Toddler Education
Preparing Your Preschooler For School
It's an exciting, albeit often bittersweet moment. The start of school. Preschool is a milestone for parent and child alike. However, you may be a bit overwhelmed with what you need to do to prepare your child, and yourself, for t...
Preschool Disasters: How to Handle Them
Preschool represents a child's entrance into formal education and a step toward independence for your child. While it is exciting and a new stage of development, it often has some missteps and setbacks for many families. While som...
Ready, Set, Read: Specific Activities to Make Your Child a Reader!
Providing positive, enjoyable literacy experiences give young children opportunities to gain the knowledge, awareness, skills, and love of learning that they need to later learn to read independently. Here are 8 ways you can provi...
The Top 10 Ways to Jump-Start Your Toddler's Education
Toddlers have a greater ability to acquire new skills and information than children who are 5, 6, or 7 years old. Research indicates that introducing reading, language, and math skills in the toddler years may make school success...
Is Your Child Ready For Preschool?
After the birth of my first son, I debated the merits of whether or not, when the time came, if I would enroll him in preschool. After all, I never attended preschool. My mother told me she enjoyed me so much, she just wanted to k...
10 Tips for School Success
Success in school doesn’t happen without parental support. Whether your son happily skips off to kindergarten or your daughter trudges down the hall to seventh-grade science class, your child needs your help to succeed in school. ...
School Shootings
We have been given so many wake up calls the past few years about the trouble our school system is in. Have we listened or heard the message? Everyone is putting in security systems and doing drills to keep the schools "safe". Is ...
Teaching Kids the Value of Money
The more we've let our daughter go do things with her friends, the more she takes those things for granted, and expects more. She then resents doing something so menial as her household chores. My husband and I have a 12-year...
Homeschooling ~ What to Teach When
Addition and subtraction first grade. Multiplication-third grade. How do homeschooling parents know what to teach when? There are a couple of ways you can do this. I like to use The World Book Course of Study at http://www.world...