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Helping Your Child Have Healthy Friendships

Navigating childhood friendships can be tough for parents, especially when your child is dealing with a "frenemy." This kind of friendship can be confusing and hurtful, leaving parents unsure how to best support their child. In this blog post, Catherine Mallam, Shipley's Lower School Director of...

Lower School Parenting social emotional learning

Teasing, Bullying, and Conflict: What’s the Difference?

The third grader was pensive as he described interactions with a classmate. “My mom is really upset because she thinks I’m being bullied,” he told me, “but I think I’m being teased.” Turns out, he was right! The words teasing, bullying, and conflict are often used interchangeably, but they describe...

Back to School Parenting Well-being

Supporting your Child’s Well-Being During Back to School Season

For many of us, the beginning of this school year has marked a return to routines and structures that we have been missing since March of 2020. Mixed in with the excitement of getting our students back onto school buses and soccer fields is worry: worry about how the pandemic has impacted our...

Parenting DEI Well-being

Fostering Body Positivity in Our Kids: When It Comes to Health, One Size Does Not Fit All

On Wednesday, May 5th, Shipley’s Lower School hosted a virtual lunchtime Parent Education Series Talk entitled “Providing a Stable Foundation for Body Acceptance.” The Lower School welcomed two experts from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to lead the discussion: Dr. Eleanor (Ellie)...

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The Kids Are Alright! How Building Resilience Can Help Us Thrive During the COVID-19 Era

For most of my career, my mantra regarding avoidance of difficulty has been, “Don’t let children believe ‘The world is dangerous,’ or ‘I can’t handle it.’ One of the problems with the COVID-19 crisis is that some activities that were previously considered normal and non-threatening (e.g. shaking...

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Resources to Help You Celebrate Juneteenth

June 19 marks a critically important day in our country’s history: Juneteenth, celebrating the end of enslavement in the U.S. and dating back to 1865 at the end of the Civil War. Members of The Shipley School’s History Department wanted to share a bit about the importance of this day, the origins...

Community Parenting

Resources to Help You Talk to Kids about Race & Racism

Shipley’s Mission commits us to helping students develop the empathy and critical thinking it takes to be compassionately engaged global citizens. That work begins in our own community, and in times like these, it’s our duty to provide children with opportunities to feel heard, to listen to others,...

Parenting positive education

Things I Learned about Listening, and How it Helped me Parent Better

Most parents have heard the following at some point from their child: “You just don’t understand!” It is probably true. Children today deal with such different challenges than their parents ever did, from sports commitments and social media pressures, to the college admissions process. It is a...

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