While schools are prepping for the 2019-2020 school year, parents need to think about the bullies that previously terrorized their children. What can we do about those annoying bullies? The first anti-bullying crusade was launched after the April 20, 1999 Columbine massacre when two seniors at Columbine High School in Colorado murdered 12 students and…
March is National Reading Month and it’s up to moms and dads to instill a love of reading in their children. To encourage them to improve their reading skills and develop a fondness for books it’s strongly suggested you set some time aside a few times a week for family reading time. This means…
Audiologists acknowledge four levels of deafness—mild, moderate, severe, and profound. Author Cece Bell is severely to profoundly deaf. At the age of four she contracted meningitis, robbing her of most of her hearing. When she started public school, Cece was mainstreamed into a regular classroom. She knew she was different from the other kids due…
According to the Washington Post, President Trump has told more than five thousand false or misleading statements since taking office in January 2017. What message does that send our children and what can we do about it? The message isn’t a positive one. The president is sending an example too many children will emulate.So what…
You are your child’s first teacher. As a parent, you need to embrace this idea and not wait for some stranger with a master’s degree in education do the job for you. Develop your child’s cognitive skills at an early age. Cognitive skills, the ability our brains use to think, read, learn, remember, reason, and…
If you have a child in middle school or high school taking Algebra and you feel frustrated, you’re not alone. In a 2011 survey released by Sylvan Learning, a private for profit educational firm, 71% of parents questioned would prefer teaching their children to drive a car than tutor them in Algebra. A child’s problem…
As the 2018-2019 school year begins, we want our children to perform at their peak performance. Parents can help by providing the environment children need to be top notch students. The best thing parents can do is to provide daily rituals designed for peak school performance. First, establish parameters. Kids work best with daily rituals…