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Home-Based Education

Home education is rapidly re-emerging as the method of choice for a many families around the world. Exact numbers are difficult to quote since in many areas home educating families are not required to register...
Sensing and Intuition

Do you remember the student who always had the answer before you had grasped the question and then had difficulty explaining how they got it as you struggled with the step by step process that you knew would lead...
Music Lessons

Music lessons, or the absence of lessons are the memories that cause most parents to consider lessons for their own children. Music lessons, or any lessons, might seem extravagant especially when money...
School Uniforms

How would you feel if your child's school proposed a mandatory school uniform policy? In some parts of the country and especially throughout the United States, the debate over school uniforms is raging - opponents...
Enriching Each Other

Music lessons, or the absence of lessons are the memories that cause most parents to consider lessons for their own children. Music lessons, or any lessons, might seem extravagant especially when money is tight...
My Child a Model?

"My kid's just as cute as those kids on the cereal box. Everyone says so! Should I go to one of those agencies and register my kid as a professional model?" According to Chuck DeLaney, Dean of the New York...
Kids and I.Q.

Call me a màre of little brain, but I can't quite understand this obsession in the news media with stories about IQ and kids. The latest: breast fed babies, it has been discovered, have higher...
Montessori Education

The Importance of the Early Years Dr. Montessori, one of the most important educators of our time, emphasized the need for early education. She wrote, "The most important period of life is not the age of...
Set the Stage for Lifelong Learning

"The way you interact with your child in the early years and the experiences you provide or encourage have a big impact on your child's emotional development, learning abilities and how he functions in later...
Testing 1,2,3 (Grade Three Testing)

When elementary school student Carrie Ellis wrote her first set of standardized tests, her results were not very good. As the school year progressed, Carrie followed the same pattern, doing well in her daily...
Make Read Aloud Sessions Manditory - They're Magic

Bedtime has long been the traditional read-aloud story time. With all the pressures of modern life, is it really essential to make sure your child...
Kids are discovering that summer is a great time to read a good book.

Is it possible to spend your summer vacation hitting the books and actually having fun at the same time? It sure is, if the immense and growing...
Making School Trips Safe

I loved school field trips when I was a kid. Even if my class headed out the door to a neighboring park to collect colorful maple leaves for a fall art project, it was a real treat to break free from the...
Make Your Home 'School Friendly'

Is your home filled with sounds like "Mom, where is my homework?" As moms everywhere gear up to battle the Back to School stress and vow once again to be more organized this year, let me offer some preventative...
Olympic Supermom's Child's Play

What does a superwoman Olympic medalist become when she has kids? A supermom! Unlike many of us, Silken Laumann has non-stop energy, passing her passion for play down to her kids. She's written Child's Play...