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Friday, January 13th, 2012A recent Education Week blog post describes an emerging trend that uses the talents and interests of their students’ parents. The post acknowledges that today’s college students are the children of parents who have been continuously focused and involved in every aspect of their children’s lives and educations; they have used all of their resources [...]
Good Television for Girls
Friday, October 14th, 2011Part of the negative fallout from television programs has been the rash of programming that depicts girls as competitive, mean, and bullying others. A recent post on the Common Sense Media site laments this relentless trend and acknowledges that parents may find it somewhat difficult to steer their daughters toward positive viewing. In the post [...]
Parents Who Ruin Their Children’s Sports
Friday, October 7th, 2011Encouraging your child to participate in physical activities has many benefits, including better health, improved self-concept, more efficient brain functioning, etc. It’s seems like a win-win, but a recent study suggests that parents need to limit their enthusiasm in this area. According to The United Press International website article “Overzealous Parents Can Ruin Kids’ Sports,” [...]
Signs Your Child Might Be Bullied
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011October is Bullying Prevention Awareness Month, so we found the suggestions and reminders about this pervasive practice that is too common among all schools and across several generations. The article “Bullying and Teasing: No Laughing Matter” on the Scholastic Parents website reminds parents about this practice, but, in light of the recent high profile, bullying-induced [...]
Adjusting Parent Attitudes Motivates Their Children to Do Homework
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011A recent study reported on the Science Daily website concludes that if parents want to improve their children’s motivation to complete their homework, the parents “need to change their own attitude and behavior.” Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev concluded that if parents convey “a more positive, supportive attitude and communicated the learning value [...]
Is Self Regulation the Key to Academic Success?
Friday, August 19th, 2011Parents and teachers of young children might be able to improve those children’s chances for academic success by teaching self-regulation skills to them. That is what new research suggests. The study’s researchers, Claire Cameron Ponitz from the University of Virginia and Megan McClelland from Oregon State University, found that kindergarteners with high levels of self-regulation [...]
Your Child Should Be Reading This Summer
Friday, July 29th, 2011It’s almost back-to-school time for some families, but it is the middle of the summer break for others. Most students want a true break from anything that resembles academic learning. They just want to have endless days and weeks of relaxing and doing fun things only, and for their beleaguered parents, it’s a break from [...]
Why You Should Emphasize Science with Your Kids
Thursday, July 21st, 2011A recent post on the Huffington Post’s education blog provides another reason to encourage your child’s proficiency in science, one of the diminishing STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects. It seems that an adequate pool of workers science and engineering workers is needed in the workforce, and those workers currently represent only a small [...]
An Inexpensive Way to Improve Your Child’s Vocabulary
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011A parent asked me recently what she could purchase to help her child to improve her vocabulary. I told her that one of the easiest things that she could do is to implement a required reading time at least six days a week. I did this with my son, and we both read for at [...]
Easy Help for Better Brain Functioning
Saturday, July 16th, 2011Helping your children perform better in school might be as simple as providing higher levels of folic acid in their diets! A team of scientific investigators led by Dr. Torbjorn K. Nilsson of the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Orebro University Hospital in Sweden collected data on the folic acid levels in 386 15-year-olds. After [...]
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