Now that school is back in session, our focus has shifted from bridging the summer learning gap to helping our kids complete their school assignments with success.
However, this year has been more difficult than most. Our 8-year-old son is struggling with math. His “I suck at math” attitude has made homework an unpleasant experience for everyone in our family.
10 Tips to Help Your Kids Establish a Successful Homework Routine
Here are 10 things that have made all …
Encouragement: Dream Big and Make Your Dreams Come TrueWhat is your biggest dream? Aside from raising happy healthy kids, what is it you aspire to do? My kids are accustomed to hearing me say, “Anything is possible!” Because it’s true. You can be anything you want to be and do anything you want to do in this great…
Confidence: Spiderman Backpacks Increase Teen’s Self EsteemBefore the first day of school each year, I give my four children the chance to go through a bin of recycled backpacks. My daughter, a ninth grader, informed me that she didn’t need one. She had taken the initiative to buy her own and this backpack proudly displayed Spiderman…
Life Lessons: A Story About Bullying…When I was a kid, bullying was frowned upon but that’s about it. If something happened at school a common response would be for the teacher to simply say, “Well, he’s a bully.” Apparently, a child couldn’t help if he was a bully any more than he could help being
Possibilities: 5 Ways Mom Can Overcome Back-to-School BluesI’ve been seeing a lot of tweets and hearing a lot of chatter among my mom friends about their kids entering pre-school, going into kindergarten, or their youngest progressing to all-day school. Back-to-school time can be a bitter sweet mixture of tears and smiles for all involved.
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Back-To-School: A Prep Conversation With Your Kids…As summer comes to a close and students look forward to fall, there are lots of back to school must haves: new clothes, school supplies and the latest tech gadgets. However, it can be easy for parents to also get wrapped up in the back to school whirlwind and forget
Five Reasons to Say “Yes” to Volunteering at Your Child’s Schoolmy world • bettering communities
…Have you received your checklist yet? You know, the double-sided piece of paper from your child’s school PTA, offering 101 volunteer opportunities over the next nine months? I approach that official document with a mixture of altruistic willingness to help where I am needed, eager desire to be a “fly
‘Twas the Night Before Kindergarten Part I: Helping Your Child Know What to Expect This School YearMy daughters like to talk. Call it a girl thing, say it’s because I chattered endlessly to them when they were babies, or maybe they just have a lot to say. It’s when they are not talking, that I know something is up. The summer before my oldest daughter began…
How Parental & Teacher Involvement & Partnership Benefits a Child’s Education…Studies show that children do better when their parents are actively involved in their education. In what ways do you contribute to your child’s education? What benefits do you see as a result? How can you support and participate in your child’s school and education to ensure greater success?
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How OfficeMax Is Helping Erase Teacher-Funded Classrooms“A Day Made Better” is a national cause founded by OfficeMax and nonprofit organization, Adopt-A-Classroom…, to lead the fight to end teacher-funded classrooms. Annually in October, more than 3,500 OfficeMax associates surprise and honor more than 1,000 teachers at 1,000 schools across the
