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Back To School Planning

  • Tutoring- better to get started right away?

    While tutoring may generally be looked at as a way to get a child that has fallen behind in class work up to speed with the class, being proactive and using a tutor to help a young student process and better understand the learning process can be a very useful tool. (…)

  • Teaching your child to deal with bullies

    Bullies are an unfortunate part of life that we wish our children could avoid. Unfortunately that's not always possible and so we have to prepare them for how to handle things instead. (…)

  • Summer Reading

    Keeping kids interested in books is getting easier with J.K. (…)

  • School supplies and where to get them

    Growing up, my grandmother taught me a very valuable lesson when it came to school supplies. (…)

  • School Shopping on a bargain budget

    It's that time of year when everyone rushes to the stores looking for the best deals for their money and trying to stretch their budgets to get the most items. (…)

  • Riding the bus or driving your child to school which is better?

    As summer draws to a close and the time to buckle down and start school approaches one of the things that we need to start thinking about is how we're going to get our children to school. (…)

  • Preparing for extracurricular activities

    With the beginning of the school year comes not only the rush to prepare not only for school but also for all of those extra activities that come with the school year. (…)

  • Planning schedules around rising gas prices

    One of the biggest problems that we face today is the rising gas prices and how they affect our ability to get around. (…)

  • Organizing Your Workspace

    One of the most important things for a student to have is their own devoted workspace; an environment where they can go and write or study without too much interruption. (…)

  • Making the transition from summer into the new school year

    As school time rolls around and we get ready for school to start there can be some rough times as we prepare our children to start their new schedules. (…)

  • Internet Safety

    The internet has become a great resource for children doing school work but at the same time there's a wide world of danger that lurks online. (…)

  • How to shop for clothing with a teen

    As our children grow older and move from pre-teen into teen it becomes harder and harder to keep up with the trends in teen fashion. (…)

  • How to get kids out the door quicker in the morning

    Morning is the most hectic time of the day for most families. There's always a rush to get everyone out the door on time with the things that they need to start the day. (…)

  • How to buy a computer

    Buying a computer can be a very stressful and expensive endeavor, computer technology improves at an astoundingly fast rate making a new computer seem obsolete within months. (…)

  • Helping your child pick the best extracurricular activities

    With the wide variety of extracurricular activities available at most school what's the best way to pick which ones for your child to participate in? (…)

  • Current preteen and younger fashion trends

    If you think clothes shopping for a teen is hard it becomes even hard when shopping for a preteen or younger child. (…)

  • Electronics trends for children and teens

    I remember when I was young and the first Nintendo system came out. We were so excited but had no idea that it was just the beginning of a long trend that would get more and more advanced. (…)

  • Eating Healthy with kids

    One of the hardest things to do as a parent is to make sure that our children are eating healthy. (…)

  • Doing School Work on the Computer

    While the increased usage of computers in our daily lives has possibly created a more productive overall use of our time, it has also introduced us to forms of entertainment that can quickly consume great amounts of time and attention. (…)

  • Current trends in teen fashion for boys

    The world of fashion is a bewildering place and even more so when you are the parent of a teen. The clothing that they wear is sometimes a bit bewildering and hard for a parent to understand. (…)