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Sheryl Bone is a full time, online professor in the Department of Student Success at Kaplan University. An active member of professional organizations, she makes presentations on a variety of topics related to education. Sheryl serves as a regional leader for the College Reading and Learning Association. She is a full time mother to three children, ages 14, 12 and 10 and one little dog, as well as a full time wife to a busy, supportive husband. Always driving someone somewhere, she is sometimes frazzled, usually tired, but generally a very happy woman. Follow Sheryl Bone on twitter at http://twitter.com/MomandProfessor

 

My copy of Working Mom Survival Guide arrived in yesterday's mail.  The subtitle drew me in immediately.  Who doesn't want to know how to run around less and enjoy life more ? I flipped through the book a little bit last night while helping  my daught ... Read more...
What is it about kids in costumes ?  They are so crazy cute !  I nearly lost my mind in the third grade Halloween "dance party room" this morning.  Nothing getting done in my classrooms or on my desk this morning, but wow, did we have fun partying it ... Read more...
Halloween is a "holiday" meant for kids, right ?  I ask this, because for many years Halloween was a full blown job for mom.  It wasn't fun, it was a chore.  I over committed, over extended, over volunteered, over entertained and under enjoyed.  ... Read more...
My dental hygentist lost her mother to cancer in August. Her mother happened to be a first grade teacher at the school my kids attend.  I knew her mom and liked her.  As I sat in the chair having my teeth cleaned, my twenty four year old hygenist was telli ... Read more...
As I type this I am sitting in an informational meeting for People To People with my thirteen year old son, Max.  This past summer, as you are likely aware if you read this blog, Max traveled to Western Europe and the British Isles for nineteen d ... Read more...
Several weeks ago my husband grudgingly agreed to coach my nine year old's school flag football team. After several practices, the Packers had their first game last Saturday. I wasn't sure what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting the scene of familial cooperatio ... Read more...
My mother in law lost one of her best friends last week.  On Friday I met my husband for her funeral mass.  The mass was given in the church where our kids were christened, by the priest who christened them. The priest who traveled to Chicag ... Read more...
As the final days of summer unfold, it feels less like "vacation" and more like time to get back into a routine every day.  I don't know about your household, but here, we have been in sports practices for several weeks.  I attended my first PTG meeting of ... Read more...
Today I have not one, but four girls.  My three nieces are spending the afternoon and the night.  My daughter is stuck in the middle of two brothers who make her crazy on a regular basis.  When her three chick cousins, one older and two younger, come ... Read more...
Last weekend, my husband and I traveled to Chicago so I could attend Kaplan University’s summer commencement. I'm always happy to have an excuse to travel to Chicago. My husband and I were married there, our oldest son was born there, and my teaching career began th ... Read more...