Rising Broadway Star :: Rodney Ingram

settle in friends. this is a long one… do you remember when Disney’s Aladdin hit theaters? i do. i was 12 and it was my junior year at Penn…yes, i was a prodigy… 🙂 (j/k) my Dad had a recording studio in the house. so i waited in earnest to buy the CD when it […]

Chinese + Spanish charter school. are we nuts to pass this up?

i’m 1/2 Chinese.  my husband lived in Argentina for several years. with 1.4 billion Mandarin speaking people in the world, and about 1/2 billion spanish speakers in the world, it’s a no-brainer that our kids should learn these languages. i spoke three languages growing up.  Mandarin, Taiwanese and English.  when we moved back to the […]

how to make a felt and velcro board for kids’ learning

i made this a few years ago for lil G…we use it all the time and he learned his letters quickly.  now Big A is using it…mainly to eat. it’s a simple DIY. get a canvas.  using a staple gun, staple a large piece of felt around the canvas.  staple the velcro.  i got all […]