New Look—and Another Look at Positive Attributes

Thanks to all the wonderful people at Responsive Classroom, you’re now seeing a new-year, new-decade look for my blog, Yardsticks4-14.com. You’ll find that it’s now easier to post and find comments from other readers on any topic of interest related to child development, parenting, teaching, school, and educational issues. It’s also now easier to be [...]

The Whole Child Goes to School

As every parent knows, the whole child goes to school. Every boo-boo, band-aid, bad dream, forgotten homework, lunch, band instrument, sneakers. Children come to school every day full of hopes and dreams, a remembered list of spelling words, equations, places and dates, ideas for class projects and skits. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question [...]