According to Maria Montessori the founder of the Montessori education system, “The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to age six.” Children are like a sponge in their early years, they absorb everything happens around them. The environment in which they are being brought up and the people with whom they spend most of their time play a significant role in shaping their personalities. Every child is…
Baby Ruth has already been on 3 cross country flights. Her first flight was when she was 10 days old. We flew from San Francisco (where she was born) to Pittsburgh (where I was going to spend the bulk of my maternity leave). All of our flights have been relatively stress free thanks to advanced planning and some smart tips. Here are a few of my tips for a less stressful journey. Space is your friend. If you can afford…
Baby Ruth has already been on 3 cross country flights. Her first flight was when she was 10 days old. We flew from San Francisco (where she was born) to Pittsburgh (where I was going to spend the bulk of my maternity leave). All of our flights have been relatively stress free thanks to advanced planning and some smart tips. Here are a few of my tips for a less stressful journey. (1) Space is your friend. If you…
Words matter both literally and figuratively. I want Ruth to not only love words and languages but to have a mastery of them. Some loves are instinctual and some loves have to be cultivated. If genetics have anything to do with it, Ruth will love learning. She will love words. She will love books. But to support and expand her love of words, I plan to do a bit of cultivation. I am exposing her to books, poetry, music, theater…
Hey O Squad! Life abroad can throw things at you that you have never had to face. I’ve been Black and abroad for a long time, but I can honestly say I’ve never dealt with scorpions or a global pandemic of this level. Lockdown in Guatemala has been something else. Luckily our small town in Guatemala doesn’t have any know Corvid19 cases, but it does have scorpions. Check out this video where I document our adventures as 2 Black women…