Educating Alice

I’m always on the lookout for great books to share with my daughter, who is now a sixth grader. Since she became an independent reader, one of our favorite activities is to read the same book and then discuss it. I’ve even taken on the role of moderating a girls’ book group for her and her friends at a lovely (and lively!) local independent bookstore, The Book Works. A year or so ago, during one...

Put Down That Apple Tchotchke!

The holidays are once again upon us and the season’s most important decision is at hand. What do we get our children’s teachers for holiday presents? After all, they are with our children for more waking hours during the day than we are. They warmly greet our children every weekday morning, they teach our darlings just about everything they’ll need to know to be successful in life, and they...

New Feature: Friday Finds

We are excited to announce a new feature at An Educated Choice called Friday Finds. Each Friday we will highlight a blog, website, Twitter feed, or Facebook fan page that we think is interesting and relevant to people who are interested in private school education in San Diego. The selected site will be introduced via a blog posting, in our Twitter feed, and on our Facebook fan page. Also, every site that is...

Friday Finds: Next In Learning

For the debut of our new Friday Find feature, we have selected NextInLearning.com, a blog by the people at Wizz-e.com, the award winning publisher of interactive eBooks for children. I learned of the NextInLearning.com blog when a Twitter post by Jeanette McLeod, one of the publishers at Wizz-e, caught my eye: Children who blog, text, use social networking websites more confident writers: National Literacy Trust...

Friday Finds: Happy Healthy Hip Parenting

Happy Healthy Hip Parenting is our choice for this week’s Friday Finds. Founded in 2007 by Sondra Santos LaBrie, Happy Healthy Hip Parenting helps parents reduce stress, resolve conflicts and enjoy family life even more. Ms. LaBrie is a Certified Parent Educator through the International Network for Children and Families and offers a variety of parenting workshops including Redirecting Children’s...