Holiday-Christmas-Concert

Happy Holidays to everyone! On Thursday our school held our Holiday Concert. Below I’ve highlighted 2 of the performance videos. We called it our Holiday Concert, but in hindsight it was just a Christmas Concert. It wasn’t intentional, it was unintentional bias, but all of the songs performed were either Christmas songs, or songs that […]

YouTube Generation

When I told my daughter that rather than taking photos of her musical theater Christmas show solo, I actually filmed it… she immediately asked me, “Can you put me on YouTube?” I obliged. After Cassie saw the video she momentarily didn’t want it up. Why? Because she was sick for 3 days before-hand with a […]

“The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids”

How Not to Talk to Your Kids: The Inverse Power of Praise. A Feature in the The New York Times, By Po Bronson. Thanks to Kris from Wandering Ink who sent me this link. I will let the article speak for itself: Dweck sent four female research assistants into New York fifth-grade classrooms. The researchers […]