Education & Learning |
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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...
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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...
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Surviving the High School Years
Do you suppose that the reason we dread the high school years often has something to do with our own memories of high school? It was supposed to be the "best time of our life", but many of us...
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Prep School Hockey
If your child is involved in competitive minor hockey and is a good student, a prep school hockey is something you should consider. Given the fact that hockey players are forced to make decisions about their...
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When is a child too sick to go to school?
DEAR DR.PAUL: I have a question that seems simple, but I feel is an important one. How do you know when your child is too sick to go to school...
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The Benefits of Boarding School
A recent independent survey has confirmed that students who were educated in independent day and boarding schools are more prepared for post-secondary study and achieve greater career progress than students...
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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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Secondary School
It Will Probably Be OK Most kids who are successful in grade school are the same in high school. Most make the transition just fine. But, the transition is a vulnerable time and requires heightened...
