Last week, we introduced the Discover Summer Reading Program. Each week, for the next 6 weeks, we are making a few stories available to download based on a popular summer
When my daughter was in third grade, my husband and I showed up for a parent-teacher conference where we were told that our child was spending too much time reading
More than two hundred years ago when William Wordsworth wrote “the world is too much with us,” little did he know how much the world would be with us today.
If you are a parent of a school aged kid, you’ve probably heard about how students lose around two months of reading, writing, and math skills over their summer break and have
I’m feeling very Zen today. It’s certainly not because it is the first day of summer break, since that has already resulted in an entire box of cereal being dropped
Today is the summer solstice. That means that those of us in the northern hemisphere will experience the longest day and the shortest night of the year with more than
I have a friend on Facebook who frequently comments on how fathers are often not included in the conversation when it comes to parenting. Someone will post an appeal for
Before I jump onto my mommy soapbox about DVD players in the car, I need to be completely honest: the eight-year-old inside me is jealous. That girl would have loved a
by Cheryl Clark, Vice President, Programs, Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) Summer is a time to kick back, relax and enjoy warm lazy days away from school. For many children, summer
Did you drink any lemonade this past weekend? If so, it may have been sold as a fundraiser during Alex’s Lemonade Days, an annual weekend of lemonade stands where all
