DianaE2025-11-04T23:04:49+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, Parent Advice, Study Habits
Dear Parents,As you’re going through your child’s school work, do you notice the margins of their notes are filled with doodles? Drawings, phases, shapes, squiggly lines that lead to nowhere? Before you jump on your child about needing to spend more time focusing on the lesson and less ..
DianaE2025-11-06T21:39:59+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, Motivation & Interest, Parent Advice, Senior & High School Learning
Millions of teens around the world find excitement and pride in landing their first after-school job. Whether it is as a lifeguard at a community pool, scooping ice cream in the local ice cream shop, or folding clothes at their favorite boutique, having a job is a great ..
DianaE2025-11-08T02:07:39+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, Motivation & Interest, Parent Advice
Some middle school students go through a weird phase in which they seem like they are eating their parents out of house and home. Growing teenagers seem to have an insatiable appetite, and can be found in the kitchen more often than not.If this sounds like your middle ..
DianaE2025-11-06T06:59:23+11:00Posted in Motivation & Interest, Parent Advice, Primary School Learning
If you have a son, more than likely you’ve had enough robots, pirates, dinosaurs, and trucks to last you a lifetime. Lucky for you, we’ve put together a list of even more activities that boys will love and that will foster their love and understanding for everything math-related! ..
DianaE2025-11-06T06:35:50+11:00Posted in Parent Advice, Remembering Stuff
Your brain, just like your heart, lungs, or biceps, is a muscle and becomes stronger when it is used regularly. You may be familiar with exercises that strengthen your biceps, or workouts that keep your heart strong, but you may not be as familiar with tips and ..
DianaE2025-11-06T06:43:35+11:00Posted in Parent Advice, Starting Tutoring
Many parents struggle with knowing how to help their children who are having a hard time with math. If the parents are not math aficionados, helping their children with high-level math can cause stress in the relationship and end up doing more harm than good. Parents who love ..
DianaE2025-11-07T19:37:04+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, Parent Advice
Carol had tried everything when it came to helping her middle school daughter Claire understand her math homework. As if teenage girls and their moms don’t have enough to butt heads about, trying to figure out the math homework became a nightly battle, and nobody was winning.In a ..
DianaE2025-11-05T22:58:25+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, Remembering Stuff, Study Habits
There is a fascinating graphic floating around the Internet that really puts the importance of nightly reading into perspective:It explains that students who read for 20 minutes a day will come in contact with over 1,800,000 words by the end of the school year. A student who reads ..
DianaE2025-11-07T23:45:15+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, Concentration & Focus, Parent Advice
What is Dyscalculia?Many people are familiar with learning disabilities that make it hard for a child to read, comprehend what they are reading, or write. These disabilities make it a struggle for kids to process the letters and words that make up the content they are reading. ..
DianaE2025-11-07T20:33:22+11:00Posted in Motivation & Interest, Primary School Learning, Structuring Lessons
Children First, Students SecondIt is important for parents, teachers, and tutors to remember that **before students are students, they are children**. And children are built to play. They learn through playing from the time they are very small, and continue to grow mentally, emotionally, and physically when ..
