Child's best teachers are parents It would be easy not to write this column. They are important matters. Often, it is a place where educational research and state mandates do not go. Life today is full of big issues but, ultimately, the teaching of a child is a small and private matter.
Children learn in little ways.
This is good to remember, now that summer is upon us. Children will be at home. Families will spend more time together. This, not September, is the crucial learning time of the year. Educators tell us that we parents are our children's first and best teachers.