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Continue reading →: Where we Grow, Where we BelongAs I look out my window at the giant tent on the field below and watch box after box of new spirit gear arrive, I can’t help but hum, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year…” I know. It is not Christmas. But you know those back-to-school commercials with…
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Continue reading →: Their Perception, Our ParentingThis summer, I read Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara. The book is wildly popular, but for those who haven’t read it, its premise is that there is remarkable power in giving people more than they expect. One quote still gives me pause, and I find myself returning to it throughout…
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Continue reading →: 200 Lunches and the Power of MatteringOn Wednesday, we celebrated a campus-wide day of service at Tatnall. In the Lower School, that meant coming together to do something simple and important: make lunch for our neighbors. Each grade level donated different items for bagged lunches for Emmanuel Dining Room in Wilmington. Our Upper Elementary students used…
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Continue reading →: What I missed on the drive home…I am reading a fantastic book, Peak Mind, by Amishi P. Jha, recommended to me by my colleague and Upper School teacher, Stuart Lindberg. I cannot stop talking about it to anyone who will listen. Jha takes readers through the research on how attention works, but for the sake of…
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Continue reading →: Are we Leaving Enough Room for Sleep?Let’s talk sleep. I say this from a place completely free of judgment. I have three children of my own, and I promise I’m including all three of them in this sweeping statement: mornings were rough this week! We could blame the rain or the cold. But if we’re honest,…
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Continue reading →: Being Able to Read Is Not the Same as Being a ReaderI have three wildly different readers in my house. My oldest is an avid reader. She always has been. She gets lost in books, and her bedroom holds more books than clothes. According to an unofficial standard I once read and have chosen never to question, you only need 1,000…
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Continue reading →: We Belong to Each OtherIt doesn’t matter how many times I hear it. Despite how hard I try to suppress it, when the Tatnall community stands together, as we did this morning, to sing the Tatnall School Song, tears inevitably fill my eyes. Part of it is the moment itself. Hundreds of voices singing…
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Continue reading →: The 90s Summer Trend: What the Research Actually SaysEvery once in a while, the internet gives us a parenting trend that makes me pause mid-scroll and think, “Okay, this one might actually have something to it.” This summer, that trend is the “’90s Summer.” If you have not seen it yet, the idea is basically this: give kids…
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Continue reading →: A Story of Children Becoming: Reflections on the 2025–2026 Lower School YearDear Lower School Families, There are moments in a school year that seem to hold everything at once. A kindergartner and a fifth-grade buddy are leading Community Gathering together. A student takes a deep breath before speaking in front of classmates. A group of children testing, revising, and trying again…
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Continue reading →: Summer Work, Summer Brains, and Why “A Little Bit” MattersEvery year around this time, I can almost feel the collective exhale begin. The lunches are limping to the finish line. The backpacks have become archaeological digs. The pencils are either missing, broken, or somehow sticky. The calendar is full of ceremonies, field days, end-of-year celebrations, and the kind of…
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