With kids doing so much of their learning at home during the COVID-19 outbreak, it becomes very important to make sure that their personal study area in the home is especially conducive to study and concentration. Here are five tips for putting together an optimal learning environment for your teen (or child). Naturally, there are...Read More
Homeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic is difficult enough for many parents, but some have the additional responsibility of helping their ADHD-diagnosed kids with schoolwork. Here are some tips to help you along: Let Your Child Fidget. Researchers now say that fidgeting actually helps ADHD-identified kids focus better. One resource that can help with this (so...Read More
One of the most important things that homeschooling parents can share with their kids is to teach them about how they learn best. You can always teach them individual things (spelling, math concepts, reading skills), but if you teach them about their own personal style of learning, you give them a gift that they will...Read More
Homework is considered to be part of the natural order of things in school. But in the past twenty years or so there’s been an increasing amount of criticism about its function and use (see for example, Alfie Kohn’s The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing). I too believe...Read More
Educator and media critic Neil Postman once remarked that: ”children enter school as question marks and leave school as periods.” In other words, kindergarteners and first graders are full of enthusiasm, raise their hands high when asked a question, and respond favorably to new learning activities, but by high school, the zip is gone and...Read More
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