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Teach Your Child to Save

Saving is a concept that can be challenging to accomplish in our society of commercialism, taxes and ever increasing prices. Nevertheless, we should try to save for those rainy days because eventua...

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How To Help Your Teen Succeed

Almost every parent of a teenager has anxiety about where their child will be in ten years. The teen years are the most difficult to get through for parents and teens alike. First of all, the tee...

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Keeping Your Child Safe Online

Many parents are worried about their children when they leave the house. However, what about when your child is at home and online? Unfortunately, today's technology has allowed a new kind of pre...

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Start A Preschool Homeschool

Your child is finally four years old and you can't decide whether to put your child in a preschool or daycare. There is another option - start your own preschool home school. There are no state req...

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You Can Teach Homeschool!

If you thought you had to have a college degree to teach homeschool, think again! Many parents are finding out more about teaching homeschool because of the recent rise in popularity of this teachi...

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Nurturing The Genius in Your Child

All children are born with the capacity to become geniuses. Children have twice as many brain connections as adults and because their natural creativity has not yet been stifled by the constraints ...

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More Movement, Smarter Kids

Most people can understand how physical activity can impact not only their child's physical development but also his social/emotional development.

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Intellectual Capacity and the Young Child

The best thing parents can do to develop the intellectual capacity of their children is to expose them to a variety of learning experiences.

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Developing Fluency in Young Children

Fluency in reading and talking can come at different stages for different children. It is important when that milestone is reached that parents encourage their children to improve their literacy sk...

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Battling "Back to School" Budget Blues

So, as the lazy summer routines give way to more structure every August, this is when spending skills are tested for most families.

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Choosing a Personal Tutor for your Child

Poor academic performance is not something a parent can afford to ignore. As past performance will determine your child’s future class placement, it is important to find the root of the problem and...

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Teen Driver Ed

Your teenager comes home and tells you they are ready to take a teen driver ed course. Are you ready? Here are some tips to help you and your teen get ready for this rite of passage!

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Creating Schools that Work

Is your child’s school not living up to your expectations? Have administrators stated there simply aren’t enough local or state resources (money, staff, and/or space) available to provide quality,...

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The peril of “No Child Left Behind”

Though our elected representatives are considering some changes to the legislation, the focus of NCLB is still on standards and accountability. This is inherently problematic as legislators are o...

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Choosing The Right Preschool

In today’s hectic world, it is sometimes easy to forget about the important details in life simply because we are too swamped with work, afterschool activities and our homelives. But one of the mo...

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Learning in the 21st Century

Many U.S. elementary and secondary schools, public or otherwise, are social dinosaurs. Despite “expert” rhetoric and the push for academic success and achievement (i.e. high grades, completion of ...

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The Preschool Debate

In the last couple of decades preschools have maintained a growing popularity but preschools are changing. Parents have debated over whether they should send their child off to preschool at the age...

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Help Your Child to Learn Vocabulary Words

If your child has difficulty learning vocabulary words there are ways that you can make it fun for them. Instead of going over the list of words in a mechanical, repetitive fashion try making a gam...

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The Value of Reading Aloud to our Children

Most children learn three-quarters of the words that they will use in their lives (at least in their primary language) by the time they are four or five years old. How do they manage to amass this ...

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Finding Age-Appropriate Reading For Our Kids

Many parents are concerned about media: the violence and adult situations their children can be exposed to through movies, television and music. Many look to reading as a healthier alternative to t...

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