I am a Japenese mom. A lot of books have words that I don't understand, but I don't want to stop reading to my kids because I want them to become good readers. I coul...
During kindergarten roundup, my daughter's new teacher told us that they focus a large part of their time on writing stories. They don't care about spelling, the lett...
So my daughter and the neighbor's children are all in Kindergarten. My daughter and one boy is in the same class, and the other is in a different class. The boy in my...
This is, a sort of continuation of my previous post, about our having houseguests next Month for 3 weeks.
They are from abroad, they hardly speak English and I don't...
Hi everyone,
Does anyone have any advice on how to raise a child who has at least a working knowledge (if not full fluency) of a second language, when only one par...
I've noticed that there seems to be a lot of comments thrown around in most every online group these days about using spell checker and correct grammar. Some people ...
A little background... My mother in law incomes over from India once a year. Currently she is here for a month, which is allegedly a HUGE compromise because she beli...
We are starting to look into a anniversary vacation to Italy in about 18months and just searching online has me a little overwhelmed. We want to stay at a villa and s...
We are having a debate on the correct punctuation in my son's essay. It's due today (teacher's a jerk and wouldn't help). We need the correct comma placement for thi...
My son is 5 yrs old and reading at a 1st grade mid-year level. I’ve also got a 3 ½ yr old beginning reader that learned to read just from watching her older broth...
