Raising kids up…

This blog was written by my good friend Anne Josephson, who owns JAG Gymnastics in Culver City. For a direct Link to her blog, please click HERE. Anne Josephson – Raising All Kids Up Posted on March 22, 2011 by JAG We all want our children to succeed. But what happens when a parent feels that there isn’t enough achievement to go around for everyone? What happens when parents become convinced that their child’s success is threatened when another child succeeds? There is a well-known African proverb: “It takes a village to raise a child,” yet I am growing...

Why Preschool shouldn’t be like sc...

Here’s a great article forwarded to me by Betsy Brown Braun.

When I was seventeen…

It really was a good year.  I turned seventeen in the fall of my senior year.  It was to be the year that I grew up in so many ways. All these memories came flooding back to me, as I helped my daughter celebrate her seventeenth birthday this month.  It doesn’t seem possible.  On one hand, I cannot imagine the life I had before she was born.  On the other hand, it seems so easy to find myself back into the head of my seventeen year old self, negotiating relationships, romance, and leaving home. As my daughter and I wade through the issues of her seventeenth year, ...

Spring 2010

It has been an exciting year as our garden has taken an entirely new shape.  We have moved our tomato garden, which is now exploding, and now we are preparing the back garden for squash, zucchini and pumpkins.  We are determined to get pumpkins one of these years, maybe in time for Halloween.  Our sweet peas are climbing up the new trellis’ we’ve built for them, and soon we’ll be eating them off the vines.  Our strawberries this year were the most delicious ever, and our fruit trees have been getting stronger and growing more fruit for us.  Our ...

Summer 2009

We are preparing for Preschool Graduation, which will take place in the fire station community center, just a few steps away from our school.  Afterwards, we will celebrate with a family barbecue in our garden preschool.  Garden camp is currently open and available to all students.

February 2009

As our garden’s “resting” period is coming to a close, we are preparing to begin our spring planting.  Digging, of course, is one of the most productive and fun activities in the garden, as it give us a chance to explore all that lives with us in our garden, as we mix the compost into our soil to prepare for our spring plants.  In the meantime, we have made good use of our winter.  In December we celebrated the holidays by honoring the traditions of all of our class members, which felt like a journey around the world.  January was literacy month,...