ages) get enough.