My son is ten years old and three weeks away from the end of fourth grade. He’s missed twenty-four days of school this year, mostly for stomach aches, and a strep throat in the beginning of the... Read more >>

“Let there be no filthiness (obscenity, indecency) nor foolish and sinful (silly and corrupt) talk, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting or becoming; but instead voice your thankfulness {to... Read more >>

Wearing a black taffeta evening gown underneath my Marks and Spencer anorak, I waited. I didn’t normally dress like this to collect my daughter from school; it was the result of my inability to... Read more >>

My whole life, I’ve been accused of being too serious. I confess this is umm, probably, mostly ... okay, okay … it’s totally true. My kids have lightened me up considerably.... Read more >>

Starting a new job can make us feel like we’ve gone back in time to our first day of junior high school. We want people to like us, but we don’t want to seem too eager. We hope we’ve... Read more >>

When Kyle C. moved from Singapore to St. Louis the summer before his junior year, he was not looking forward to it. “I had a ‘get-in-and-get-out’ mentality.” After he was cut... Read more >>

In the middle of my seventh grade year, due to financial reasons, my family and I moved back to Middleburg, and my mother decided she wanted me to attend my old private school. I was nervous and... Read more >>

The world of private school is a very unusual world. I’m not talking about Gossip Girl–style antics with rich kids running around in limos with no parental supervision, getting drunk and... Read more >>