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July congratulations are in order!

One of my rising 8th graders scored a 1220 on his first ever SAT, gaining him access to several programs for talented youth,

one college student is pressing on to complete her college math class despite difficulty and overwhelm,

two seventh graders have made amazing leaps in their writing abilities this summer,

and one of my college students finished her nursing chemistry course with a B!

Great work, everyone!

Join me at City Tutorial for the month of July! Great small group instruction from quality tutors at an affordable price - breakfast and lunch are included!

June congratulations are in order for my students!

A merit scholarship to Archbishop Curley High School for exceptional performance on the High School Proficiency Assessment and a National Junior Honor Society inductee!

On the biochemical makeup of the brain and the effects of stressors on students...

The Way We Discipline Low-Income Kids Only Makes Their Problems Worse At the beginning of this school year, Ahmed Mohamed, a freshman at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, brought a makeshift clock to school to impre ...

For my English, grammar, and writing students 😂

Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns 'Teachers work hard, but I now think that conscientious students work harder. '

Our Push for 'Passion,' and Why It Harms Kids Passion has become life’s magic pixie dust, but the fake passions that children adopt drive out real opportunities.

Gifted Challenges: 25 signs your gifted child is misunderstood at school

Children Teach Themselves to Read The unschoolers' account of how children learn to read

All AP? Not for Me! Why Gifted Students Shouldn't Take the Highest Level Classes Bill can get an A in calculus, but that doesn't mean he should take the class.

She made her way in, sleepy-eyed and groggy. "Mama, I accidentally had a accident in my bed." Annoyed, and tired, I huffed out of bed in search of clean PJs.

Peeling the wet ones off I asked, with a tone not so kind, "Did you not go potty before bed?" she whispered, slowly, "I think, I accidentally, free-got." I sighed, a big sigh.

Not much time passed, I lie awake, one part of the now Quinn sandwich that has become our bed, and my stomach turned.

How unfair of me. How silly and childish of me. I turned and quietly spoke towards her but no one in particular, "I accidentally free-got to let you be little. Mama's sorry." It's so easy to get caught up in being a grown up. A grumpy, sleep-deprived, adult with a bad attitude.

But it's also easy to apologize. To let our kids know we are human, and we love them regardless of our sometimes less than stellar choices. It's not the first time I've had to apologize to her, and it won't be the last. Just another piece of mothering.

Let's decide not to "accidentally free-get" our children are children, for only so long. They deserve the occasional mistake or two.

Let's gift them with the ability to make them - to have accidents and spill their juice and drag dirt onto our clean floors.

Let's gift them with better attitudes when they're simply being little, but then humbling ourselves when we don't.

Let's gift them with childhood. Shall we?

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