The Parenting Patch: Where Parents Grow

If you are squeamish about the mere thought of a woman eating her placenta, I advise you to stop reading now....

If I had to pick a single grammar topic to focus on for the rest of my life, I would likely...

Writing is not sounds written down. The primary function of English spelling is to represent meaning. Sounds do matter, but not...

Meatloaf is an inexpensive and filling meal. My family literally devoured my most recent recipe. (There were no leftovers, and I...

Earlier today I came across a tweet that argued against the use of the word back in the phrase some years...

Yesterday I introduced my 5-year-old to the words <talk> and <walk>. He knows that graphemes can spell sounds, specifically that <l>...

Yesterday I posted on my social media about the spelling of the word <broad>. I just introduced the <oa> grapheme to...

I always misspell the word <relevant> as <*relavant> based on a thinking that <relevant> is related to <relative>. I recently decided...

<*tion> is not an English suffix. I repeat: <*tion> is not an English suffix. I previously wrote a post entitled The...

I grew up in the 1990s. I entered kindergarten in 1990 and began learning to read that year. Phonics and sight...