Brit Munsterteiger

A comfort zone is a space, physical, emotional or mental, where a person feels at ease, supported and content. For some people establishing a comfort zone is incredibly difficult taking lots of curating and management. For others, comfort zones are easily created in new settings, across various developmental stages. As parents, I don't think we talk about comfort zone management enough. It is a topic that can often cause disagreement among parents, parents and children, parents and...

As February approaches many parents of some of our youngest students are weighing their options for Kindergarten enrollment. Regardless of the actual date of a district/state cut off for enrollment, the question of whether to "red-shirt" a youngster has been a debate among parents for decades. A "red-shirt Kindergarten year" essentially means waiting an extra year to enroll a child in Kindergarten. In most situations, the closer a child's birthdate is to the district's specified cut-off, the...