Social media enthusiast. Inquisitive. A little quirky.
Over the past few weeks, I have tried to process some of the feelings that are left lingering since my life was turned upside in the fall of 2009. It was then that the man I had been intimately involved with for about a year-and-a-half dropped (what I perceived to be) a bomb on me. [...]
Today, a federal appeals court said what so many of us have said a million times over: Proposition 8 [California's marriage protection act] serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California and to officially reclassify their relationship and families as inferior [...]
I have been overwhelmed as of late at the thought of so many obligations I’ve signed up for when it comes to my “online presence”. I think that it is my curiosity that has made me feel so tired of it all — a curiosity in what others are doing and to be a part [...]
How do you get your kids excited about reading? How do you make reading fun for your kids? I’ll help you get started with 5 ways to help your child learn to love reading at Mom It Forward. Read more here.
It happens every autumn. Millions of young children start school for the very first time. They carry backpacks, lunchboxes, pencils, sometimes a grin on their face, but more often, a look of trepidation about what school will really be like. They wonder: Will my teacher be nice? Will I have friends? What if I can’t [...]
Teaching a child to read gives them the gift of a lifetime. The National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) states that there are five components of reading: Phonemic awareness is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words. Phonics is the relationships between the letters (graphemes) of written language [...]
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re 4 years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re 8. (Source: Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever) There’s a reason we learn nursery [...]
