School + Education

Through Her Eyes: The Teenage Perspective is a short series highlighting the written works of two young students from Marshall School. During Marshall’s iTerm series, eight writers took a class with teacher (and Duluth Moms Blog contributor) Heather Call...

These gray winter days have us feeling a bit blah. Our routines seem monotonous and uninspired. We need something to jolt us out of our funk (More coffee? A vacation?). Similarly, kids probably are feeling like they’re going through the...

Parenting - I knew it would come with a lot of hard decisions and hard days. I knew it would involve little sleep and sometimes little patience.  What I didn't know was how it would make me doubt my intuition.  My...

The first day of school is coming! I probably don't need to remind you of that fact. School supplies have been on shelves for weeks now and some mornings already have the fall feel in the air. The topic...

I was involved in a car accident a few weeks ago. Saying “I got into a car accident” really isn’t accurate because the other driver accepted full responsibility. I was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Telling...

Every parent is familiar with the surge of panic that comes when you realize a new school year is quickly approaching. You glance at the calendar and see that there are two, maybe three weeks to get everything in...

January is national radon awareness and radon action month. Has your home or living space been tested recently? The only way to find out if radon is in your home is by testing. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)...

The new school year is here and I'm reflecting back on a very important lesson I learned last year while attending ECFE classes with my son. The teacher began using the term "shark music" as she reviewed a handout and...

I remember it like yesterday, and working in the college readiness field, I think about it all the time. I was obsessed with my college search. In 10th grade my best friend and I would spend hours reading the...

Want to hear a silly confession? I began researching preschools for my daughter before she was even born. By the time she was a year old, I had narrowed our choices down to three. But maybe you’re thinking, “That’s...