Family
How Your Children’s Inner Dialogue Affects Their Ability To Learn
Kids are born winners. They feel they can do it all. In kindergarten, everyone raises their hand, everyone tries a new activity, and everyone wants to try again when they can’t do something the first time.
Yet, as time goes by, they begin to lose [read more...]
Five Ways You Can Help Your Child Succeed in School
It’s unfortunate that school holds such a revered place in society. I don’t say that because I feel education is unnecessary. On the contrary, I’m a teacher (15 years) and I believe in the power of education to transform lives and benefit soc [read more...]
Three Truths About Test Taking Your Child Needs To Know
When students review with a teacher or sit through a class the day before the test, they treat it like any other day.
For the kids that fool around, they’ll do that. For the kids that space out, they’ll do that. And for the kids that pay att [read more...]
A Thanksgiving Dinner Even Your Mother-in-Law Can Enjoy
Face it — families are a blessing and a curse. While we love the people who have raised us and who have been by our side through thick and think, chances are good that we don’t always like them. At no other time of year is this apparent than duri [read more...]
7 Ways to Reduce Stress During Exam Time
January is prime season for taking exams. The first half of the year is over and it’s time to show all you’ve learned until now.
The only problem is students get incredibly stressed and anxious when it’s time to remember the mounds of [read more...]
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...]
