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Your toddler ate almost nothing at lunch. You felt it in your chest before you finished clearing the plate. You wonder if she is unwell,…

  Teaching children to think before answering is one of the quieter skills a school can build, and one of the hardest for parents to…

When children teach adults something the adult did not know before, most parents assume the child in front of them is unusually gifted. A born…

Most parents want to know how to handle a bored child the moment the words I’m bored leave their child’s mouth. We understand the instinct.…

How to prepare children for the future is the question every parent is now asking, and asking it more urgently every two years as the…

Real learning Montessori is a phrase the movement uses often enough that it has started to lose precision. Schools market real learning. Curriculum brochures promise…

How fossils form is one of the questions children begin asking very young. The honest answer takes them into chemistry, deep time, and the slow…

When parents and educators ask what teenagers can really do, the honest answer requires looking at adolescents who have been given work that can actually…