Warm Weather and its Wonderful changes: Warm weather definitely brings many changes. It is not hard to spot these changes at home or in the classroom. Children and students are itching to go outside to play and enjoy the sunshine. They seem to have a hard time sitting and concentrating. A true case of spring…
Be the Best You Can Be!
Hey, are you the best you can be? Are you giving your job your all? Do you love going to work? Do you have satisfaction from your job? Why not? Why don’t you feel that you are doing and being the best you can be? I think it is because many of us are stressed…
News for Kids
Want your children to be in the know? Let them know the news! News for kids: Now that can be tricky, you want children to be enlightened about the on goings in the world however too enlightened can be a problem. You do not want children to read or hear about things that their…
Self Care is important!
What is Self Care? I know you know and you know, you know that you got to take care of yourself. But really? Yes, really! If you do not take care of yourself, who will? Anyone who is working with other people has the responsibility to take care of themselves. You can make or ruin…
5 great activities for the sensory child:
At home activities to do with your sensory child or any bored child: Before we begin some of you must be wondering- Hey, what does sensory even mean? Is there even something called a sensory child? Aren’t all children sensory? Well here goes: A child seeking or withdrawing from sensory input is called a sensory…
We all want to be a good parent or do we?
What does it take to be a good parent? What does it mean to be a good parent? We all want to be a good parent or at least we try or think we are one. Being a good parent means something else for everyone. For some being a good parent is giving your children…
How to Teach Children to Take Initiative: The Skill That Changes Everything at Home and at School
Parenting Tips · Raising Confident Kids · From the Classroom How to Teach Children to Take Initiative: The Skill That Changes Everything at Home and at School By A Mom and a Job · 8 min read In this article: The pregnant mom who could not bend and what her children did about…
Is it OK to lie to children?
Can we live at peace with ourselves when we lie to our children? I feel the question is loaded and deserves a loaded answer. Though all I will simply say – it depends. Yes, it really depends! When asking others when and for what reason they will lie to their kids the answers will vary….
Managing Children’s Behavior
How to Manage Children’s Behavior: Children need consistency, rules and routines to flourish. In short, all they need is a stable environment. It sounds simple, it might be simple however it takes some work to establish that. Let us take a look at the framework for a stable environment whether it is a classroom or…
Special Education – is it us or them?
Are we labeling children for nothing? I was just by a special education training session this morning. It was intriguing to hear the presenter’s frustration at how we often label a child as needy, disabled, ADHD, weak etc. without fully understanding the wide range of developmental stages that there are for each age group. How…
