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Setting Goals with Physical Activity

colleen — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:23:34 +0000

Are you looking for a way to get your child motivated when it comes to exercise? It's difficult to keep track of your child's physical activity—or lack of it—as he gets older. One of the health content standards for middle school students is to make a personal plan to improve each child's nutrition and incorporate physical [...]

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P3 Back-to-School Homework Meltdowns and How to Overcome Them

colleen — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:00:48 +0000

This week we discuss what to do if you do not know how to help your child with the subject matter causing stress. For example, with math, you may be a math wiz but your child's school is teaching math a totally different way than how you learned math. To add to this complexity, your [...]

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Back-to-School Homework Meltdowns and How to Overcome Them

colleen — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:00:21 +0000

Well, it is almost back-to-school for our children. Some schools will be opening doors in August across our country. Others will start after Labor Day. The one thing they all have in common is homework. For those students who do get homework, this can be the most stressful time of the day. For families dealing [...]

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What To Do If Your Child’s Teacher Suggests ADHD

colleen — Sat, 29 May 2010 23:04:51 +0000

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Colleen Bain, M.A. Awarded Industry Expert for 2010 by Who’s Who of Cambridge

colleen — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:33:56 +0000

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Stop Committing Children to Virtual Wheelchairs – by Roger Stark

colleen — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:06:28 +0000

For the first time since 2003, 4th graders failed to make any progress in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Why improvement before and none since? The push with NCLB (No Child Left Behind) raised the concept of accountability, measuring and providing consequences for not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress. What this suggests [...]

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Activities – Paperless Tic Tac Toe – Strengthen Cognitive Skills

colleen — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:00:00 +0000

Paperless Tic-Tac-Toe:Take the classic game of tick-tac-toe and assign each box a number. Have your child visualize this grid in her mind and call off the box number in which she wants to place her mark. Also, try playing tic-tac-toe by drawing the grid in the air and pointing to the box you want [...]

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Transforming your Child through a System Part 2

colleen — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:00:01 +0000

In part one of this series we talked about how you shouldn’t focus on strong skills. I know that sounds strange, right? Everywhere you go today, you are taught to find your child's strong skills and focus on them. However, brain trainer's do quite the opposite. We focus on the weaker skills since those are [...]

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BrainWare Safari — Single User

colleen — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:00:07 +0000

BrainWare Safari is an award-winning software program incorporating decades of proven clinical cognitive skill development techniques into an engaging video-game format. Why I LOVE this product: I have had used this product by itself as a complete brain training program and also as a complimentary piece within a full brain training program. In both scenarios, the [...]

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How to Transform Your Child into an Independent Learner – Part 1

colleen — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:00:39 +0000

Using a system to help your child will work if you identify the current level of cognitive learning skills. You need to create an action plan that will target the weak skills and strengthen them. You shouldn’t focus on the strong skills. They’re already strong, so you need to focus on the weak ones so [...]

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