Time is a tickin’, and if you haven’t yet returned your kids to the classroom (or the homeschool room), the first day of school is probably not far off. Which means summer is just about over. Time to take stock: Was it a good one? Did you do everything you set out to accomplish? What [...]

With six weeks leading up to the start of school, I told myself and my boys that we’d be hitting the books a bit, just to get ready for the first and third grades. I bought some workbooks, scoured the Internet for ideas, and we actually did a day or two of work. Then we [...]

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In my city, one local Regal cinema offers a Free Family Film Festival every summer. For nine weeks, two different movies are available each week at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Granted, they’re reruns (this year, we’re getting Spiderwick Chronicles, Water Horse, Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda and more), but, hey, they’re free, [...]

My kids love it when school’s out (three weeks left), but summer break makes me a little nervous, because it’s hard to fill all the free hours with purposeful plans. You know, I want my kids to be active, and I want them to learn some stuff, and I want them to have a lot [...]