This is the first post on our blog, and it exists because of a pattern we noticed at pickup.
The same questions come up, week after week, from different families. Should I be worried that she is not talking much? How do I get him to eat a vegetable? Why does she nap here and not at home? Is it normal that he bit someone?
Every one of those deserves more than a thirty-second answer at a doorway while someone is putting on a boot. So we are going to write the longer answers down.
What this will be
Practical. Things you can actually do, on a Tuesday, with the equipment you already own.
Honest. Including the parts that are not reassuring. If the honest answer is "this is going to be hard for a month," we will say that rather than something more comfortable.
Specific to here. Edmonton winters, Mill Woods parks, Alberta subsidy paperwork, the schools our children go on to. General parenting advice written for somewhere with a mild climate is only half useful to us.
About what we actually do. When we write about handling tantrums or settling a new child, we are describing what happens in these rooms, not summarising a textbook.
What it will not be
Not a marketing channel. If a post is only useful for persuading someone to enrol, it is not worth writing.
Not medical advice. We are educators. Where something needs a doctor, we will say so.
Not a substitute for talking to us. If something in your child's day worries you, the conversation at the door is still better than anything we publish. Come and find us.
What we would like from you
Tell us what to write about. The most useful posts will be the ones that answer a question a parent actually asked, and we do not always know which questions people are too polite to raise.
If you are wondering about something, it is very likely another eleven families are wondering the same thing.
