As an educator and owner of a small business, I try very hard to separate my personal opinions about some subjects from my everyday life....

Springbok mom, Mandy Rausch, gives us her own views and opinions on the fine art of leaving your new baby while mom goes to work. She...

Mimi sends loves and kisses to all the dads out there. My husband owns a coffee mug that has a picture of a “daddy” critter resting...

Mimi celebrates the Fourth of July like a Yankee Doodle Dandy. If you happened to be an alien visiting this country from your spaceship,...

Mimi begs your indulgence while she sends a few words of wisdom to the newest member of her extended family. Miss Penelope arrived around...

While most of the colleges have graduated their 2014 students, and are deep into that modern misery called “Maymester,” high schools and...

Mimi writes again. This time she takes on the highly emotional subject of Mother’s Day—with no reverence at all! About three week ago, I...

This space has been remarkable by its silence for quite awhile. This is mostly due to the fact that your friendly scribe has very little...

This post is by our resident Mimi, Betty Kay Seibt, who has the distinction of being a mother to three and a grandmother to four (mostly)...

This post comes to us courtesy of Sarah Bynane, Sprinkbok parent and Elementary School Librarian. She calls it “rambling” but we call it...

This next post, written by Cassie Henderson, explores the benefits of fostering independence in preschool aged children. As an early...

Betty Kay Seibt, our resident Mimi is the proud parent of three children who have walked across stages at graduation and the proud...

As my college students used to say, “Back in the olden days—you know, like when you were a kid. . . .” Well, back then there was no such...

After Ms. Natalie’s blog on hidden foods, we had comments, plus it got me thinking about how attitudes toward food have shifted since I...

This post will explain the difference between process-based art and product-and why process-based art experiences are so important for...

Recently, we at Springbok hosted a parent seminar on the topic of early childhood literacy. One of our parents, who is a public school...

This week’s blogger is Betty Kay Seibt, PhD. At Springbok she is better known as just mom and “Mimi.” In a long lifetime, she’s seen...

Our blogger today is Natalie Thomas, Queen of the Springbok Kitchen. She not only cooks good food for our children, she cooks sneaky...

This post is about Dramatic Play—one of the ways children can share with adults how they feel about what’s going on in their world. Our...

Welcome to Springbok’s Learning Spot. Springbok Academy is a pre-school and kindergarten located in Denton, Texas, where we have been a...