How can you advocate for your child and enhance your child’s education when you are not in the classroom to see what is happening? One of the most important pieces to the puzzle is to create a supportive relationship with the teacher. Make sure the teacher appreciates you as a parent and an individual. Here [...]
Tomorrow, April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day. Although some of us live with Autism everyday, most people have difficulty understanding what living with Autism really means. Since children with autism often physically look like other kids, it can be like having an invisible disability. Why is awareness so important? People tend to be afraid of what they don’t understand. Awareness has the power [...]
Help your child pass the most important test The increase in benchmark assessments and standardized testing can be stressful on even the best of test-takers, and can take the joy out of learning. Last week my 3rd grader asked me “Mom, do I have to keep taking more and more tests as I get older?” Childhood [...]
I saw Mary Poppins at the Detroit Music Theater over the holiday, and was struck by the “Spoonful of Sugar” song. It is amazing how music (though not necessarily sugar for those of us with children on restricted diets) can help ease the transitions of getting through daily life. Now that a new year has [...]
For me, motherhood and music have always gone hand in hand. However, when my oldest daughter Lila was 15 months old, she regressed and slowly stopped speaking and making eye contact. Communication came to a halt – and the joy of music stopped for a while too. It was daunting trying to share music without the [...]
