The Challenges of Letting Your Kids Go
Posted in Ellen's blog on Apr 15th, 2009
Now is the time of year when college seniors are visiting the colleges they have been accepted to, to decide which one to choose. The decision can be agonizing.
“Where will I be happiest?”
“Where will I feel at home?”
“Can I live in a dorm that has no air conditioning?”
“What will I eat if there is no [...]
Posted in Ellen's blog on Mar 26th, 2009
I attended a very informative seminar on Social Media, given by Hilary Topper and her staff at HJMT Communications. Although I knew a bit about social media, especially Facebook, I learned a lot more at this seminar. It got me thinking about how I first got myself into this whole social media thing. A few [...]
Posted in Ellen's blog on Feb 7th, 2009
How many school projects have you “helped” your child with over the years? How many dioramas and posters and reports have you been a part of? I think that we have all been in the position of finding out that a project was “due tomorrow” and joined the mad frenzy to complete it. There is [...]
Posted in Ellen's blog on Jan 28th, 2009
College… It really starts around 11th grade with SATs, SAT2’s, and guidance meetings about getting into college. But it becomes real when the college visits start. Our first visit was a day trip to Connecticut, during the spring of Michael’s junior year. Over the next few months, we made our way to Philadelphia, [...]
Posted in Ellen's blog on Jan 26th, 2009
College..
They start talking about it in Middle School. When my son was in 6th or 7th grade, one of the teachers at back-to-school nite started rattling off the whole course load our children would be required to take for the “college track” through their senior year in HS. If they didn’t follow that track, well, [...]
Posted in Ellen's blog on Jan 19th, 2009
My first election memory involving Michael is the November 1990 election (governor and some other political offices, which I don’t remember). Michael was about 2 months old. While I was standing in line to vote, holding Michael, a poll worker came up to him and asked him “what do you think of the candidates?” As [...]
Posted in Ellen's blog on Jan 15th, 2009
A big “letting go” moment is when your child gets their drivers license. Last year, when I took Michael to Garden City for his road test, I had to stand on the street corner while he was taking his test. Although it was only a few minutes, it felt like forever. That moment [...]
Posted in Ellen's blog on Jan 14th, 2009
Letting go – I think we do it as soon as our kids can walk. Everything after that is part of the process of preparing them (and us) to leave the nest to forge their own path. It starts with kindergarten, which can be emotionally wrenching for a parent. Just seeing those little faces on [...]
Posted in Ellen's blog on Jan 9th, 2009
Winter break is just about over and it is time for Michael to go back for his second semester at Penn. The first semester was very successful. We are getting ready to miss him again. Leaving him last August was very difficult, but we did make it out of the dorm room in once piece. [...]
Posted in Ellen's blog on Jan 5th, 2009
It’s great having teenagers! My college freshman son (college students are always looking for free stuff) told me about this site - hulu.com - it has all sorts of tv shows and some movies that you can watch FOR FREE! The catch - you have to watch some advertising. This is all legal and on [...]