by kristi | Feb 5, 2018 | Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events, Parent Education
By Kim Servia, M.A.Ed., DCSD GT Facilitator, and Parent Our son’s underachievement surprised us. Maybe it shouldn’t have, but it did. Through study and reflection, I understand more about how parenting, school, and mindset unintentionally contribute to the perfect...
by kristi | May 19, 2017 | Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events, Parent Education
By Kristi Holmes Espineira, Mackintosh Littleton Director of Advancement You can’t tell from today’s surprise spring snowstorm, but summer is just around the corner! Mack students will soon go home with their summer reading lists, and solo reading is an...
by kristi | Dec 15, 2016 | Core Values, Growing Learners, International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds, News & Events, Our Students, Parent Education
by Alice Shi Kembel (proud mother of three boys currently attending Mackintosh Academy’s Boulder Campus) Our house is filled with trash. Not because I’m a terrible housekeeper, not because my husband shirks his weekly duty of taking out the trash, but because...
by Darsa Morrow | Jan 31, 2015 | Community, Littleton, News & Events, Our Students, Parent Education
“Hi! I hear you also don’t let your son play first-person shooter video games! How can we support each other?” That was my first introduction to a fellow Mack mom whose son is in my oldest son’s class. And if you picked up on the slightly desperate subtext in that...
by Gia Medeiros | Dec 12, 2014 | Parent Education
By Darsa Morrow, Teacher and Mother of 3 Gifted Children Stepping on Legos with bare feet is a common parental gripe to be sure, and after my latest sole-piercing experience I vowed that this year I would not depend on Lego sets as go-to presents for my three boys....