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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

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

Parents searching for some positive ideas to help their child make and keep friends will find these helpful strategies easy to use and implement. Parents searching for more ideas should go to Ask a Counselor for additional help and assistance with “advanced Strategy” ideas.

Build Social Skills - Encourage Participation in Extra-Curricular Activities

Encourage your child to participate in plays, drama, band clubs, sports, community education programs, YMCA, summer camps, science clubs and more! During the school year, tell your child that you want them to get involved with “one activity at school” and “one activity out of school.” many churches offer programs that are excellent in encouraging appropriate social interaction and friend- making… Continue Reading

Having a gifted child is something special.  It’s take special time, knowledge, foresight, patience and a willingness to explore new options.  This article by author Susan Johnsen touches on the topics and titles that the parents of gifted children seem to ask the most question about their gifted child.  Johnsen’s article also shares real-life experience that gifted children are challenged with each day.

Definitions, Models, and Characteristics of Gifted Student
by Susan K. Johnsen

Andrea is a kindergarten child, full of energy and excitement like most children her age, except that she is already reading at a fourth-grade level and understands mathematics concepts at a fifth-grade level. She likes to play games with the other children in her classroom, but she is interested… Continue Reading

Learning can be fun, creative and fascinating! Parents and teachers will benefit from author and friend Vanessa Van Petten’s article. Parents are included in this article because you are and will become your child’s best teacher. You will not only have the opportunity to team with professional experts that directly work with your child in schools, but you will have the opportunity to become educated on teaching techniques and strategies shared in this article. Keep an open mind. As always, when your child is using a computer in your home, keep a watchful eye to ensure your child’s safety and appropriate use of the Internet. Have fun while you learn!

7 Ways Teachers & Parents Can Use Online Tools To Keep Students… Continue Reading

Teaching reading is essential for our youth not only to live, but survive in a world that is becoming more open to cultural and diverse forms of communication. Coaching parents to become productive teachers in their home is a growing, successful trend. Parents want to help their young child learn how to read, but few are aware of the appropriate concepts, strategies and techniques involved. Author Dr. Caron Goode’s article provides parents with some starting points to encourage young child to begin reading.

Coaching Parents to Encourage Young Readers

There are four steps children take to becoming readers. In the first step, they are known as pre-readers. Pre-readers like to look at books and behave like a reader. In this stage… Continue Reading

“Gifted and talented children are those identified by professionally qualified persons who by virtue of outstanding abilities are capable of high performance. These are children who require differentiated educational programs and/or services beyond those normally provided by the regular school program in order to realize their contribution to self and society”

Former U. S. Commissioner of Education Sidney P. Marland, Jr.

What Does Giftedness Mean?

Many parents say, “I know what giftedness is, but I can’t put it into words.” This generally is followed by reference to a particular child who seems to manifest gifted behaviors. Unfortunately, there are many misconceptions of the term, all of which become deterrents to understanding and catering to the needs of children identified as gifted. Let’s study the following… Continue Reading