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10 Things I Learned This Week, Vol 40

November 13, 2011 by Amy, Using Our Words 7 Comments

Lesson #1: When your kindergartener comes home from school telling you he worked on his Facebook, it’s a relief to discover he’s far more literal than virtual. (At least for now.)

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Introducing the Class Clown

September 8, 2011 by Amy, Using Our Words 10 Comments

Today I’ll be sending Little off to his first day of preschool. This isn’t new. I’ve been through a first day of preschool before. It wasn’t pretty. Big was painfully shy, a quiet observer of the world around him. He also happened to be in a class full of rowdy—really rowdy—boys. Boys who, from the […]

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