Denise Schipani / 16 Comments / learning, school / Kindergarten, New YorkTimes, redshirting, Sam Wang, Sandra Aamodt /
After reading this article in Sunday’s New York Times the other day, by Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt, about “redshirting” kindergarteners (that is, keeping them back a year if their birth date falls near the cut-off date, leaving them “young” for their class), I did one of those silent victory-arm-pump things in my kitchen: I […]
Denise Schipani / 10 Comments / education, learning, mom bloggers, school / education, education reform, Kindergarten, Lisa Belkin, Motherlode blog, New York Times, school, school projects /
A long while ago, I wrote a post about how much more involved parents of my generation are in our kids’ schooling and schools than my parents — well meaning as they were — ever were in mine. As my kids have progressed through more school since then, it’s naturally remained on my mind. Just […]
Denise Schipani / 1 Comment / family finances, family life, learning, summer, vacation / DailyWorth.com, family vacation, kids and money, money /
So, last weekend my family and I were up in the Catskill Mountains, in upstate New York, at a family-style resort we’ve been going to, on and off, my whole life (my dad used to go there as a teen, that’s how long we’ve been patrons of this particular spot). By “family” I mean a […]
Denise Schipani / 8 Comments / babies, learning / Alison Gopnik, baby brains, baby classes, baby learning, Gymboree, Mommy & Me, New York Times, U.C. Berkeley /
Have you read this article in the New York Times yet? It’s by writer and psychologist Alison Gopnik, and it’s gotten a bunch of media play in the last few days, because it’s about something supposedly revolutionary: Babies, Gopnik asserts, are quite a bit smarter than we think. I’m pretty sure I knew that already. […]