5 Tips for Preparing Your Child for Preschool

by Susan September 6, 2011 1 comment

It’s that time of year again… for me it is the most emotional time of the year. Julia is going into first grade this year, so it’s my fourth time sending her to school. She [...]
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Turns out Sophia is more like her sister Julia than we thought…

by Susan September 16, 2010 3 comments

I’m always talking about how different Julia and Sophia are… but today I had a reminder that they are more alike than I may have thought. It turns out Sophia is following the same pattern [...]
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No Preschool Tears for these Two Two-Year-Olds

by Susan September 9, 2010 13 comments

It may be because they have each other or it may be because they both desperately long to do everything their older siblings do… but our two two-year-olds were completely ready to start Preschool. They’re [...]
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On the front page…

by Janice September 15, 2009 16 comments

I am a weekly columnist over at Guideposts.com, but every time they choose to feature one of my posts in the main marquee on the home page I get excited. There is something about seeing [...]
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My first trip away…

by Susan August 3, 2009 10 comments

I was away for 8 days. It was my first trip without my girls. I weaned Sophia a few weeks earlier in preparation. I explained to Julia that she was the big sister and if [...]
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Julia’s separation anxiety is starting to ease…

by Susan October 14, 2008 16 comments

It is getting better. Julia’s extreme preschool separation anxiety is easing. Each class she cries less and less. During her last class she only cried for a few minutes when I left and she only [...]
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How do I help my preschooler beat separation anxiety?

by Susan September 25, 2008 53 comments

I’m sitting on the floor in the hallway outside my 3 year old daughter Julia’s preschool class listening to her cry for her Mommy. The perfection of her first day was short-lived. Day 2 brought [...]
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