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Author :: Kenneth Williams  |
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| Article Title :: Grandparents! Help Your Grandkids Do Math! |
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| This may come as a surprise.But despite all the advances in education, many kids still
struggle in the math class.Math is an important subject, yet many kids just don't "get
it".Teachers can only devote a limited amount of personal
attention to each student.And parents are so busy with their own work nowadays, they
don't have time to help their children with school work.That's where YOU, the grandparent, come in!Grandparents teach their grandchildren through example and
play a role in encouraging them to be successful and set
goals.Grandparents are naturally forgiving and patient, and
children sense that.As a grandparent you can help (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Kenneth Williams |
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| Article Title :: 5 Ways To Help Your Kids Do Math |
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| Uh oh.Your kids arrive home with their school reports and it's
poor marks from the math department. Now what do you do?You may not be a math teacher, but thankfully there are ways
you can help your kids improve their grades.Studies have shown that children are much more likely to
perform well in a subject that interests them.So here are 5 ways to get your kids excited about math and
actually looking forward to the next math class:1. Inspire them.Some kids don't enjoy math because they just can't see the
point of it. Unlike reading or painting, all those
mathematical symbols and numbers don't seem to mean
anything.What you need to do is sh (read full article) |
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Author :: Judy H. Wright |
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| Article Title :: Assume Personal Responsibility? Who, Me? |
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| As thinking, acting human beings we have the ability to choose our response to events, people and circumstances. We do not become responsible when we mature; we mature when we become responsible.Psychologists teach that the only reasons people are ever motivated or moved to action is to gain a reward or avoid a penalty. As you teach this principal to the children in your charge be sure to explain what they will gain or lose by the choices they make.Personal Responsiblity is an ever widening circle of people, places and events affected by our decisions. In the center of that circle, an area which many people never get beyond is:ME: I am in charge of those things th (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Dan Edmunds |
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| Article Title :: Child's Play: Treating The Insanity of the Mental Health System |
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| In today's mental health system there is a pattern of fraud and coercion that takes way the freedoms and dignity of children and their families. Children are receiving stigmatizing labels and being prescribed psychotropic drugs with many untoward effects. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, MD made the comment that if an individual hit us with a blackjack and robbed us of our dignity we would call them thugs, yet psychiatrists label and drug children and rob them of their dingity and nothing is said. All in the name of profit. Rarely, if never are the families given informed consent. Szasz has also stated, "From a sociological point of view, psychiatry is a secular institution to regulate domestic (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Dan Edmunds |
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| Article Title :: Entering Their Imaginative World |
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| In dealing with children with autism spectrum disorders, its all about relationship. These children are within a realm where they feel and respond much differently than others. There has been much focus on trying to eliminate certain behaviors or to evoke particular responses in children which actually become rote and repetitive for them without context. One of the goals in aiding these children should be in helping them find meaning. In order to do this we must be willing to not look at the child as broken, unable to respond, or even unable to communicate. These children DO communicate, however they are not always able to manipulate their senses to communicate in the typical ways of othe (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Sue Blaney |
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| Article Title :: Raising Teenagers? Stay C.A.L.M. |
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| Parents of teenagers frequently ask what can be done to improve their relationship with their kids. This can be a challenging time, and a time when parents sometimes feel rejected, out of touch, and unclear about what to do. Here’s a simple strategy that can help set you up for a smoother ride.Stay C.A.L.M. Why “calm”? When teenagers are asked what parents can do to help keep communication open, teens invariably reply: “Don’t freak out!” Evidently, teens’ perceptions are, when they are sharing something important, or sensitive, parents too often go off the deep end. There is no surer way to shut down communication than to over-react. Parents may have difficulty not r (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Sue Blaney |
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| Article Title :: ZERO Tolerance: How Firm the Line? |
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| A friend phoned her neighbor, complaining about the wafts of marijuana smoke that circled up and into to her kitchen window from the neighbor’s driveway during the warm summer nights. The neighbor’s teenagers and their friends were smoking out in the driveway. My friend said the mother’s response was, “Well, that’s what kids do, isn’t it?”What parents expect of our kids often becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.It seems simple, in the above example, to see the mother at fault. Many of us who are dead set against our kids using drugs don’t have trouble seeing the error in her ways.But what about alcohol use? This issue feels much less clear to many paren (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Sue Blaney |
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| Article Title :: Teenagers and Stress: What Parents Can Do to Help |
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| More and more parents are expressing their concerns about how to support their teenagers who are complaining about the stress in their lives.What parents may not realize, is that what they do every day by providing healthy food, support, and a comforting home, provides the very stress-antidotes their teens need. Deborah Weinstock-Savoy, Ph.D.,a psychologist who specializes in working with families says “The basic nurturing that parents offer in providing a loving and comfortable home is the first line of defense.”Weinstock-Savoy points out that home should be a place where kids can re-charge their batteries, feel safe and supported. When teenagers have the support they n (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Sue Blaney |
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| Article Title :: Tips for Parents of Teenagers: Don't Just Survive - Thrive! |
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| What makes parenting so challenging at times? One widespread research study reports that feeling “unprepared” tops the list for many parents’ causes of dissatisfaction. And parents of teenagers, in particular, may feel this acutely as so many changes converge at once: adolescents are changing in every conceivable way while they often push parents away in their search for individuality. That this often happens during parents’ own mid-life changes only adds to the poignancy of this period in a family’s life.So how can parents prepare for this dynamic journey? Here are some tips:Learn about adolescent developmentYou probably read about babies before your first (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Sue Blaney |
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| Article Title :: Parents of Teens: Do You Ever Ask "WHY is she so MEAN to me?" |
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| Do you ever wonder what is behind the occasional nasty attitudes expressed by your teenager? Teenagers can make their parents feel pretty badly at times; if they only knew how much their words and actions sometimes hurt us they’d probably stop. Perhaps.It isn’t a developmental necessity that teenagers be mean to their parents, but enough of them demonstrate this behavior that it not only warrants examination here, it is the topic of frequent discussion among parents. And when young adults look back, they say things like “I’m still apologizing to my mom for how I treated her when I was in high school.”Why do they act this way? What’s behind this behavior? Here ar (read full article) |
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