It’s the beginning of summer: you and your child are starting to enjoy the break. You’re relaxing school-year routines. You’re having fun! You can't help but be heedful of the need to keep little brains active and learning in the summer. You plan on encouraging him to keep up his reading, writing, math, and vocabulary skills with creative and fun activities.
We are fast approaching the time of the year that high school students choose next year’s classes. A common question is whether to register for the more rigorous Advanced Placement (AP) courses. The successful completion of AP classes has benefits for both the college application process and college itself. The common mindset students often share is whether to pad their GPAs with easier classes or take a risk with an AP class. If your teachers agree that you are at the level of an AP course, we believe the answer is clear. Here are some reasons we believe challenging yourself is always the better choice.
Going back to school can be a hectic time, but if you establish routines and expectations for your child early on, he/she will begin to take responsibility for and ownership of his/her own education.
That means you can add studying for them to your already vast to-do list.
Here are some helpful hints on how to prepare for your exams and get everything else done.
Executive functioning, at its core, is simply a fancy way of labeling the way a brain organizes, accesses and harnesses information.
We often take these skills for granted, and as such, forget that they are skills that are learned. For instance, imagine watching a toddler quietly organizing his toy trucks in a line.
It’s the beginning of summer: you and your child are starting to enjoy the break. You’re relaxing school-year routines. You’re having fun! You can't help but be heedful of the need to keep little brains active and learning in the summer. You plan on encouraging him to keep up his reading, writing, math, and vocabulary skills with creative and fun activities.
It’s the beginning of summer. You and your child are starting to enjoy the season. You’re relaxing school-year routines. You’re having fun. You’re also heedful of the need to keep little brains active and learning in the summer. You plan on encouraging your student to keep up their reading, writing, math, and vocabulary skills with creative and fun activities.
It has been estimated that millions of children nationwide are affected by severe anxiety (Hill & Wigfield, 1984). The negative impact that anxiety can have on a student is serious. While a mild amount of anxiety can actually be considered motivating for a student, student's with excessive amounts of anxiety can interfere with one’s memory, which can make it difficult to perform on a test or perform in other ways (Huberty, 2009). Students with severe anxiety can lead them to a lack of motivation, a lowered self-esteem, consistent issues with academic performance and even early withdrawal of school (Cowden, 2014).
Anxiety as it relates to academic performance is of significant importance to me due to my own experience with severe anxiety through my high school, college and early post college years. While I discovered tools in my adult years to help me cope with anxiety, I believe school would not have been so challenging for me had I had the tools then! It is in this vain that I have devoted so much of my time to researching academic anxiety. In this blog post, I share with you research supported steps that will help reduce the anxiety children experience and thus perform better academically. Ready? Let’s get started.
Read MoreBeing organized is a great skill for your children to learn. It’s something that will stick with them for the rest of their lives, and let’s be honest, it’s something that can make your life just a little bit easier too.Teaching your children to be organized isn’t difficult. Here are 11 things you can do to get started right away.
Read MoreWe at The House understand the frustration that comes with watching your child struggle in school. With often overcrowded classrooms and increasingly difficult curriculum, it can be a struggle for students to keep up, much less excel. We would love to help!
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