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Kim Kleeman, President and CEO of Shakespeare Squared, is a former educator and knows what works—and what doesn’t—in the classroom. This blog contains her thoughts on everything from the pending teacher shortage to No Child Left Behind to entrepreneurship and working parents.
The Sweet Spot
Posted on May 19, 2010 at 01:22 PM
My friends keep telling me that my husband and I are at the point in our lives known as the “sweet spot.” With three children ages 12, 6, and 5, we are apparently in parenting bliss—we have no babies in diapers and no teenagers.
However, while I will agree that this is a fun and exciting time, it definitely has its own unique set of challenges. I may not have a teenager, but I do have a tween: a full-blown teenager-in-training. Other parents with tweens understand the difficulties I am talking about. Many of these children are already going through puberty. They are technology savvy, having grown up in the age of smartphones and computers, and many companies are marketing their products directly to them.
In fact, even my youngest who is only 5 is already on board the digital media bandwagon. He is officially out of diapers, in all-day school, and ready to take on the world—via my iPhone. I found him the other day sitting in our family room with my cell phone, nonchalantly downloading games from Yahoo.
Thanks to advances in technology, children today are growing up faster than ever before, and in many cases, they know more than their parents ever will about this digital age. So while I am certainly enjoying this period in my life, if this truly is the sweet spot, I have a feeling it will not be lasting long.
