School is starting

It’s Labor Day today here in the USA. A new school year begins in a matter of days (for most).
Here are some tips for getting your young children ready:

Be Positive. Remember to use positive language and tonality when talking about your youngster going to school.
Take a tour of the school if possible. Your child may [...]

Raising Decision Makers

Parenting isn’t easy. We don’t get a manual. It’s the ultimate in “on-the-job-training.”
Here’s a little something for you to think about. One of our primary objectives is to raise children who become fully functioning and competent adults. Decision making is important in this objective. Therefore, we must think about allowing our children to make decisions [...]

Parenting: Accountability

As I’ve said previously, parenting isn’t necessarily easy. We often don’t know what to do or say. Simply doing what our parents did isn’t the best course of action. However, it’s often the only option.
As a rule, we let our kids off the hook too easily and too often. We fail to hold them Accountable [...]

Bullying: Name Calling

Remember the old rhyme from childhood: “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me?” Bunk!
Names do hurt. That inspirational rhyme is flat out wrong. Loving parents and dutiful school folk told us this in an attempt to help us cope with and ignore name calling from fellow students. It didn’t [...]

Bullying May Effect Girls More Than Boys?

When we think of Bullying don’t we usually tend to think of it happening at the hand of and to boys? Well I do. Of course, I admit that I’m skewed due to having been a boy, not a girl.
In a 2009 article in “Medscape Medical News,” author Janis Kelly indicated that Bullying may have [...]

When Communicating With Your Kids: Tonality is Key

In verbal communication, three areas are considered: the words, body language and tonality. Much to the surprise of most, tonality is the most significant and effective of the three. Watch the brief clip below for more.

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Homework Tips: Review today’s notes today; Self-monitor homework

This brief video suggests two simple ways that students can get better results. Watch the video and leave a comment letting me know what you think.

Remember to leave a comment. Feel free to send me your success stories.
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