We took our two young kids to see Avatar this past Saturday. Having cried her eyes out over Titanic, the other James Cameron movie, I was glad to hear our 12-year old daughter commenting “that was a fun movie!”. Our 8-year old, however, did not weather it well. First he refused to cry when the [...]
Say you have a child who has lost interest in school and refuses to do his homework. (Nightmare for parents, I know). By posing the question “help me understand why you choose to ignore your homework assignments” gives you, the parent, a much better footing then asking “why do you choose not to finish your [...]
Having a strong math foundation is the surest way to prevent math struggle. Just how do parents go about building that strong math foundation? The rule of thumb is subtract your child’s age from 21 and that’s close to the weekly # of hours a parent ought to use on building the math foundation at [...]