After volunteering at her son’s elementary school, which holds a worldwide mindfulness minute each morning, Ms. Chrest realized how powerful mindfulness can be. “Mindfulness is perhaps the greatest gift I can give my students--the greatest lesson from my journey,” Chrest said. “Being mindful is simply watching what is going on in the present moment--being the observer of your breath,...

The Paw Print has a new opportunity called "13 for Thursday" for students to answer fun questions to get to know each other as the virtual school year is progressing. Our goal is to get students from different grades and class levels to participate in order to create more unity in a time of division. This first week of "13 for Thursday" we will be featuring Sonia Sebadduka, a junior at Wilde Lake. Sebadduka...

  A birthday celebrates a milestone in making it to another year, and acknowledges how special and valued an individual is. Wilde Lake junior, Logan Bitner-Parish, celebrated her sister’s birthday during quarantine. “Birthdays are important because being born and being alive are special things,” says Bitner-Parish. “It’s important to make people feel loved.” Atholton senior, Cameron...