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Create A Daytime Academic Schedule For Kids Stuck At Home Right Now
As schools around the world close and parents scramble to either work from home or find child care, it can be easy to view this as one big, long holiday. Prop ‘em in front of the TV with some snacks and ride it out. But experts agree that the best thing parents can do for…
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Get Your Kid Talking About Their Day With This Question
It’s the refrain heard round the world every afternoon or early evening. Parents everywhere are asking, “How was school?” And their children are responding, “Fine,” much more concerned with procuring a snack and a good TV show than chatting about their day.
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Should You Opt Your Child Out Of Homework?
Our kids have really long days. By sheer scheduling necessity, they’re often at school before we’re at work and they’re still there while we rush home to pick them up. Then they’ve got basketball practice or piano lessons. They’ve got to eat, they’ve got to get at least semi-clean before bed, they’ve got to actually…
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Everything You Need To Survive Back-to-School Season
My son starts third grade next week, and this is the first year where instead of being all, “Yay for friends and learning!” he’s more like, “yeah, school, great.” I can understand how he feels. He’s got nine months of work ahead of him and dude would rather watch reruns of Pokémon.