The Homework Crunch: Do Schools Ask Too Much of Families?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 11, 2013 | Doing Life Together, Family

How does your family handle The Homework Crunch? For seven years, this was the reigning column that I wrote in my local paper—the one that received the most comments and feedback, only to be surpassed by Brat Is Not a Learning Disability. I didn’t think...

Not Your Grandmother's Math

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 30, 2012 | Family

Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario and Saskatchewan. And–gasp!–sometimes I actually write about stuff other than sex. Lately I’ve been preoccupied with The Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex,...

Stressing Out our Children

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 13, 2010 | Family

Photo by openpad I have a dear 17-year-old friend named Rachel. She is a delight; intelligent, articulate, motivated, kind, funny. We can have conversations about literature, morality, God, and just plain life. She’s in the youth program that I run at...