School

[Warning: You may smile and have way too much fun!]
Dear Parents:
The following activities are fun ways to interact and play with your child while learning reading skills at the same time. It is very, very important that you join your child in this fun. Skills to focus on include forming letters, naming letters, naming the [...]

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As featured on Chicago’s WMBI Morning Radio Program
“A recent poll of 46,000 teens by the Boys and Girls Clubs of America found that dealing with peers is the leading source of stress for kids, ahead of school, relationships and violence.” (Family Circle magazine, January ‘08) So how can you help your child deal with peer [...]

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I read an article last year about bullying and the potentially fatal results it could have upon a child/teenager. A mom, Tammy Epling, was the feature story of this article about how teenage bullying, she believes, caused her son’s suicide.
Matt, a happy athletic eight grader, graduated from middle school and was bullied by some [...]

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Homeschooling is becoming more and more prevelant as the challenges to meet individual students’ needs increase. Some good friends of mine, Lori and Brad, have a daughter, Leah, with Down’s Syndrome. The public school Leah was attending claimed to be able to meet Leah’s special needs but in the end failed to meet [...]

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