Recent content by mnparent78

Mine are eight and I still like standing in the doorway and listening to their breathing. One of them snores sometimes a little too and I love it!

What I mean by social promotion is moving a pupil along to the next year even if they haven't successfully learned the skills required of that year. By that definition England certainly uses social promotion. I don't know about Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. I saw many year six students...

That's a fairly homophobic thing to say. If one of my sons turns out to be gay I would certainly avoid that sort of attitude.

I worked in England for a year after college and I couldn't believe that 'social promotion' is used so much. There are kids who just need another year to reinforce (or "revise" as they say in the UK) their skills. Passing them along to secondary isn't doing them any 'favors'.

Our kids' teacher has been really good about setting a 30 min limit for the 3rd graders and one night a week is supposed to be just reading together and writing a sentence about what we read. I don't think I could keep their attention for much longer than that.

My son asked at the store if we could get some "broken for you", I didn't know what he meant and asked him again and he said "I want some Jesus crackers, you know the body broken for you". After grinning to my niece who was with us it led to a serious discussion of the Real Presence in the...

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I have twins and Mason, the "older one" (15 mins older than his brother), has gone through phases of dominating his younger brother and this has led to some confidence issues. My "youngest" would call himself dumb or stupid. Finally my partner and I just made a rule: No self put-downs...