National Parents as Teachers Day: (excerpted from http://www.parentsasteachers.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ekIRLcMZJxE&b=3526425&ct=4604281) National Parents as Teachers Day was established in 2001 as a day to pay tribute to the thousands of trained and certified parent educators giving support to parents in the critical early years of their child’s development. Celeberated each year on Nov. 8, more than 3,000 Parents [...]

Halloween: (excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween) It has roots in the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints. It is largely a secular celebration, but some have expressed strong feelings about perceived religious overtones. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America during Ireland’s Great Famine of the 1840s. [...]