Glen Rock Parent

Glen Rock, NJ's forum for parents to speak out, react, inform and engage

Keep your child at home

And so the cold and flu season is upon us. It’s a tough time of year for parents as we attempt to go about our lives – whether we’re employed full-time, part-time or a full-time parent – and attempt to keep our child on their routine. The petri dishes our children dip in and out [...]

Giving thanks!

It’s a short week. Lots of food, fun and family happening this week. Happy Thanksgiving from GlenRockParent.com folks. If you can make it, attend your children’s holiday plays and events. They do love it. There will likely be a lull in activity during this week but we will return to our regularly scheduled programming next [...]

There’s a lot of room for improvement

In most of the communications sent from the Glen Rock school system, they always reference “the web site.” If you need further information, it’s online and available at all times. That’s pretty sweet. Except it’s not. The web site is attrocious. Have you tried finding something on there lately?
The design is dated but, more importantly, [...]

Come to school….but leave the kids at home

While the Glen Rock school system certainly plans plenty of interesting and enriching activities for our kids that include our participation you have to, at times, question the planning and rationale that go into some of these events. Specifically, at issue is the restriction on bringing younger siblings to any of these events. Many of [...]