Education & Learning |
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Letting Go
Watching a child depart for university can be at once exhilarating and scary for a parent. In some ways, a parent’s job is to help each child achieve independence, so a child that is making the move from home...
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Backpack Safety
Parents spend an average of $1,098 (1) and countless hours ensuring their children get off to the right start for the school year – from school books to electronic accessories to nutritious snacks – and...
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Back-to-School: Get Organized and Get Ready for the Best School Year Ever
Starting to panic when you think of all the things that stand between you, the kids, and that first day of school? Becoming increasingly convinced...
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Beat the Back to School Blues
Coping with the fear of the unknown, meeting new teachers, plus the anxiety of being separated from parents and siblings are all bound to make children nervous when beginning - or returning to school. Specialists...
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What do you want to do?
For more than half the 17 to 20-year-old student population, choosing a career is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle. And the more students feel unequipped to make a career choice, the more likely they are to...
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Reading Report Cards
When the school term ends and the report cards come home, it can be just as stressful for parents as it is for students. As a parent, it is important for you to know how to interpret your child's report card and...
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How to Read a Report Card
Report cards get too little attention. Months in the making, they supply more answers and ask more questions than many people know. THE GRADES Many people count the letter grades and make a judgement...
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Demystify Your Child's Report Card
December signals the end of first term and the impending delivery of our child's report card. A report card is like a map of your child's educational journey and progress to date. It is also a good checkpoint to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Academic Issues of the High School Years
"There is no doubt that steering a teenager through the high school years can be a challenge. However, it is another of life's situations where the rewards for our efforts in these years, can pay...
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Plan B : High School - University
We all had tears in our eyes; the student, his father and me. It was such a relief; for all of us. Plan B. Nathan, the student, had taken a sudden left turn in Grade 11. He had skipped enough classes to...
