Well, school has started and about now the “Honeymoon” is over. Assignments start to pile up and those homework battles may be starting up, too. “Homework time” can be very stressful and tension-filled for both child and parent, but research clearly says that doing homework enhances not only a child’s learning but also teaches essential [...]

I’ve had so many requests from workshop participants asking how to start a Adopt-A-Student program I decided to include them here. There are no right or wrong ways to implement the program as long as the goal is to create genuine relationships with students you deem are more “at risk.” Here are the basics:
1..Introduce the [...]

A horrific number of incidents have taken place in schools over the past two weeks: A Montreal school shooting, a 15 year old Wisconsin boy shooting his principal, Colorado girls held hostage molested and then shot in their high school, and six to thirteen year old girls bound and shot execution-style in an Amish [...]

In 1998 the US Department of Education developed “Early Warning Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools.” The guide was sent to every school as a means to help prevent violence. Here are those warning signs I reported today while appearing on the Good Life Show with Jesse Dylan that children may be at risk [...]

Have you noticed how apologizing has become almost a lost art these days? A great number of adults lately (not kids!) seem to have forgotten how–from government officials to movie stars to plagarizing authors to poor-sport athletes. How are kids going to learn this great skill unless we model it ourselves?
That’s why I adore Trudy [...]