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On a flight home from Michigan last year, Leslie Pereira and her son Ben were watching Spellbound, a documentary about eight competitors in the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee. The film inspired...
Sandra Zerner, M. Ed., has an inspiring book for kids to develop a healthy sense of self and learn that bullying and being mean or bad is not cool. There are real-life experiences as well as...
The controversial importance of test scores in public schools has been brought to the forefront of the news, as CNN reported a shocking cheating crisis — not by students this time...
With so much research supporting inborn temperament, the days of believing children are born as "blank slates" are long gone. Yet parents still struggle with the underlying belief that our...
Hospitals can be scary and overwhelming for kids, and Hospital Critterz (www.hospitalcritterz.com) a new series of hospital-based adventure books, helps children to see the medical world...
Knowing whether someone you love has a problem with alcohol or drugs isn't as straightforward as it sounds. Despite the stereotypes of the staggering drunk or the emaciated addict, most...
Giving kids an allowance is a time honored tradition as old as, well, having them make their beds or set the dinner table. But it turns out that for many of today's families, the ritual...
All parents can recall times when they said or did something they regretted in the course of disciplining a child: yelling too loud, spanking too hard, making threats they didn't follow through...
Everyone knows that we all learn, work and play better after a good night's sleep, and this is particularly important for children in school. There is, however, a difference between knowing what you...
Dr. Bill Page would rather teach than do just about anything else any day of the week. "During my career I was an educator and administrator in elementary, middle and high schools, as well...
