Boredom Busters, Parenting Tips and Honest Advice for Moms Who Do It All
Tantrums are never fun, no one likes them or wants to deal with them. Learn how to stop tantrums before they can even think of taking place. The start of the tantrum: Lolly went to the store with her mother, as they were walking down the aisle she spotted a candy bar that seemed to…
Parenting Tips · Raising Confident Kids · From the Classroom The Skills Every Child Needs to Succeed That Nobody Teaches Them Until It Is Almost Too Late By A Mom and a Job · 8 min read In this article: How my daughter walked into a camp interview and got the spot before anyone else…
Things to say everyday to your children: We say a lot of things to our children everyday we tell them what to do, where to go and when to clean up. It is time to make the things we say memorable and lasting. Remember when a teacher or parent told you something and you got…
How to get things done: We all want to squeeze the most we can from our day, however we all just got the same 24 hours. How is it that some people can accomplish the world in one day while others are simply floundering? We got to prioritize our time! What does that mean? People…
Parenting Tips · From the Classroom · Emotional Intelligence How to Calm a Crying Child Without Losing Your Mind in the Process By A Mom and a Job · 9 min read In this article: The moment I yelled stop and my daughter asked “do you need help finding it?” Why each…
Is it alive? Can it move? Want to be that successful teacher whom everyone admires and all the students love? Want to know what the favorite teacher trick is? You need to make your students excited to come to class to learn. Simple as that, you need to capture their interest. Capturing children’s interest is…
On the hard days I become an instruction machine. Clean that up. Did you do your homework. Put that away. One evening my daughter looked at me and said: Mommy, you are not listening to me. She was right.
Why teaching children to talk is so important: Did you talk to your child/ student today? The real talk, not the hi- how are you speech? Communication builds relationships! Yup, by simply talking to your child you are building your relationship with him/her. We communicate to connect with others, (whether it is verbal or non…
One of my children started flossing every night without being asked and without a chart. That is the difference between internal and external motivation and it changes everything about how we approach learning.
What is your first response to your child’s behavior? “You just spilled on the clean floor!” Whoa, wait a second, was that you yelling? It could have just about been any frustrated mom, dad or teacher! Unfortunately, our initial response is usually the first emotion we feel when children did something we do not like….