Fostering Your Child’s Creativity
Activities to encourage creativity.
Author: Marge Eberts
Is My Child Ready for Kindergarten?
How to figure out what's best for your child.
How to Motivate a Middle Schooler
If a middle-school student is totally unmotivated in school, it's time to schedule a meeting with your child's teacher.
Getting the Most From a Parent-Teacher Conference
Don't let the time slip by without getting the information you want.
The Positive Learning Effects of Dad
Why a father's participation in the educational process is paramount to a child's progress.
Keep Kids Learning All Summer Long
How to find a quality summer learning program, and what opportunities parents can provide at home.
8 Ways to Help Your Kid Become a Better Listener
Try some of these activities with your child to help him become a better listener.
Teaching Children to Overcome Failure
How to help children learn to cope with failure.
Teaching Children to do Homework Independently
Find out how a children can gain satisfaction by handling a task themselves.
How to Reduce Your Child’s Math Anxiety
How to eliminate stress when dealing with mathematics.
Developing More Awareness of Geography
Find out how you can help your kids learn more about geography.
10 Reasons Preschool Programs Benefit Children
Find out what benefits preschool programs offer children.
Middle-School Multitasking Does Not Mix with School Work
Parents need to set rules regarding social media and digital distractions during homework time to help children manage study time with limited distractions.
Summer Fun to Build Brain Power
Consider these tips to keep your kids learning and their minds — and bodies — active.
Setting Media Use Rules for Children
Four popular rules to establish to impact how much time your children spend on media entertainment.
Homeschooling Can Be Right for Some Children
Some children don't thrive in a traditional classroom setting, but instead learn better with more hands-on opportunities. Homeschooling can be a good option for these students if it's a fit for the family.
How to Stop Children from Being Quitters
Tips to help children learn how to tackle difficult assignments.
Resolutions to Boost Your Children’s Skills
This year, resolve to support your children's interests with the following tips.
Teacher Talk: Kindergarten Starting Age Can Affect Entire Life
Teaachers discuss kindergarten age, school district assignments and transitional kindergarten.
Teacher Talk: Finding Tutoring Help
Teachers discuss finding a tutor and helping children overcome classroom shyness.
Teacher Talk: Saving for College
Teachers discuss saving for college, reading levels and textbook aids.
Teacher Talk
Teachers discuss paying for grades, skipping kindergarten and raising funds for school.
Teacher Talk: How to Resolve Freezing Up on Tests
Freezing up on tests, video game addiction and putting your child on the path to A's and B's.
Teacher Talk: Disorganization Can Work for a Child
Teachers discuss getting organized, testing gifted children and adjusting to a new school.
Teacher Talk: Evaluating a Young Child’s Writing Skills
Teachers answer questions about writing skills, behavior problems and Response to Intervention.
Teacher Talk: Communicating With Your Children’s Teachers
Teachers answer questions on parent/teacher communication, Facebook and homework help.
Easing Back-to-School Anxiety
Easing back-to-school anxiety and limiting TV time.
Teacher Talk: Summer Social Studies Activities
Make learning fun this summer with these social studies activities.
Teacher Talk: Home Schooling Laws and Skills Testing
Q. My sister is home schooling her 10-year-old son. It seems to me he knows far less than my child, who is the same age. My nephew has never been taught how to do division, and he rarely does any…
Teacher Talk: Avoiding Kindergarten Retention
Understanding how to talk with your child's teacher to help meet benchmarks, and tips to teach multiplication.
Teacher Talk
Ideas to celebrate Arbor Day, plus learning to spell with songs and dealing with the stubborn child.
Teacher Talk
What to do about two hours of kindergarten homework, and correct spelling.
Teacher Talk
Understanding standardized test scores, plus a handy tip to do math word problems.
Onomatopoeias Make Learning to Read Fun
V'room ... how using words that imitate sounds helps kids learn to read.
Teacher Talk
Cursive writing disappearing, does it matter?; end-of-year resolutions; and problems with silent reading.
Mischievous … and Misbehaving at School
My son, a first-grader, is a saint at home, but he behaves terribly at school. I get an e-mail from his teacher almost every day about his constant talking, making funny noises and getting out of his seat.
Poor Adjustment to Kindergarten
Expert advice on how to make a smooth transition to kindergarten. Plus how much sleep do kids need?
Preparing for Parent-Teacher Conferences
Questions to ask next time you meet with your child's teacher.
Planning Strategies for Back to School
Everyone always talks about getting kids ready to go back to school. Now is the time to think about areas that presented continuous problems last year.
Summer Science Activities
Keep your kids learning this summer with science activities.
Summer Plans and Gifted Children
With all children, it's important to ask: What would be a perfect summer for you? What projects do you want to do?
Teacher Talk: Speech Delays and Homework Distractions
Between 2 and 3, most children will acquire a vocabulary of about 450 words.
Requirements for a Rigorous IB Program
My seventh-grader is very bright (IQ is 148) and has been in a full-time gifted program for elementary and middle school.
Spelling and Social Studies
My son, a third-grader, has a difficult time spelling many of the words he uses in his daily work. However, he does great on his weekly spelling tests — all "A" grades. Can you explain this? How can I help him?
How Much Homework Help is Too Much?
My fifth-grader has never found school to be easy. In the past, he has kept his head above water because I have worked with him a lot. This year, my son’s teacher doesn’t want parents to help with homework. He can’t always handle it on his own, so I’ve had to explain some of the work to him.
Wake Up Kids’ Writing Skills
Is there a way I can improve my 9-year-old daughter’s writing skills? She is a brilliant reader, but her writing skills are below average according to the teacher. She never is "in the mood" to write, even on my laptop.
Maneuvering Middle School
Is skipping fifth grade a challenge? Can parents still stay involved in their child's school life in middle school? Find answers to these tough questions.
Younger Child May Fare Well in Kindergarten
Kindergarten age appropriateness, book report woes and end of year strategies from our experienced educators.
The Secrets of Getting Good Grades
Parents find answers to reading readiness and kindergarten expectations
Get a Jump Start on Math
Find fun, brain-stimulating activities for the kids to do over the summer months, and prepare for the coming year.
