1) Give your children more unstructured and unsupervised outdoor playtime with friends of various ages.
“Play is nature’s way of teaching children how to solve their own problems, control their own impulses,
by Laura Sandefer January 10, 2013
I was the mom who ran out onto the basketball court to tie my son’s shoes.
My issue was not about shoes. It was about solving
By Laura Sandefer June 13, 2016
The two most important commitments we make as Acton parents are:
To be learning something – always.
To write a Family Plan.
These two action items
By Laura Sandefer March 14, 2018
We can boil the Acton Academy systems to just two choices that ensure a happy, fruitful learning journey:
Be kind.
Do some work every day.
Simple,
By Laura Sandefer January 5, 2017
It was a battle we were not winning.
Every time Jeff or I took a stand to limit “tech time” at home, it would stick for
By Laura Sandefer December 14, 2018
Why talk about failure being a good thing?
It is not good. It’s terrible. Real failure hurts.
But it is necessary.
For deep, lasting learning to happen, failure is necessary.
We
By Laura Sandefer
The wonder of the Hero’s Journey is that it honors each individual while holding up the importance of the community surrounding that individual.
For families, this brings up the
By Laura Sandefer January 26, 2022
Is my child missing out by not being at a traditional school with the bigger class sizes and all those extracurriculars? Is my child even
By Laura Sandefer January 20, 2022
Jeff and I received this note yesterday from an Acton mom just as we were heading out to attend her son’s college scholarship signing ceremony.