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Helping Kids Sleep Better: The Overlooked Crucial Key to Grades and School Success

Posted: August 27th, 2012 by Michele Borba


American Academy of Sleep Medicine estimates that 1 in 3 kids are sleep-deprived School success impacts our children for the rest of their life: it influences their self-esteem, college selections, job attainment, financial success, and even their choice of spouses. It’s no wonder we go to such great lengths to try and give our kids an academic [...]



6 Week Parent Check-Up: 4 areas you can’t overlook in school success

Posted: October 11th, 2010 by Michele Borba


Four crucial–and sometimes overlooked–areas that affect learning and how to check them to see how your child is doing. Parenting advice and simple tips I shared this morning on the TODAY show to help your child have a more successful school year The honeymoon period is over and the school year is in full swing. [...]



Michele Borba: 6 Surprising Changes That May Help #ADHD Kids in School

Posted: August 4th, 2009 by Michele Borba


Michele Borba, Ed.D. REALITY CHECK  Reports say that Attention Deficit Disorder (or ADD) affects up to nine[ii] percent of school-age children, but even then the medical field fears that only half of those have been properly diagnosed. Parents currently spend[i] over one billion three hundred million each year on buying one of the three leading [...]