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Protecting Your Child: Safety Starts With Good Communication

Home should be a place where children feel truly comfortable about talking freely about their likes and dislikes, their friends and their feelings. Parenting children in an atmosphere with open communication, will help both the parent and child feel more comfortable during life’s ups and downs. This secures both parent and child and creates a safer […]

Why Should Parents Teach Life Skills?

boy_with_blocks In the late 1990’s, USA Today released several research studies regarding student readiness to become employed and work outside of the home. These research studies show how important life skills training is in today’s world of work and why parents need to spend more time helping their child learn more than the basics academic […]

Test Taking: True & False Questions

If your child is struggling with test in school, speak with your child’s teachers for study and testing tips strategies. Some school districts offer test-taking classes during the school year and summer. Below are some key testing tip for taking “true-false” test.

Read each test question carefully. Look for familiar key words or facts that you […]

Test Taking: Multiple Choice

Test taking is a skill developed over a period of time as a student progresses in school. Remember, your child’s ability to take a test is just one area of your child’s academic life. Below is a list of test taking tips that can be applied to improve multiple choice test questions. It’s important that children […]

Test Taking: Improving Your Math Test Scores

Learning the skills required to be successful at test-taking, especially in math, takes time. Building confidence is key. Taking practice test is another key. As your child grows older, he or she will become more comfortable taking test. below are some test taking suggestion for math test.

“Practice! Practice! Practice!”

The best method to […]

Test Taking: General Tips That Work for All Test

Some children are great test takers. Other children do not do as well no matter how hard they study. Below are some test taking tips that may help your child improve scores.

  • Have your child get plenty of sleep the night before a test. Your child will be more alert and have a better chance […]

Test Taking Tips: Essay Questions

When studying for essay tests that provide you with questions in advance:

  1. Research and find all the information or facts to thoroughly answer the question.
  2. Write the essay in advance. Practice answering the essay by actually writing it before you take the test.
  3. Study and memorize. Outline key points in your mind.

While taking an essay test it is important to […]

How to Help Your Overweight Child

At least one in five children under the age of 18 is overweight. Children who grow up overweight have a tendency to develop a lower self-esteem, avoid improving social skills and often find it difficult to achieve at a higher academic standard. Below are some parenting tips that parents can may want to consider to help […]

What Causes Children To Become Overweight?

In the United States at least one child in five is overweight and the number of overweight children continues to grow. Over the last 2 decades, this number has increased by more than 50 percent, and the number of “extremely” overweight children has nearly […]

Making Art Fun!

The visual arts (drawing, painting, printmaking, photography) enrich our lives and help children express their emotions. For preschoolers, doing artwork helps them get ready to read and write by developing visual and motor skills. Doing artwork gives older children the opportunity to get away from a desk and use different learning styles to explore beyond words and numbers.

Here are […]


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