This collection of articles contains information and suggestions for to help your child become more successful at school.
Focus on realistic strategies, goals, and rewards that can help get the job done.
Suggestions to make homework easier for both parents and students.
These last-minute, test-prep tips and strategies will help your child relax for the big test.
This activity requires your child to do some independent, interpretive thinking. It also encourages creativity.
Reading Tip Sheets for parents of preschoolers through third grade. Available in eleven languages.
Standardized Tests: Learn the Basics!
Answers to parents' top six questions about tests.
Take a Walk in a Character's Shoes
This activity requires that your child place himself in a TV character's position.
Ten Ways to Help Your Kids Get Organize
Use these tips to help your kids become more organized.
This critical-thinking activity encourages your child to think about certain patterns that can be found while watching a weekly half-hour or hour-long TV program.
Watching television with your kids is a great way to start preparing them for a standardized test.
Communication and Coping Tips for Students with LD
Great tips for kids to use at school and home.
How you can help your child with dyslexia.
Five Strategies to Support Your Child with LD
Five of the most important things parents can do if their child has a learning disability.
Learning Disabilities and Your Child: The Early Years
A guide to Learning Disabilities for you and your child.
10 Quick Questions and Answers about Learning Disabilities
Find out about learning disabilities and how they affect your child.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD)
The characteristics of ADD evident 40 years ago are still the same seen today. It is our understanding of ADD/ADHD that has evolved.
Professionals who diagnose ADHD use the diagnostic criteria set forth by the American Psychiatric Association (1994) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Do kids with ADHD need special education services?
Have a discipline problem that needs a fresh approach? Learn when, how, and why this technique works!
Kids and Inappropriate Behavior
Mortified by your child's behavior? Find out why kids "say the darndest things," and how you should react when it happens.
Logical Consequences: Discipline That Works!
Here's a discipline technique that will save you time and frustration. Learn when, how, and why it works!
Has "Everyone else is doing it!" become your preteen's battle cry? Here are the words you need to set limits you both can live with.
Talking with Kids About Their Day
Get the scoop on school from your child. Here are the tips you need to get more than a one-word answer.
The Time Out: Discipline That Works!
Learn when to use this discipline technique, how it works, and why. Even if you haven't had success with it lately, our expert tips can make a time out, time well spent.
