Seven items parents should check on now to improve kid’s learning success mid-year. That crucial second school semester is in full bloom. Mid-year is when parents alike have a good idea about how their kids are doing in school – which subjects are hard or easy and how they like their teachers. This is also [...]

Of course we worry about our kids. It’s only natural to do so. We love our children more than life itself and want them to be happy and successful, and when they aren’t it hurts. When we see our kids struggle, have trouble fitting in, or recognize that they are somehow noticeably “different” from their [...]

Parenting tips to help kids recognize a key to success: “Learn from your failures.” Our first step is erasing the belief: “Mistakes are bad!” Do you want your child to succeed? (And what parent doesn’t.) Then know this: kids cannot learn to persevere, unless they recognize how to deal with failure. Mistakes can be a [...]

Parenting tips I shared on TODAY for kids who procrastinate, dawdle, cut corners or just take the easy way. It’s the makeover no parent should put off! Sound like  your kid? “I don’t care!  I quit – this is too hard.”  “Why don’t YOU do it?” Is his backpack a disaster, homework always a battle and everything [...]

The right questions and what to do to boost your child’s learning success. Parenting tips I shared on TODAY show. If you’ve just received a memo from your child’s school that your parent-teacher conference has been scheduled, you’re not alone. Over the next weeks millions of parents will be walking into those classrooms to sit [...]