Stumbling Through Work

Send us Fan Mail Hollywood does not end when the credits roll. It shows up in your classroom as Spider-Man shoes, superhero scripts in dramatic play, and the kind of big feelings that lead to “You can’t be Spider-Man because I’m Spider-Man.” I unpack how early childhood educators can stop fighting popular culture and start teaching through it with a clear professional lens: storytelling, language development, sequencing, perspective taking, and social-emotional learning are all hiding inside ...

Send us Fan Mail A kid has one rough week and suddenly the whole building “knows how they are.” That’s not insight, that’s a storyline. We start by borrowing a concept from reality TV: the villain edit. When adults stitch together a few moments and turn them into a child’s identity, we stop teaching skills and start managing reputations. I unpack why labels like “bad,” “aggressive,” “defiant,” or “too much” can be a quiet form of bias in early childhood education, especially for Black childre...

Send us Fan Mail Viral debates about who “counts” as an expert can feel like entertainment, until you realize early childhood education lives with the consequences. I start with the online credibility mess and pull it back to the question directors, teachers, and families face every day: who do we trust, and why. Confidence sells, but children deserve competence, evidence, and leaders who refuse to outsource their judgment. From there, I dig into Indiana’s proposed childcare licensing change...

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Send us Fan Mail Toy Story 5 has everyone arguing about kids and screens again and I want to pull this conversation back to reality. Screen time isn’t automatically “good” or “bad,” and the research doesn’t support bumper-sticker parenting. What matters is context: what children watch, who watches with them, what you talk about after, and what the screen replaces. A family movie that sparks pretend play, drawing, building, and storytelling is a very different experience than hours of algorith...