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We woke up that morning to a win in Georgia – what a relief. We thought today there will be some shenanigans, but who cares? And that’s when my daughter said, “Wow, could they have really...
My kids go to school right downtown near the National Mall. We’ve always taught them to be aware and ask them every day, ‘did you look at the headlines? Did you skim the newspaper?’ It’s not...
Rochelle and Khalif, both attorneys, live in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol with their two children, Amina (16) and Aaron (13). For eight years Rochelle served as Ethics Counsel in Congress with an office in...
The stories that really stuck with me were those she told about her college years. She was not only the first woman in her family to attend college, she was the first in her whole town....
We’re telling stories about intergenerational relationships. Prepared Parents team member, Rebecca, shares this remembrance of her grandmother. Happy 100th, Lois!“Growing up, my grandmother, Lois, always told me I was her favorite granddaughter. It was always followed...
Prepared UNBOXED Guest Master Teacher, Aidan O'Dowd-Ryan, who wrote the curriculum for the UNBOXED digital learning kit, The Science of Bread, teaches Honors Biology and AP Environmental Science at Walter Payton College Preparatory High School in...
Geoff, Esther and their kids, Joshua (age 12) and Sophia (age 15) live just outside LA. They are Prepared Parents MVPs who took some time to tell us how their kids are doing with remote learning...
Family connections are important to Prepared Parents team member, Pilar. She lives in Oakland, California not far from grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, so her boys benefit from lots of intergenerational relationships. Pilar’s fascinated by family...
Tammy McLeod is one of the 43 chaplains at Harvard University. During this season she is helping students process their ambiguous loss because of COVID-19.I think the biggest thing we’ve seen in doing a lot of...
Zach’s injury did not just affect his parents. Tammy tells us how it touched his siblings, Chelsea, Nate, and Soren. “The loss of Zach as he was changed the other kids’ lives forever. I remember Chelsea saying,...
“When COVID hit I thought, now the whole entire world is going into ambiguous loss,” says Tammy McLeod, co-author with her husband, Pat of Hit Hard, One Family’s Journey of Letting Go of What Was –...
Kamaria’s mom, Shaunice, is all about solving problems and raising a strong, independent daughter. She tells us about the challenges and rewards of raising a kid-preneur.“We’re really big on not complaining, but on having a solution....
Kamaria and her mom, Shaunice started Brown Girls Stationery (https://browngirlsstationery.com/) four years ago when at seven years old, Kamaria couldn’t find any stationery that represented her. She tells us how it all started.“I was looking for...
Teddy is one of the newest members of the Prepared Parents team. You’ll be hearing a lot from her on our social media channels in coming days. She lives in Florida with her husband, Jamel...
The latest UNBOXED by Prepared Parents complete digital learning kit is here! The Book of Time is all about collecting oral histories. UNBOXED curriculum designer, Eileen Murphy Buckley, Founder of ThinkCERCA, tells us about it.“The whole...
"I’d been running myself ragged; I wasn’t sleeping. I was trying to do everything for the kids because I wasn’t there for them until I got home from work around 6:00 at night. With all the...
Jennifer Sheppard made the decision to leave her corporate job a few years before the pandemic. Her primary motivation was to be more available to her two children, Paige and Brady, but the shift enabled her...
UNBOXED Guest Master Teacher, Noel Perkins, has a vision for making math accessible to all students and confesses to being super passionate about the subject. She’s designed this month’s UNBOXED to ignite a kid’s passion for...