by Darsa Morrow | Aug 28, 2015 | Community, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
UPCOMING PARENT TALK AND WORKSHOPS – Mackintosh Academy is pleased to partner with award-winning educator and retired science teacher John Paull to help you learn to use science to inspire your child(ren)’s curiosity and re-ignite your own sense of discovery in...
by Darsa Morrow | Aug 17, 2015 | Community, Growing Learners, News & Events, Our Students
I was recently asked by a parent of a “fiery” 5-year-old whose emotional intensity levels frequently overshadow her burgeoning self-regulatory skills, for some effective self-soothing techniques to teach her. Here’s my response: Emotional regulation is a learned skill...
by Darsa Morrow | May 13, 2015 | Community, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Our Students
When my oldest son was in the first grade, he used to feel sick to his stomach every morning before school. It got to the point where I was making special pumpkin custard—his favorite dessert—for breakfast in the attempt to entice him to eat something, anything,...
by Darsa Morrow | May 5, 2015 | Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
In Boulder on May 6th, nationally acclaimed conscious parenting coach Michael Vladeck will teach you how to raise grounded and self-aware children within the distractions and disruptions of the internet and digital media …without the power struggles. Gain a...
by Darsa Morrow | May 5, 2015 | Growing Learners, Littleton, News & Events, Our Students, Student Work
Two weeks ago, our daughter Greta and her classmates undertook a Littleton Campus rite of passage: the 5/6 field trip to Washington, DC. Mack families approach the cost of the trip in different ways – some parents underwrite it, some kids raise funds, some families...