Parents Tips

Boost Babies’ Health with Mom’s Diet
Prenatal supplements and good advice on proper nutrition during pregnancy have long been included in proper prenatal care. Importance has been placed on folic acid to prevent neural tube defects...

Four Essential Life Skills you Need to Teach Your Child…
Growing up we learn several different skills that we can trace back to our childhood. We also often contemplate what would life had been if our parents had not pushed...

Ten Tips for Your Child's Success in School
It should come as no surprise that success — or failure — at school starts at home. Studies have linked poor academic performance to factors such as a lack of...
Teaching Tips

How to Motivate Students to do Their Homework
Whether you are ‘for’ assigning homework or ‘against’ assigning homework, there are definitely a few advantages to assigning homework to upper elementary students.

9 Creative Teaching Ideas That Can Vastly Improve Student Learning…
Human beings have an attention span of under 8 seconds. This is less than a goldfish. Therefore, if you want to keep your students engaged you should ensure that you think creatively about your teaching methods.

Coaching Children in Handling Everyday Conflicts
Such classroom conflicts are familiar in elementary school life. For years, resolving such conflicts for children filled my days. I lost valuable teaching time, and the children learned nothing about resolving their own conflicts—or preventing...