12 Back-to-School Essentials You Didn’t Realize You Needed (…until now)
Back-to-school ideas for items that you might not even realize you need until you really need them! These are time-saving, must-have items for your family!
Back-to-school ideas for items that you might not even realize you need until you really need them! These are time-saving, must-have items for your family!
Should I put my son is a private preschool even though it will be quite expensive for our family?
Time marches on, and now that my kid is halfway through her junior year, college planning is beginning in earnest. There’s so much to think about!
Having an invisible disability is hard; having an invisible disability as a high school student and being scoffed at by a teacher is worse. Don’t be that teacher.
A regular reader returns needing advice on how to help with her “easygoing” and “gifted” child who has suddenly been exhibiting disruptive and negative-attention seeking behaviors.
A mom is trying to decide whether she should hold her son back a year in preschool before sending him to kindergarten since she’s concerned he won’t be ready for the educational expectations.
Today’s kids are being pushed to pick out their career paths way too young, I think, and I’d rather we teach them to keep an open mind and adventuresome spirit.
With my teens sharing a class for the first time, the inevitable comparisons are making me wonder how I can coax the best out of each of them.
Ah, homework. It can be the bane of your existence. It may be your nightly battle. Here we tackle finding the balance between helping your children accomplish their responsibilities and fostering independence.
I know very little about wine pairings, but I do know what you should bake for your next meeting at school.
I think my second grader has inattentive ADD/ADHD. What should I do to get him the help he needs at school?
To say the high school goal is to graduate is much like saying one’s career goal is to be successful; both are temporal.
A reader wants to know how you teach kids to study when they’re resistant to doing so. This may not be the answer she wants, but it’s all I’ve got.
My youngest is about to embark on a new adventure: college (as a dual-enrolled high schooler)! It’s weird and wonderful and scary and awesome.
Power struggles with your teen may feel inevitable, but when you add homework issues to the mix, is there any hope for peace and productivity? I say yes.
Got a high school junior? It’s time to start planning for college! Here is some advice for finding the balance between being smart and not freaking out.
Visiting college campuses? It’s an exciting and terrifying time. Here’s some questions to ask while you’re touring to help keep the overwhelm to a minimum.
A mom needs help teaching her child effective homework skills, especially when there are younger ones around whose homework is to distract their older sibling.
Even though we’ve been incredibly lucky to have a great teacher in our lives as long as we have, saying goodbye is never easy.
The dance of special education gets a lot more complicated as kids hit the teen years; the challenge is to balance support with increased responsibility.