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Aha! Parenting - Dr. Laura Markham > Welcome!

Aha! Parenting - Dr. Laura Markham > Welcome!

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Jane Austen's World How to be a calm parent I’ve always been a dreamer. Oh yes .. I was going to change the world. I was going to raise the best children ever to walk the earth. I was never going to make the same mistakes OTHER parents made. No way. Then I had children. My first lesson in patience happened immediately while sitting alone with two crying infants for months at a time. People always ask me how I managed twin infants and I always respond the same way … “With a lot of tears.” Staying calm as a parent may come easier for some more than others. Yeah, where’s the handbook? I call it Parenting from the Heart. I’ve learned so many lessons on this topic in the last six years. In fact, it is my great wish that parents would read this blog and change the way they are parenting so that they, too, can be the change they wish to see in the world. Original Photo by Tanya_Little via Flickr

Conscience Alley ( Drama Strategies) 1000 Awesome Things | A time-ticking countdown of 1000 awesome things Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood by Michael Chabon When I was growing up, our house backed onto woods, a thin two-acre remnant of a once-mighty wilderness. This was in a Maryland city where the enlightened planners had provided a number of such lingering swaths of green. They were tame as can be, our woods, and yet at night they still filled with unfathomable shadows. In the winter they lay deep in snow and seemed to absorb, to swallow whole, all the ordinary noises of your body and your world. Scary things could still be imagined to take place in those woods. It was the place into which the bad boys fled after they egged your windows on Halloween and left your pumpkins pulped in the driveway. A minor but undeniable aura of romance was attached to the history of Maryland, my home state: refugee Catholic Englishmen, cavaliers in ringlets and ruffs, pirates, battles, the sack of Washington, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Harriet Tubman, Antietam. This is a mistaken notion, in my view. There are reasons for all of this.

Abundance Blog at Marelisa Online | Creativity + Productivity + Simplicity = Abundance Bedsharing & SIDS – Why We Have it All Wrong | Sarah Ockwell-Smith So today Carpenter et al published a horribly unreliable and flawed analysis of bedsharing. This scaremongering piece of ‘science’ (I use that term loosely) does not add to public understanding of the safety of bedsharing – far from it, it shrouds it in more myth and mystery and, in my opinion, is incredibly dangerous. Why dangerous you ask? Their bold statement that bedsharing is 5 times more dangerous than a baby sleeping in it’s own sleep space may be incorrect (more later), but worse than being incorrect it is a claim that will doubtless scare thousands of tired and highly vulnerable new parents around the world. Those very parents who through sheer exhaustion are liable to fall asleep on a sofa with their baby, or in bed at night after a long night feed, babe in arms surrounded by fluffy pillows and cushions, perhaps their systems full of the opiate based analgesic they are still taken to recover from their C-Section. Consider this scenario: Get where I’m going? Sarah Ockwell-Smith

The Daily Bunny Want What You Have: A Daily Schedule for Stay-at-Home Moms Like this post? Share it! After you complete the Weekly Work Schedule, it’s time to move on to your Daily Schedule. I really like having a schedule, because it gives structure to my day. My first few months as a stay-at-home mother were incredibly frustrating, because I was accustomed to working in an office, with a structured routine and defined expectations. I don’t follow my schedule to the minute, and neither should you. It’s easy to set up your daily schedule in an Excel spreadsheet, with your waking hours in a vertical column, broken down by half hour. Next, move on to things that don’t have specific start times, but that you have to get done. Don’t forget to schedule time to just play with your kids. My School Year Daily Schedule looks like this:

Pasta INGREDIENTS1 pound uncooked pasta 1 tablespoon canola oil 1 tsp minced garlic1/2 cup chopped red onion 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite sized pieces1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 teaspoons dried oregano salt and pepper to taste 1/2 cup sliced black, green or kalamata olives (we use green) DIRECTIONSBring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook pasta in boiling water for 8 to 10 minutes, or until al dente; drain. Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add garlic and onion, and saute for 2 minutes.

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