Parents: Start the School Year Off on the Right Foot
The start of the school year may be stressful for kids...but making sure that your child is prepared with the right supplies, outfits, vaccines is a major task for you as well. We've got the tips to make the back to school season less painful for you.
4 Reasons to Skip Your Child's School Events
Few working parents have enough vacation or personal time to attend all the parent-teacher conferences, music and dance performances, athletic events, Mother’s and Father’s Day parties, award ceremonies, and field trip. Here’s an idea: don’t even try.
Few working parents have enough vacation or personal time to attend all the parent-teacher conferences, music and dance performances, athletic events, Mother’s and Father’s Day parties, award ceremonies, and field trip. Here’s an idea: don’t even try.
Back to School in 5 Trouble-free Steps
Every school year teens faces big changes when they go back to school. Harder classes, and upcoming college applications, can cause teens stress. Find out how you can help your teen.
Every school year teens faces big changes when they go back to school. Harder classes, and upcoming college applications, can cause teens stress. Find out how you can help your teen.
Tips for Getting Kids Up and Starting the Day
Getting kids up and ready for the day is a sure-fire stress builder and typical cause of morning madness. What can parents do to start each day in a positive fashion?
Getting kids up and ready for the day is a sure-fire stress builder and typical cause of morning madness. What can parents do to start each day in a positive fashion?
Choose the Right After-School Program
Now that your child has started school, choosing a quality after-school care program can have a tremendous impact on academics, self-esteem and overall happiness and adjustment. So, what type of program is best for your kid?
Now that your child has started school, choosing a quality after-school care program can have a tremendous impact on academics, self-esteem and overall happiness and adjustment. So, what type of program is best for your kid?
Help Beat Back-to-School Blues
Meeting a new teacher, fears of the unknown, anxiety about separation from home and family, and concerns about making friends can make a youngster feel stress and pressure when returning to school or even to daycare. Parents can help kids to beat any back-to-school stresses by listening to their kids and scheduling special family time before the school-year returns.
Meeting a new teacher, fears of the unknown, anxiety about separation from home and family, and concerns about making friends can make a youngster feel stress and pressure when returning to school or even to daycare. Parents can help kids to beat any back-to-school stresses by listening to their kids and scheduling special family time before the school-year returns.
8 People You Should Know at Your Child's School
In addition to making sure your kids are well-fed in the mornings and dressed appropriately for the school day, parents should also be sure they do extra homework on the side to get to know all the "important people" at school or child care. Here's who should be on your "must know" list.
In addition to making sure your kids are well-fed in the mornings and dressed appropriately for the school day, parents should also be sure they do extra homework on the side to get to know all the "important people" at school or child care. Here's who should be on your "must know" list.
Connect With Kids By Volunteering at School
Schools, daycares, and youth organizations all desperately plead for parent involvement to help enhance academics, activities, enrichment, and quality of care. Parents are a kid's first and most important teacher, and parent involvement is closely linked to a academic achievement and self-confidence.
Schools, daycares, and youth organizations all desperately plead for parent involvement to help enhance academics, activities, enrichment, and quality of care. Parents are a kid's first and most important teacher, and parent involvement is closely linked to a academic achievement and self-confidence.
Starting School: Surviving & Thriving Takes Planning
Starting school--whether it is pre-school, daycare, or public/private education--means an adjustment for everyone in the family. Here are six strategies for starting school on the right foot and making it a memorable and positive experience.
Starting school--whether it is pre-school, daycare, or public/private education--means an adjustment for everyone in the family. Here are six strategies for starting school on the right foot and making it a memorable and positive experience.
Tips: Get Your Teen to Do Their Homework
Find the place in your home that your teen is comfortable to do his work. Have the tools they need to get the work done.
Find the place in your home that your teen is comfortable to do his work. Have the tools they need to get the work done.
Encourage Your High School Student to Do Their Best
Encouraging your high school student to do their best isn’t as hard as you may think. It does take time and effort, but it should become part of a daily routine that both you and your teen can enjoy more than dread.
Encouraging your high school student to do their best isn’t as hard as you may think. It does take time and effort, but it should become part of a daily routine that both you and your teen can enjoy more than dread.
Help Your Kids With Back to School Fears
Most children experience some nervousness at the beginning of a new school year. New teachers, new classes and a whole new routine can leave even the most even-tempered child frazzled and exhausted in the first few weeks.
Most children experience some nervousness at the beginning of a new school year. New teachers, new classes and a whole new routine can leave even the most even-tempered child frazzled and exhausted in the first few weeks.
How To Set up a Mobile Homework Center
Homework for middle and high school is very different from elementary school. It's a good idea to have a mobile homework center that can be set up in your teen's bedroom one night and at the family room desk or kitchen table the next.
Homework for middle and high school is very different from elementary school. It's a good idea to have a mobile homework center that can be set up in your teen's bedroom one night and at the family room desk or kitchen table the next.