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Questions to ask next time you meet with your child's teacher.
Making the right choice for the lunchroom. Making sure children eat a healthy lunch at school can be challenging, whether they eat in the cafeteria or pack a lunch from home.
It is a parent's nightmare that their child may get lost in the school bus shuffle of the first day. We worry kids won't recognize their bus number or the driver, or think to look for buddies. We offer some tips to calm first-time rider jitters.
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.
Discovery Place helps kids 'think it up.' With schools cutting budgets across the Charlotte region, parents are taking a more active role in their children's education.
It's almost time for alarm clocks, busses, notebooks, and schedules, which means it's back-to-school time. It's been a super hot summer, so many may be ready for the coolness of the classroom.
Are online fantasy worlds too enticing for your child? Webkinz. Whyville. Club Penguin. Poptropica. These virtual worlds, and many others like them, create simulated environments for kids to interact with other online kid users or to create imaginative worlds of their own online.
Preparing young students for a global future. Back to school means back to the basics, and in Carolina classrooms today, this means more than just reading, writing and arithmetic.
Keep your kids learning this summer with science activities.
In June (2009), we began seeking nominations from our community of parents in homeschools, educators, administrators and school counselors in both private and public schools, and even our readers, to find 12 teens whose outstanding character, leadership and heart, distinguished them from the rest.
With all children, it's important to ask: What would be a perfect summer for you? What projects do you want to do?
Between 2 and 3, most children will acquire a vocabulary of about 450 words.
Children’s experiences of singing, dancing, listening and exploring instruments from birth to age 7 shape their musical aptitude for the future.
There’s an interesting juxtaposition when a child goes to college. The child celebrates the successful culmination of years of academic pressures, while the parents grapple with a different kind of pressure: how to pay for a higher education.
The College Foundation of North Carolina advises:
1. Open a N.C. 529 college savings plan. In addition to federal tax advantages, the state offers a tax deduction for contributions.
My seventh-grader is very bright (IQ is 148) and has been in a full-time gifted program for elementary and middle school.
Kids with weaknesses in planning and organization have trouble independently imposing structure and order to tasks and ideas.
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?
"Did I get any mail today, huh Mom, huh?" my 10-year-old asked impatiently.
"What makes you think you’re going to get mail? Did you write someone a letter?"
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.
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.
The fundamentals of handwriting are still introduced to children as early as age 3. But the progression of penmanship education — from print to cursive — is being interrupted by technology.
At school, children certainly spend time learning the three R’s, but what about the three E’s?
John Banks loves competition, and there's nowhere he's more competitive than on the tennis court.
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