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Parent Involvement

By PAA Co-founder Pamela Grundy

I wrote this post for the Mom Congress Back-to-School Blog-a-thon (I was the North Carolina delegate to the 2011 Mom Congress, sponsored by Parenting Magazine). You can read more Mom Congress blogs here, and more of my “Seen from the ‘Rock” blogshere.

As the letter notes, my husband Peter, 10-year-old son Parker and I will be spending the fall in Shanghai. Peter will be a visiting professor of architecture at Tongji University, and Parker and I will be learning and exploring. It should be quite an adventure.

Dear Parker,

Only three more days before we head for Shanghai. Four months to explore one of the world’s great cities! I’ve already got a long list of places to visit together: museums,