Blogs for Jan, 2010

Meetings held in Mansfield to present options for school renovation

The Mansfield Board of Education will be holding a meeting at Mansfield Middle School Thursday, January 28th at 7:30 pm to discuss the four options that the Board is considering for school maintenance and construction.  As you have probably heard, the choices include options for the construction or renovation of one, two or three elementary schools, as well as an option to maintain the current buildings.  The projected costs of ...

Sweeney Todd To Be Performed At EO Smith

The E.O. Smith Drama Club will present Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, School Edition this February.  The production will be directed by Lenore Grunko with musical direction provided by Ken Clark.  The play is based on a book by Hugh Wheeler with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.  This is the story of the Benjamin Barker, who is banished from London for a crime he didn’t commit.  Barker returns ...

Are you checking out the bookmarks section of this web site?

I hope all of you are checking out the bookmarks section of this web site.  I just posted a great article from the NY Times about the cost of raising an autistic child.  Did you know that it costs parents $72K on average for each autisic child?  Many of the recommended treatments are not covered by insurance.  How do parents afford this?  Especially when time is of extreme importance as early treatment of ...

Planning for College

Help with Planning for College at E.O. Smith

I would highly recommend that, if you are a high school student or the parent of one at E.O. Smith, that you make sure you are registered to use Naviance  through the E.O. Smith High School Guidance Department. 

A college/course planning software program, called Naviance,  is available to parents of high school students through E.O. Smith.  The program allows students and families to investigate, research, track, and ...

Time wasters - all of them!

Facebook. Twitter, MySpace, Cell phones, Blogs, iParentnetwork....

Time wasters. Time thieves.  At least that is how the media has sometimes portrayed them.  Not real.  Online friends?  Get serious.  That's not really human contact.  Those are trivial connections that take up time that we could be spent with our real friends, right?  Those using social media, such as iParentnetwork, are the lonely folks, the isolated.  Social media must adds to that sense of isolation.

Nope.

A ...

The Generation Gap of THIS Century

I read an article the other day that I just had to share.  A little toddler picked up a book and said "Daddy's book!"  How cute, you may think. Except the item in that toddler's hand was a Kindle, an e-book, not a book at all, in the traditional sense.  

It was at that moment that I realized that each generation will have their own little generation gap to deal with and it all ...

Why Facebook may be unwittingly exposing your kid to underage drinking

Facebook wasn't even around five years ago and now it is may be a central part of your teen's social activity. With over 250 million users, it's doubtful that Facebook hasn't impacted your teen's life in some way, even if they are not registered users of the social networking site.

Roughly one third of active users are under the age of 21. One of the revenue streams for Facebook is through advertising. Facebook pages, applications, ...