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If you've heard of peaceful parenting, you're likely familiar with setting limits for a child to hear. But the difficulty doesn't come from applying those limits; it comes from choosing limits that meet your needs and your family's requirements but that your child can still hear and understand. While something may sound perfectly reasonable to […]

Parenting

Teachers Are Helping Raise Students.

For parents and teachers, it can be challenging to bridge that divide between the educator and the person who is raising a child. After all, one job belongs to the parent, and one belongs to a teaching professional. But in modern-day child-raising, this concept is more blurred than ever. With children spending upwards of 40 […]

Well-being

How to Keep Calm While Parenting

If you're a parent, you'll know that maintaining a calm and healthy relationship with your kids is not always easy. You're human, after all, and occasionally your emotions will get in the way of your ability to make rational decisions and get through moments of turbulence. However, keeping calm while parenting is vital if you […]

Well-being

The Case Against Praising Children

At first glance, it may seem like an unpopular viewpoint, but plenty of ink has been spilled discussing the merits and detriments of giving children a lot of praise. There is nothing wrong with praise itself. It’s just the way that a lot of parents give it that is the problem. Congratulating a child for […]

Parent

Parents, We Need to Support Our Kids Teachers

When parents support their kids’ teachers, the learning benefits are undeniable. This relationship becomes a shared source of a child’s learning challenges, difficulties, and solutions. It is a bond built on educational foundations to help navigate and motivate kids to learn. Teaching requires specific skills, education, creativity, and communication. On any given day " your […]

Behavior

Teaching Students Without Parental Help

Not all students are lucky enough to have parents invested in their education – and yes, it can be tough teaching students without parental help. Whether for innocent reasons, neglect, or other home-life situations, not every student has a parent that can show up for them " even when they're needed the most. As teachers, […]

Parenting

Parenting is Not Easy

Like the generations before, parenting today is still a challenge. What we have in common with the past generations is a desire to make sure our children are happy and healthy and grow into confident adults. From the day of announcing the upcoming birth, parents find their lives filled with excitement, anticipation, and worry about […]

Child

How to Tell Your Kids About Santa

One of the most touchy subjects for parents, and a clear sign your child is rapidly growing up right in front of your eyes, is the 'Is Santa Real?" question. Often stemming from a talk on the playground or in the classroom, if you've made Santa a key figure in your holiday experience, the concept […]

Special Education

504 Education Plan (What is it?)

Every parent and educator believes that each child deserves a good education. So does the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), a federal-level organization creating educational policies like Section 504. It ensures that kids with disabilities have the right to seek help in conquering academic learning hurdles throughout the nation’s public school systems. As a federal […]

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