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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

Parenting life coach, Barbara Desmarais, shares her thought and experiences in coaching children to follow directions, be respectful and cooperate. Children are not much different than adults. When we have to follow orders that are barked out, not understood or thought to be unfair, we rebel. This article provides some parenting tips to help you work with an uncooperative child.

“I don’t have to do it!”

In speaking with parents a comment I frequently hear is “My child won’t listen!” Repeated attempts in trying to get a child to co-operate often lands on deaf ears and leaves parents feeling exhausted and helpless. Frequently we say things we later regret and become riddled with guilt. Usual attempts often include… Continue Reading

Do ‘Helicopter Moms and Dads’ Do More Harm Than Good?
‘Hovering Parents’ Have Become Common on College Campuses

By ABC News: 20/20 television Series

The term, “helicopter parent” has been around for over a decade. Some parents are insulted when another parent asks if they are a “helicopter parent,” or “helicopter mom.” The term has become more commonly accepted. It refers to a parent who has the desire to fly in and fly out with the purpose of rescuing their child in distress. Most parents, who love their children, have been on rescuing missions (some using a jet, instead of a helicopter) to rescue their child. This article, presented by ABC News has some interesting points to make regarding this… Continue Reading

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 high schools offer “Personal Finance” classes.  The majority of high school students, however, do not select these types of courses because they interfere with other required math classes for college preparation. Many parents report that their money management skills are often not what they’d like them to be or our finances are so complex that how we handle our money doesn’t mean much to a child.

Many children will… Continue Reading

When you take your child to the library, check out a book for you. Then set a good example by reading yourself. Ask your child to get one of his books and join you while you read a book, magazine, or newspaper. Don’t worry if you feel uncomfortable with your own reading ability.

Just doing it counts. When your child sees that reading is important to you, he may decide it is important to him, too.
 How Does a Book Work?

Children are fascinated by how a book looks and feels. They see how easily you work with it, and they want to make it work, too. When your toddler watches you handle books, she begins to learn that a book is for reading, not… Continue Reading

Do you have a demanding child?

It’s not unusual for Children to begin to make some kind of demanding remarks between the ages of two and four years of age. This behavior is often a test given by a child to test parent limits and boundaries. Children who are demanding often are seeking control or may be facing some stress in their life. Parents who avoid stopping a child’s inappropriate demands… Continue Reading

 Do your children know the rules for the road?

School bus drivers have set rules that the school children must follow for the safety of all who ride the bus.  Elementary students are taught these rules during the school day.  If a student does not follow these rules, they are told that they may have to have an assigned seat, be suspended from the bus or be expelled permanently from the bus.  Parents may train their children with similar rules.  Here are some parenting tips:

· Sit down with your child and let them know the purpose of riding in a car.  “Cars are used to get us safely from our home to where we want to be.”  Ask the child these questions:
1. What… Continue Reading

Loving your child is…

There are hundreds of ways to show love for your child. Some are simple and some are not hard to do at all. Child psychologist and child development experts shared that you can not say “I love you” to your child too many times.  It’s important, however, before any parent can begin to show love toward their child, is to ask these two questions:

“What is love?” and “Do I love myself as a parent”

Yes, it’s important to love yourself first. As your child grows up, he or she will certainly be able to tell if you love yourself. They will be able to tell by the way you demonstrate your love for them. You see, the… Continue Reading

As a school counselor, I am beginning to see more younger females who exhibit the symptoms of depression or have been diagnosed with depression. Stress appears to be a leading factor for depression in younger females. Participation in too many activities, desire to get good grades and low self-esteem seem to bring about most of the stress symptoms exhibited. Child psychologist and child behavior experts agree that the increase in female teen depression is on the rise. More research in this category of child development needs to be explored. This article explores some of the social, biological and environmental factors involved in this area of depression.

Social and Economic Factors

The role that school, friendships… Continue Reading