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How to Encourage Your Struggling Reader
When you have a reluctant or struggling reader on your hands, it fills you with anxiety and concern about how best to intervene. Studies show that as students move through the grades, voluntary reading...
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Blogs, Wikis, Forums & Podcasts
"Social software enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication and to form online communities." Wikipedia The Internet has changed how we...
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Our Children: Healthy Body, Healthy Mind
As our children reach their pre-teen and teen years, some parents start to notice that their children are not as active as they used to be. Researchers tell us that obesity rates are on the rise for children...
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Button Down Healthy Sleep Habits for Special Needs Kids
More children than ever before are being diagnosed with special needs "neurobiological disorders" such as ADHD, clinical depression...
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A Munsch Moment
As Honorary Chair of ABC CANADA Family Literacy Day™, Robert Munsch recently updated his "A Minute with Munsch" with fun new questions and answers, including his current favourite...
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Understanding the “New Math”
As a parent in Ontario, you may have noticed that your children are learning complex math concepts at an earlier age, or through different teaching methods than you did when you were in school. This is partly...
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Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me
Excerpted from NOBODY LIKES ME, EVERYBODY HATES ME: The Top 25 Friendship Problems and How to Solve Them by Michele Borba Jossey-Bass Publishers. ISBN 0-7879-7662-8 What were you thinking?"...
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How to Make the Most of Your Child’s Education
Out of the many aspects of parenting, one of the most important jobs you have is to ensure that your children receive a good education. Many try to...
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Encourage Your Child's Language Development
In the upcoming articles, I will be directing your attention to ways of enhancing your child's language development. The first topic may be...
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How Babies Learn
As parents, we have a vital role to play in our children's development. By the time we hand them over to teachers at the age of five, most of their basic learning skills are in place. A happy, confident child...
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Never Too Early To Read To Your Child
At one time or another, your school-aged child should have come home with a booklet written by Ben Wicks, entitled Born to Read. It's one of the most succinct, clearly written pieces I have read about...
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Money Smarts
Children are a whole lot smarter today then when I was a child. Television, computers and the internet have allowed our kids to access information we never dreamed of when we were kids. Given our kids&rsquo...
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The Parental Involvement Puzzle
The other day I got a phone call from my son's English teacher, Mr. Owen, saying in a warm, almost apologetic-sounding voice, "Andrew has a project, a biography, long past due and I have to submit his...
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Motivation for Good Grades
"It's not fair! All our friends get paid for good grades. Jeff gets $15.00 for each A!" How many times have parents heard this complaint? Sorry ... in my household, we don't pay for any type of...
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Is My Child Gifted?
As a parent, you will be the first to notice some differences among siblings and/or playmates. One child may have advanced language skills; another may show unusual musicality. Knowing every child is different...
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