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“Mama,” Daniel told me the other day, “I know how to count in Spanish!”“You do?” I was impressed. Who knew Pre-K was so advanced! “Can I hear it?”“Well, I only know ‘three,’” he said. “I think it’s ‘tray-del.’”

It’s the last day of school! I am so very sad to see first grade end. After the excitement of kindergarten last year, first grade—at least from this parent’s perspective—was a breeze.Leo could do his homework in the after-school program. His teacher emailed once a week about the assignments for

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“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.”School’s out for summer:The schools in the Baltimore metropolitan area are almost all closed now for the summer break. The laughter of children is in the air.Today is the last day for my daughter who teaches third grade at Gunpowder Elementary

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Archbishop Lori kicked off the fourth annual Fortnight for Freedom on Sunday (June 21) at the Baltimore’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. With the theme “Freedom to Bear Witness” to the truth of the Gospel, the fortnight runs until the Fourth of

For Father’s Day our sons were so busy not telling their father what his gift was that of course he figured it out. “It’s not an Estes rocket, Baba.””Did he just tell Baba a lie, Mama?”We had to get John an Estes rocket, and when we saw that they made one

Our sons have decided they are going to open a gas station together. Their only disagreement is over which one of them will get to do the best job in the world—which is, of course, this.I suggested maybe they could take turns.

Photo by Marissa Elion of SouthFloridaPaddle—For many years I worked with young people as their Campus Minister at John Carroll, encouraging them to make a difference in the world. It’s a theme that I repeat often in my talks, my prayers and invocations, and my writings. “A single, ordinary person

Because Leo is interested in Garfield comics, I made lasagna for our Sunday dinner. He was excited to eat it, but he mentioned more than once how good it would taste without the meat and cheese.So the next night I took cooked lasagna noodles and a jar of spaghetti sauce,

“You are going to LOVE Inside Out,” my 8-year-old niece told me. “It is the best movie!”So I took her, two of her siblings, and our two sons to see it. Our boys claimed they didn’t like it, but they laughed many times and asked enough questions that I’m not

Parents have long worried about what goes on at college. Catholic parents, in particular, worry that their children will fall away from the faith, with peers pressuring them into abandoning religious practices and liberal professors swaying them from their religious beliefs. Concerned parents might go as far as keeping their