Just as I was worrying about how much sleep my teens are getting, our school district was meeting to discuss school starting times for each grade. The are proposing a start time of 8am for grades 5 to 9. And a 9am start time for grades K-4 and 10-12.
The school is actually proposing these staggered start times to help with the congested traffic during morning drop-off and afternoon pick-ups. Our schools are all on the same campus. So the high schools, middle schools, and high school are all right next to each other. And all the kids from Kindergarten through …read more

The Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato are all performing at the “Kids’ Inaugural Concert” on Monday night. Kids (and adults) can watch it on Disney at 8pm ET.
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Since we have kids from age 6 to 16, the teens often get the short end of the stick. If we go to the movie theater as a family they have to watch a kiddie movie (although sometimes they do go to another movie by themselves while the rest of us go to the kiddie movie). We have family game night and we play the junior version. We plan a family outing and it’s seldom what the teens want to do; a picnic at the park and playground or Disney on Ice rather than a hockey or baseball game where …read more

My kids are smack dab in the middle of finals. At least they are supposed to be. They were supposed to have a couple finals on Friday. A few more today. And finish up tomorrow. But we got a couple inches of snow on Friday so school was cancelled. Today the temp was somewhere around -15 with a windchill closer to -30 so school was cancelled again. Assuming it doesn’t snow tomorrow (which it’s supposed to) they are just going to have a shortened day and forget about finals until after winter break.
So instead of staying up all night to …read more

The U.S. music industry decided to stop suing people for sharing copyrighted songs.
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