Parenting
Knowing Essential Parenting Skills
Attachment parenting means kids are breastfed until they choose to stop - four, five, six years of age. Let us be honest, all of us wants to be the best parents for our child and who wouldn’t. There are many different aspects of parenting that qualify as [read more...]
Educational Toys for Your Three Year Old Baby Boy and Baby Girl
What is the best gift you can give to your three-year-old son and or daughter? Should you give them a box of crayons and a coloring book? Or should you buy them a stuffed animal? They say that babies reach the age of discovery when they turn three. So it is i [read more...]
What To Look For When Getting A Barbie Dollhouse
Everyone needs a home even if this is just for the doll. This is a better place to put the toy after playing with it so this can easily be picked up when the little girl wants to get it again.
Two of the major dolls fighting for the hearts of little gir [read more...]
3 Reasons Why Your Child Needs Strong Memory Skills
For some kids it causes frustration. For others it causes despair. And for others it is plain hopeless.
What ever the circumstances, there is one important thing to know about memorizing. Your child needs to be good at it if they want to succeed in scho [read more...]
Help Your Child Learn And Finish Your To-Do List
By now you’ve heard we are a country in an educational crisis. One report in Time Magazine (April, 2006) says that one in four students will drop out before graduating high school. In Reader’s Digest (September, 2006) it’s reported that only [read more...]
Memorization vs. Critical Thinking. Who wins?
Recently, my son (in fifth grade) needed to discuss the events that lead to the American Revolution. He sat at home and went over all the major points:
- The Stamp Act of 1765
- Taxation without representation.
- The Boston Massacre of 1770 [read more...]
3 Ways to Improve Your Child’s Memory Through Visualization
Our brains love pictures. That’s why we remember movies more easily than books. But even with books, as we recall passages, we can see the action pass before our eyes.
The process of calling up images is called visualization and it’s a wonde [read more...]
Why Johnny Can’t Memorize
As a teacher, I stopped saying, “Come on, try harder” to students a while back. Not because I thought they
were actually trying their hardest at the time (many don’t to this day), but because I learned that it isn’t always possibl [read more...]
Why ADD Kids Have An Advantage When It Comes To Memorizing
When I sit down and think of ways to make connections between two things, I’m flooded with ideas. In fact, I don’t even have to think of them. They just come.
Maybe it’s a sound or something I see that suddenly takes my mind somewhere. [read more...]
3 Tips to Help Your Child Improve Their Memory at Study Time
When I was younger, I hated going upstairs to study for tests. Actually, it wasn’t the upstairs that bothered me, it was the studying for the tests that was the problem.
I knew I would be faced with the same problem I had had countless times befor [read more...]
