Posts by Amy@STL

Thanks CatholicMama! Never tried skating. Should do that! In winters, we do libraries, children museum, zoo ( has indoor stuff), aquarium etc. I just wish it was easier to find playmates

I am sure you are welcome. Many of us are not media free( use ipad, laptop etc), so low TV sounds to me a perfect fit here:) Winters are so tough:( My son also loves books and the only "media" he gets to see is Curios George, rather its...

Summer is easy for us too. Where I live it's short so I run into this most of the year. Thanks for letting me know I am not alone:) ..

Hello, I joined the group today. I grew up in a almost TV free home ( we watched an hour once a week, and it was a child friendly show). I never realized it but I am so thankful my parents did that. I had friends who watched TVs and...

Let me start by saying in an ideal world, I would be surrounded by TV free families but we are the only ones we know who are TV free. Its hard enough to find like minded ( or rather AP tolerant) friends with kids so I would rather...

I quit my well paying, highly satisfying job when my DS was 11 months ( and had just started daycare). He is 3 years now and not a day goes by that I don't think of my friends who kept working and are now well established in their...

I used Purist in my post and absolutely did not mean to imply our native languages are in any way superior to English. I have nothing but respect for USA, English, the culture and its people. I only meant it in the context of teaching...

OP, reading book has helped me immensely. And the montessori mom blogs. I am not crafty at all, can't invent stuff on the fly. The only thing that I did naturally was have a almost battery free, gadget free kind of home, but that's...

 Good point, I was thinking of 2000 Pulitzer prize winner, author Jhumpa Lahiri.   Kids find a way to bully the best of names 

No idea how "tough" these are to American tongue, just some names I feel "may be" easy :) All of these are people/babies I know who are in...