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Under-expected Achievement – One year Teaching K-12, and Counting!
Thankful for my social media network, my anniversary teaching K-12 in my public school district would have passed me by! Without my...
Doreen Lwanga
Apr 4, 20163 min read
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Happy Thanksgiving 2015!
Happy Thanksgiving America and the World! Wherever you are! I have not witness a very warm Thanksgiving Day in a long while! It was 55F...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 26, 20153 min read
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An article in Chicago Tribune profiles former Stanford Dean Lythcott-Haims, among other writers like Jessica Lahey (“The Gift of Failure”...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 24, 20154 min read
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Parenting on a Shoe-String of Hope!
Parenting is not for the faint-hearted! Bet you have heard that plenty of times …! If you have not experienced parenting as yet, I am not...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 16, 20154 min read
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Life is Not All About Work…..
Suddenly, a wave of sadness engulfed me….for a moment, as I sat down in the Library with Child of Mine [who by now you know I refer to...
Doreen Lwanga
Aug 29, 20157 min read
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Of puppy crushes and hard-on – Let’s Talk About “S” Bebe
Parents, guardians and educators of young minds, let’s imagine this happened to any of you. I will not disclose my sources…but as a...
Doreen Lwanga
Aug 28, 20156 min read
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Motherhood: This Holy Sweet Grail…
Oh! Motherhood! A Happy Belated Mother’s Day 2015, everyone! At least if you claim to be a mother. And to all the baby mommas,...
Doreen Lwanga
May 19, 20152 min read
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Parenting: Another Chance at Living Selflessly
My Little Ninja Perhaps no other life experience has given me the opportunity to learn to live selflessly like Parenting. And I do not...
Doreen Lwanga
Mar 16, 20153 min read
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I Never Signed Up to do “Men’s Work….but…
Perhaps, those who know me maybe surprised that I am making genderized statements. After all, I am that kind of girl often pigeon-holed...
Doreen Lwanga
Jan 5, 20154 min read
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New Year Resolutions from A Mother to A Wimpy Child
I have heard people claiming that making New Year Resolutions is so cliché! Everyone goes on to breaks their resolutions, so why bother?...
Doreen Lwanga
Jan 4, 20152 min read
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Lost In Translation…Between Santa and Religion…
I am revisiting the discussion about parents celebrating with their children, or is it children celebrating with their parents, or...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 26, 20144 min read
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Dear Parents, Your Kids Celebrations Are Not About You…!
I typically do not write about family affairs. I have a self-censored rule that “I shall NOT wash my family dirty linen in public. Even...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 26, 20146 min read
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Kids are Cultural “Whores”: Wait, can you say the “W” with Kids…?
It is amazing how quickly kids switch cultural identify. Well, if like me, you believe that “language is culture”, that’s what I am...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 25, 20144 min read
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Different shades of Special Needs
“There is no one student who is similar to the other. And no one student behaves the same everyday,” so she said to me. I cannot agree...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 24, 20144 min read
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When “Study Hard and You will Do Good is not enough, and Why the Need for Role Models
illustration source: NYT, “A Formula for Happiness”, December 14, 2013 (Arthur C. Brooks) Very often we hear these ‘words of the wise’:...
Doreen Lwanga
Oct 21, 20144 min read
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Teaching Children about Columbus Day in an era of Contested Knowledge and Truth Formation
This past Monday, October 13, 2014, was Columbus Day, when America remembers Christopher Columbus. So, my first grader and I engaged in a...
Doreen Lwanga
Oct 15, 20146 min read
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Not Everyone is Sophie, John, Jane or Matt: Diversity Consciousness in the Classroom
Recently, I was at an teacher training workshop, where the speaker for a session on “Qualities of a Good Substitute Teacher” mentioned...
Doreen Lwanga
Sep 22, 20145 min read
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In Praise of Teachers
I recently resumed private coaching, and it occurred to me that it is as well, I give a shout out to teachers! The not-so-highly sang...
Doreen Lwanga
Sep 18, 20148 min read
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Letting children learn the way they read! Lessons in Parenting and Homeschooling a Toddler
Call me a terrible mother! But I am a self-confessed Uganda-Chinese-French-America parent, and in that order! Uganda, because that is my...
Doreen Lwanga
Jul 13, 20145 min read
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Christmas for the non-religous
I stopped celebrating Christmas as a religious event, about ten or more years ago. I cannot exactly recall. But I still observe it as...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 25, 20135 min read
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