Life Skills Communication, manners, social and moral skills are all important life skills that children needs to learn and practice. ScottCounseling.com offers numers life skills article for parents to help their child learn how to be responsible young individuals while they are progressing with academic lessons in school.
Millennium Children: Adult Children Living at Home
Report: 78 percent of angry teens too lazy to run away from home. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame announced Monday results of at three-year study which suggest that an overwhelming majority of today’s teenagers who are emphatically frustrated with their home life are simply too lazy to go through the process of...
Children Who Volunteer and Serve Become Better Citizens: Johnny the Bagger
It’s important for parents, educators, youth leaders and others who teach children, to help them to become service oriented. ScottCounseling promotes “Johnny The Bagger” as a method to improve child service and volunteerism in America. “Johnny the Bagger”
Stop My Children From Fighting
Author and Parenting Life Coach, Barbara Desmarais, shares her insights and thoughtful remedies for sibling rivalries. Children who learn early in life to respect other family members often grow up to respect others outside of the family as well. Children are no different than us adult, we all do things for a reason. Helping our children...
Get Organized! Helping Your Student Become Successful in School
“How children organize the many demands of their busy livesis critical to their success at school as well as to their personal sense of control and accomplishment.” NYC Child Study Center Many schools encourage their student to use an academic planner or “agenda” to help hem get and stay organized. Most 5th grade students on up...
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Helping Your Child Find A Summer Job: Should Your Teen Get A Job?
Only one in three teenagers, 16-to-19-years-old, will find a job this summer. This is a sure a sign of slow economic growth and higher minimum wage for all workers in the US. In fact, the employment rate this season is expected to be the lowest in sixty years. Before you begin helping your child search...
ADD/ADHD and Friends
Research indicates that at least 60% of children diagnosed with ADD/ADHD have difficulty making and keeping friends. Many ADD/ADHD boys, when observed with their peers, seem to be more aggressive, off-task, challenging and argumentative. Girls, who tend to be more aware of their disorder, often have a thought process that hinders their desire to make...
Making Friends: How To Help My Child Make Friends
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...
Values and Children: 20 Ways To Teach Values
Author Leah Davies shares in her article, “20 Ways To Foster Values in Children,” some worthwhile information that parents may want to consider while instilling and teaching values to their children. Yes, we want our children to be able to read and write, solve basic math problems and communicate effectively with others, but what about...
Money: What All Children Need to Know
Parenting children to learn to manage money is important. Too many parents avoid this area of teaching until the child is an adult; 18 or older. When we wait to teach children about money, and how to manage it until they’re adults, they learn primarily as a result of their own successes and failures. Some...
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