“Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don’t fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting which isn’t good for him” -Theodore Roosevelt It’s true.  Kids left to their own devices often find...

My mother was a schoolteacher.  She was the type of person that had a calm sense of authority about her.  She told me that when a new school year would start she was extremely strict with her students.  Usually the first four or five weeks were dedicated to showing the class that she meant business....

It is hard to believe that we are looking straight down the barrel of another summer.  Our kids are slowly losing control of themselves as the energy of the approaching summer overtakes them.  I have an increased respect for school teachers as the end of the year approaches.  How they manage to keep our kids...