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April 29, 2016 By admin

PCSing with MilKids: Tips and Tricks

It’s a whole new ballgame when you add a school-aged child to the PCS mix. However, there are ways to help smooth the transition.

Filed Under: MilKids, PCS Tagged With: for parents, MilFam, PCS

April 22, 2016 By admin

What The School Liaison Officer Can Do For You

Every base has one. A School Liaison Officer.

Filed Under: MilKids, School Tips for MilKids Tagged With: for parents, MilFam

April 15, 2016 By admin

Military Interstate Children's Compact: What's the Big Deal?

As you move around the country, and world, with your MilKids, it can seem daunting and confusing to keep switching your child’s schools. Not every school, even Department of Defense schools on military bases, understands how to work with military kids. Luckily, there is the Military Interstate Children’s Compact.

Filed Under: MilKids, School Tips for MilKids Tagged With: for parents, MilFam, PCS

April 8, 2016 By admin

PCS Timeline for MilKids

So you got your orders, and you have a kiddo or two in school. What’s next? Let me help you out with an easy to use PCS Timeline for MilKids!

Filed Under: MilKids, PCS Tagged With: for parents, MilFam, PCS

March 1, 2016 By admin

The History of Women's History Month and PCSing with Kids

Women. We make up just a little bit less than 50% of the total global population. We have been around just as long as men. As a gender, we have scientists, rulers, authors, artists, composers, doctors, teachers, and pretty much every career path ever. For much of our species existence, women have been on the back […]

Filed Under: Homeschool, MilKids, Teaching Tips Tagged With: for parents, for teachers, MilFam, women's history month

January 20, 2016 By admin

6 Things to Consider About Schools When You Move

We are military families. We move. A lot. And everything is fine, kind of, when it’s just you and your spouse and maybe a dog/cat/goldfish. But now you have kids, and they go to school. So your military moves have taken on a WHOLE new dimension: which district has the BEST schools.

Filed Under: MilKids, New School, Parent Tips Tagged With: for parents, MilFam

December 29, 2015 By admin

MilKids Round-Up: Getting Ready for 2016

This calendar year is just about over. For teachers, this means just a few more days to relax (read: stress) before the second half of the school year starts. For parents, you have a few more days to entertain your children before you send them back to school.

Filed Under: MilKids Tagged With: New Year

December 24, 2015 By admin

A Teacher's Christmas Wish List

This is what THIS teacher wants for Christmas. What’s on your list?

Filed Under: MilKids Tagged With: christmas, opinion

November 13, 2015 By admin

Teaching through Deployment

It’s no joke: deployments suck. Suddenly a two parent house is a one parent show, the kids miss their deployed mom or dad, and learning can suffer. But you can use a deployment to help your children learn new skills and build global knowledge.

Filed Under: Deployment, Family, MilKids, Parent Tips Tagged With: Deployment, MilFam

October 21, 2015 By admin

Why Military Families are Awesome at Flat Stanley

Mailing Flat Stanley around the world creates cool connections to other classes and children. But military families still rock at it the most!

Filed Under: Family Fun, MilKids Tagged With: Flat Stanley, MilFam

October 19, 2015 By admin

How to Prepare your Child's School for a Deployment

We are military families, and deployments or extended separations are something that we deal with as part of our lives.

Filed Under: MilKids, School Tips for MilKids Tagged With: Deployment, MilFam, parent-teacher communication

October 4, 2015 By admin

Happy World Teachers' Day!!!

Tomorrow is a holiday, but you won’t ever hear about it or know about it. The people you are celebrating are the one’s who teach your children each and every day. October 5 is World Teachers’ Day!

Filed Under: MilKids Tagged With: Teacher's Day

October 2, 2015 By admin

We need to talk about guns, America

The thing I am most tired of is the live shooter drill training. Every year that I have been a teacher, I have needed to gather my students into the most concealed corner of the classroom. I have had to choke down my own dread and my own tears of fear in order to comfort my students, my children, little boys and girls who should NOT have to think about safety at school in this way.

Filed Under: MilKids Tagged With: lockdown drill, opinion, school safety, school shooting

September 25, 2015 By admin

Bullying Lasts Beyond Childhood

I can guarantee that there is a little girl or little boy out there tonight in tears because her best friends just dumped her, because his lunch money was stolen again, because it seems like the whole world is against them.

Filed Under: MilKids Tagged With: bully, opinion

September 23, 2015 By admin

Bullies

Bullies today are not as obvious or open about their methods. There are rarely bruises to point to to indicate that a bullying event has occurred.
Bullies today, especially female bullies, are sneaky and conniving.

Filed Under: MilKids Tagged With: bully, opinion

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