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Does More Pressure Need to Be Put on Students?

I got an email from a website, “Online Degrees,” in which you can find a really interesting article, “Pressure from parents: Do students need more of it?” It was interesting to read this after coming off parent/teacher conferences. I have one child that truly cares about their schoolwork and is doing well. I have another child who could take it or leave it. Then I have a child that really doesn’t seem to care. Three very diverse students. The article cites a study done by the “Pew Research Center,” in which 6 in 10 Americans believe that parents aren’t putting … Continue reading →

Summer School Helps Children With Special Needs

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In just a few weeks, the school year will come to an end. Summer vacation can mean up to ten or more weeks away from the structure of a school environment. Children with special needs can lose many of the skills they learned over the school year during the unstructured days of summer vacation. Summer school can help a child retain those hard earned skills. Summer vacation can be a time of relaxation. Often, children look forward to being free from the responsibility of passing tests, doing homework, and attending school. This is a time for families to travel to … Continue reading →

Getting Involved in Your Child’s Schooling

In the past 48 hours I have received not one, not two, not three, but nearly a dozen emails from my daughter’s school imploring parents (namely dads) to help out with the annual Christmas program. Set designs need to be constructed, costumes need to be sewn and audio and lighting issues need to be resolved. Bottom line: The school wants parents to step up in order to make the holiday concert/pageant a rousing success. My point in discussing the avalanche of emails is not to disparage the school in anyway; rather it illustrates a clear attempt to encourage parental involvement. … Continue reading →

10 Toys to Give to a Child with Special Needs This Holiday Season

Black Friday is only a couple of days away! If you’re like me, you’ll stay at home and shop online. Otherwise, you’re preparing your shopping list and getting your running shoes ready for your 4am wake up call. Either way, there are a variety of toys out there that can help the special needs child in your life have fun and develop new skills. You can find them at online specialty stores, or even at your local Toys-R-Us. VTech Move and Crawl Ball for ages 6-36 months helps to develop cause and effect thinking as well as hand coordination. Wedgits … Continue reading →

Getting Your Special Needs Child the Best Education

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It is time to go back to school. You want your child to have the best year yet and to learn and grow. Perhaps your child needs more than pens and paper to get through the year. You’ve heard of plans to help children with special needs succeed in school but perhaps you thought they were only for kids with learning disabilities. The truth is, if your child has a chronic condition that can affect their performance and attendance at school, he or she can qualify for one of the two plans. First there are individualized education plans (IEPs), legal … Continue reading →

Home Teaching Families with Young Children

Home teaching families with young children can be an extra challenge. When visitors come children often feel the need to show off, and they respond by being wild and crazy. Parents may have a difficult time getting the children to sit still, and may be reluctant to use time out since it disrupts the lesson and the meeting in general. For these reasons it is important to plan your lesson specifically with the children in mind. First you should make the lesson and visit shorter than you normally would. Children’s attention spans are not as long, and you should keep … Continue reading →

Tips for Teachers on Dealing with Students

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Teaching and parenting go hand in hand. Teacher skills are very inclusive of parenting skills. Therefore in many cases, teachers must think like parents. There are some key ideas that both teachers and parents can use when concerning children. Check out some of them below and see if you agree or disagree. Children do have a reason for what they do. At some point in time it may see to teachers that students act up simply to make the teacher’s life miserable (especially if you teacher middle school). However this is typically not the case. Even though you may not … Continue reading →

Why So Many Parents Homeschool “Problem” Children

A teacher of a five year old boy is recorded calling the child “pathetic”, “selfish”, and “ignorant” and discouraging other kids from being his friend. The teachers union saying that the teacher’s rights have been violated. A Kindergarten teacher stands one child in front of the classroom and one by one has them tell him what they don’t like about him and have them vote on whether or not he deserves to be in the classroom. The teacher is unapologetic. Both of these incidents hit the national news in the past month. What is worse than these incidents is the … Continue reading →

To Save the Children (1994)

Often, when I read a book that has been made into a movie, I hunt down the movie as well. This was the case with “To Save the Children.” Immediately after finishing the book “When Angels Intervene to Save the Children,” I went to Netflix and put the movie in queue. Richard Thomas plays David Young, a man with startling intellect and wild ideas. David believes that if he kills himself along with several children, they will all be reincarnated and he will become their god in the next life. His wife, Dorsie, has always gone along with his schemes, … Continue reading →

Should You Stop Checking Homework when They Ask You To?

There was a time when homework and schoolwork was a family affair. My kids would settle down at the dining table and we would work on things together or, if they did the work at some other time, they would inevitably ask me to look things over or help in some capacity. Somewhere around the end of middle-school, my role quickly diminished and by high school, it is very rarely that my kids ask me for help with anything. It is generally just requests to sign things or get certain items or materials they might need for a project. I’m … Continue reading →