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Accommodating Learning with Disabilities

Is your child uninterested in a school subject, or is he or she learning with disabilities? Your judgment as a parent is your best guide—and testing for learning disabilities is often a good option.

Learning with Disabilities: ADHD

If you think your child may have ADHD or has been diagnosed with the disorder, it is essential for you to read as much as you can about treatment options, learning with disabilities, and parenting strategies.

Teaching Character Means Safer Schools, Caring Kids

Character-education helps to teach values and improve kids' manners. Many schools have started character-education programs and have been successful in teaching character to kids.

Resources for Teaching Character in Kids

Teaching character to kids at school has become common practice. It involves teaching kids manners at school and at home. Many resources are highlighted throughout the article.

Center-based Tutoring Can Improve Kids' Grades and Challenge Young Minds

Elementary tutoring can help improve your child's grades in school. Center-based tutoring tests students on their individual knowledge -- not their age or school grade.

Parent Involvement in Education Helps to Meet Differentiated Learning Needs

Parent involvement in education is crucial for children whose needs are outside the norm. Good parent-teacher communication can promote differentiated learning for all learning types.

A Bee in My Head

Read this poem about the joy that a mother feels in being the first and only person a child wants to share his most treasured experiences with.

Family Ideas: A New Way To Help Kids Take Responsibility

Rich Schalter applies business smarts to parenting. He encourages kids to develop their own "brand" and take more personal responsibility. Learn family ideas to help your kids do the same.

10 Commandments of Reading for Parents

How can you make your child fall in love with books? Follow these rules.

Infant Activities: A New Dad's Thoughts on Regrets

Make every moment you spend with your baby count. According to this new dad, you'll never, ever regret the time you spend doing fun infant activities as well as mundane—or even distasteful—tasks.

Parent Involvement in Education: A National Art Program You Can Bring to Your Child's School

Want more art in your child's school? Here's a free program! Parent involvement in education can include the Reflections annual PTA program, which cultivates students’ creative artistic abilities.

A Menu for Success: One Michigan School District's Path to Personal Health and Wellness

More and more kids are overweight and obese these days, putting child fitness and personal health and wellness at risk. Here are some actions you can take to fight this epidemic at your school.

Toys for Your Child's Development Stage

A good toy is safe, durable, and suited to your child’s age, stage of development, personality, and interests.

A Little Career Job Training Awareness Might Help

Success comes when students are passionate about learning. Linda Wacyk shares her family's story and offers career job training advice that would have saved her brother and parents a lot of grief.

Public School Policy: Your School Board's Agenda

Those monthly meetings make a difference for your school. Here, a summary of how school boards operate.

Choosing a School that Will Provide for All Child Development Stages

There are several factors to take into account when choosing the most desirable school for your child. Follow these guidelines to help assess what exactly is the best one.

Family Ideas for Grandparenting at a Distance

When grandparents are far away, it takes creativity to come up with fun family activities to keep close to the grandkids. Here are some family ideas that can help.

Children of Special Needs Deserve Special Grandparents

Children of special needs deserve special grandparents. Here's the story of one grandma and her cherished grandson, Eric.

Provide Positive Support for Parents' Discipline

When grandparents care for their grandchildren, they may be tempted to be all fun and games. But it's better for kids if grandparents support the parents' discipline.

Parent Involvement in Education Begins with Choosing the Right School

Choosing the best school for your child is the first step in parent involvement in education. Your child's personality, family values, and education priorities are all part of school choice.

What is ADD? One Family's Story

What is ADD? When one family searched for answers to their son's school and social difficulties, they learned much about ADD symptoms, ADD testing, and ADD treatment.

Understanding Kids' Grades: Does “D” Mean Dummy?

When your child brings home a "D," parent teacher communication and taking the time to find out what signals a test score is sending will help in understanding kids' grades.

A Coach's Letter to Parents: Make Sure Sports Are Fun Family Activities

In children's sports, your role as a parent is just as important as the coach's role. This article suggests ways you can work with your coach to make sure that sports are fun family activities for your child.

What Is Dyslexia? A Journey into the World of Learning Disabilities

What is dyslexia? You may not know your child has this nonverbal learning disability. If your child is struggling to learn to read and write, have him or her tested. Then try these learning techniques.

Why Reading Tutoring May Not Be the Answer

Sometimes when tutoring children, we may see no improvement, but that doesn't mean they can't be helped. Reading tutoring may not be the answer, there may be disabilities involved.

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