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ScottCounseling.com was created to serve you and provide solutions for your everyday problems.  ScottCounseling has trained, licensed, professional counselors available to assist you with options that will successfully bring about a solution for your counseling need.  ScottCounseling has help hundreds of individuals with questions about:

Children and Teens  Anxiety  Marriage  Depression  ADD/ADHD  Academic and Schools

College Planning  Mental Health  Gifted… Continue Reading

The Parent Teacher Association (PTA) has published 100 Ways To Help Your Child and School Succeed. One can not succeed without the other. ScottCounseling recognizes the PTA as a valuable asset for parents, teachers and, of course, students.

100 Ways To Help Your Child and School Succeed

According to the PTA, there are many ways to be involved with your child’s education. You’re probably doing some of these things already. Maybe it’s calling the teacher to say “thank you” or to ask a question, or attending a parent or school board meeting.You’ll soon see the effects of your efforts—that’s because when parents get involved in their children’s education, everyone benefits.

Communicating

1. Give positive feedback and show appreciation… Continue Reading

Attending a new school after a move can be stressful.  Here are some helpful tips to help your child relax, plan ahead and become comfortable with his or her new school

1. Practice the route that the school bus or you will take from your house, by driving there together. Kids feel very reassured seeing the exact trip ahead of time. Do a little homework and talk about the different landmarks along the way. This helps a child know what the other kids already know, the basic geography of the area. Keep in mind that children pay attention to many of the things we adults take for granted — a shopping center with a nice toy store, a cool-colored billboard, a… Continue Reading

Parents searching for fun learning activities for their children to participate in while school is out for the summer (or the weekends) will find this article to be helpful. Get the whole family involved! Have your child invite his or her friends over to participate in some real “fun learning” activities. Call a neighbor friend and invite the friend and children over and team together to make the activity even more fun!

Fun Learning

Visit the museum.

Most locations have a museum or other low-admission attraction that would make a nice day-trip. Not only is it something you don’t do every day, but it’s fun and educational, too.
Community Service

The local retirement home and hospital often like when children… Continue Reading

How To Thank A Special Teacher

The school year is coming to an end. You child’s teacher spent many extra hours putting together lesson plans, correcting papers and thinking of new innovative and creative ways to teach your child. Now, you want to thank that special teacher(s). Below are some simple,but yet meaningful ways for you and your child to say “thanks!”

You not over gift! Teachers are amazingly grateful just when you approach them to say, “thanks for being there for my child.”

Depending on your child’s age, encourage or help your child write a poem. Or, you may choose to send the poem written… Continue Reading

Great School Don’t Just Happen

It doesn’t matter which school official you talk to in the surrounding school districts, every school in the area has its strengths and weaknesses. For some athletics is the leading force, for others it is academics and the arts that students and parents take extreme pride in.  Many schools are overcrowded making it difficult for teachers to teach.  So, what make a great school great?  This article shares some points of interest to consider when one attempts to make this decision about a school.

Teachers and Staff

Schools that have have a professional staff, passionate ready to meet the challenge of educating today’s young people make a school great. When teachers go beyond the… Continue Reading

For too long parents and teachers have been unintentionally allowing students to fail. Many in education have even accepted “failure as a right” and “a part of learning.” This philosophy and line of thinking is obviously flawed. Failure should not be an option and students should not be allowed an “easy out” of completing an assignment.

Home and School Study Hall Program

The following teaching strategy can be used at home and at school. When a student has not finished or completed an assignment that was due that day the following study plan should be implemented.

Home Study Plan (HSP)

1. Parent receives an email from the teacher sharing that an assignment failed to be turned in… Continue Reading