Tackling Academic Challenges: Tip #5-Reward Their Efforts

Here’s the last tip in our series.
 
Just to review:
 
Tip 1.  Identify the problem
 
Tip 2.  Help them decide on an action plan
 
Tip 3.  Be their compass
 
Tip 4.  Come up for air
 
Tip 5.  Reward their efforts   
 
Our role is a constant and committed one. We want the very best for our children. We know how tough the [...]

Tackling Academic Challenges: Tip #2–Decide on an Action Plan

Tip #2 – Help them decide on an action plan.
 
Once you know what the real deal is, you can then help them develop a plan and strategy to cope with their issues. Perhaps they need to stay after school or get a tutor. Maybe they need to hang with a different circle of friends or [...]

Tackling Academic Challenges: Tip#1–Identify the Problem

The school is starting to wind down and in a few months students will begin their summer break.  Your child may have had a shaky foundation through the school year.  Though you may have done all the right stuff and put all the tools in place for success, your child may still be facing academic [...]

Organization–Mom, where’s my stuff?

“Mom, where’s my…?”  If I (Donna) had just one dollar for every time my three kids have asked me this question, I’d been set!  They think that I’m their personal GPS for all of their stuff and too often I actually know where things are–not because I put them there but because as a mom [...]

Organization–Time is on your side!

Time management–is there really such a thing?  Can we manage time or do we need to manage ourselves with the time that we have? 
 
Understanding time and our ability to make the most of our best hours is still something we struggle with as adults.  It should comes as no surprise to us then that kids [...]

Organization–Can’t get it out of my head!

Does your child study for hours and then go blank and forgot everything needed for the test?

Does your child stare at a blank piece of paper not knowing where to start or what to write?

Does your child hear the teacher tell the class the assignment during the day but then forgets what the homework is [...]

In the Homestretch

If you’re kids are like mine, they reluctantly pulled themselves back to reality as they headed back to school after Spring Break.  Now they only have several weeks left and yet another school year will be behind them.  How will they wrap up the year?  As the weather changes and our kids find it harder to [...]

Developing Thinkers

Our children have come to look for easy answers and a quick-fix approach, not only to their school work, but life situations as well.  Helping our kids develop as thinkers is one of the greatest gifts we can give them.  If they can think and learn then they can succeed.  They will be able to [...]

Preschool Writing Activities - Fun Ways to Teach Your Child to Write

Here’s an article from a homeschool mom that I thought our preschool parents would find helpful.  Enjoy!
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Preschool Writing Activities - Fun Ways to Teach Your Child to Write
By http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Carletta_Sanders Carletta Sanders
 
Put down those boring worksheets!  The best way to teach your preschooler to write is to use simple preschool writing activities that make learning fun.  [...]

The First Quarter Progress Report and a Great Start!

     Now that we’re back in the swing of things and the familiarity of the back to school routine, it becomes easier to see the direction our kids are headed with their school work.
 
     By now,  we have a feel for which teachers they love and those they’re not so fond of, which subjects are a [...]