P2 Back-to-School Homework Meltdowns and How to Overcome Them

Last week I gave you some ideas for those families in crisis mode with dealing with homework meltdowns.  The number one takeaway from last week to manage crisis situations is to get your child's emotions back down and under control.  Your child most likely will not be able to tell why they cannot do their [...]

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

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 [...]

Activities – Build Writing Muscles with a Water Relay

Does your child have trouble holding a pencil? Is writing his name an excruciating task?  For many young writers, it is. While your first instinct may be to have him practice writing more letters, weak muscles are often the cause of the problem. There are lots of fun ways to help kids build up muscle control, [...]

Stop Committing Children to Virtual Wheelchairs – by Roger Stark

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 [...]

Transforming your Child through a System Part 2

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

How to Navigate and Prevent Homework Meltdowns

Here we go again – is what most parents are saying as the new school begins.  Do you dread the time your child gets ready for homework?  If you said yes, you are not alone.  Most parents wish their child did their homework before they got home.  This article will give you some basic How-to's [...]

  Attention Moms:   Imagine, for a moment, that it's 3 months from today…. You  are looking at your child who is able to do homework easier and more independently, doing well in school and overall happy with life.   What would this be worth to you? "STOP struggling with tutors, endless meetings with teachers and homework [...]

BrainWare Safari Research

From BrainWare: Several studies have been completed using BrainWare Safari in different settings to demonstrate its effectiveness.   Each study or case-study was performed using evaluation methods that were suitable for the setting, some were evidence-based and some were case studies.  In each study, the recommended use of BrainWare Safari was 30 to 60 minutes, 3 [...]

How to Organize Your Child’s Notebook

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