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7 Things a Son Needs from His Father.

By: Joe Matten. There’s nothing like the father-son relationship. As a boy grows up, there will be many people who influence him and his development into adulthood. As a father, you are, and should be, his most important role model. He needs you. Tomorrow we’ll cover the 7 things a daughter needs from her dad. However, today here are 7 things a son needs from his father. 1. He needs you to love his mother. When you love your wife, or the mother of your son, you are showing him how to treat his mother, his sisters, and all the women he’ll meet in his life. This will set the foundation for the relationships he will have later in his life. If you are divorced and the relationship is difficult, do what you can to treat his mother with respect. 2. He needs to see you fail, not just succeed. “The best teacher is failure. The best type of failure to learn from is someone else’s.” The best teacher is failure. The best type of failure to learn from is someone else’s. When your s
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7 Top Quality Math Websites For Kids, That Are Packed With Free Online Games And Activities.

There are so many math websites for kids, it’s hard to tell which sites are high-quality ones that will help kids learn. These websites also have  resources to help kids conquer math skills and facts! This list of math websites for kids will help you find free online games for kids to play, as well as resources to help you teach them important skills! When looking for math websites and resources to use with kids, it is important that they offer something high-quality and equally as effective as your own teaching. Here you will find just that! The included websites have free games for students to play, giving them an interactive and hands-on approach to practicing math skills they need to learn. You’ll also find websites that have fantastic teacher resources so that you can better plan and carry out your math lessons. Math Website for Kids: 1.Fun Brain Math Zone- The Math Zone on Fun Brain is filled with fantastic games kids will love. They can play Connect the Dots
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Parenting During Coronavirus: Dear Parents, You Are Enough.

By: Rebecca Parlakian. When I called a friend to tell her how I was failing at enrichment activities for the kids recently — there’s been lots of screen time and maybe some stress eating — she interrupted me and said: You are enough. I’m grateful for all the guidance on daily learning schedules, at-home science experiments, parent-led learning activities and online tours of the world’s museums. I love all those resources, really. But if I’m honest, they are also seriously stressing me out. The expectations for being “perfect” during quarantine can add up. The best thing we can do right now is give ourselves what our friends offer us so willingly — the reminder that we are enough. That means you’re allowed to go a full day without a STEM experiment. You get to skip sentences while reading (super long) children’s books. You can hide the finger paint or tell your child that it dried up. You’re also allowed to go easy on the rules. Have a picnic on the living room floor. Let th
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Tips to Make Things Normal for Your Children Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic.

By: Bakshi Sidhu. With the COVID-19 pandemic, parents all over the world are worried. Although the gravity of the pandemic varies in different countries, there are still a significant number of families who are faced with the problem of disruption. One of the most hurtful disruptions caused by this pandemic is the change in the normal routine of our children. Some kids are forced to go out of school because schools are closing. Even social interactions like playdates with friends are stopped because of fear that kids might catch the virus. So how do we deal with these kinds of disruption in our children’s lives? What can we do to help them still live a normal life? Here are some tips to help our children live normal lives despite the pandemic: 1. Do not panic and set an example of how to deal with COVID-19 crises. This is not the first crisis that your children will ever encounter. Set the right example. Do not show them that panicking is the best response to crises. Ne
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Shocking Discovery of how technology impacts your child & what you can do.

By: Sharon Harding. Have you ever wondered how screens truly impact your child? I went looking for answers in recent scientific studies. Click through to read what I discovered about the effects of technology on our children’s brains and learn how to find a healthy balance (includes free info sheet and helpful tools). I have a confession. I’m not going to make it easy for you. This could be a hard post to read.It sure as heck was a difficult one to write. I’ve procrastinated for months. But here’s the thing. I simply can’t stay quiet any longer. It all started when I read Hey Internet- Let’s Have An Honest Talk About Screens This Summer by Kristen Welch. This powerful post touches on the sorrow of screen addiction in children, the need to regulate screen use, and the struggle for families to find a balance. It is well worth the read! And it got me wondering: What are the effects of technology on our kids? I looked at some of the studies and research.What did I find? T
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19 Important Questions To ask Your Child's School Administrator & Head-Teacher.

    What academic standards do you use, and what do I need to know about them?     How will you respond if or when my child struggles in class?     What are the most important and complex (content-related) ideas my child needs to understand by the end of the year?     Do you focus on strengths or weaknesses?     How are creativity and innovative thinking used on a daily basis in your classroom?     How is critical thinking used on a daily basis in your classroom?     How are assessments designed to promote learning rather than simple measurement?     What can I do to support literacy in my home?     What kinds of questions do you suggest that I ask my children on a daily basis about your classes?     How exactly is learning personalized in your classroom? In the school?     How do you measure academic progress apart from the standardized testing?     What are the most common instructional or literacy strategies you will use this year?     What learning model
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7 Ways to Protect Your Children, If Marital Conflict Arises at Home.

By: Athena Staik, Ph.D.  A parent’s nurturing presence provides the emotional connection that not only helps strengthen the parent-child relationship, but also teaches the child how to regulate his or her emotions. Since conflict between parents is inevitable, it’s important to note a few rules parents can use to protect their children from marital issues. If you want your children to be confident, stand up for and respect themselves, they need to learn how to ask to be treated with dignity and respect, and to learn to respect themselves, and to do so in the context of the family they grow up in the formative years of their lives  Respect here does not mean obedience, it means mutual and unconditional respect for self and other as human beings. In other words, if your children had the cognitive and affective development of an adult (and they won’t until they’re about 25 years of age), and they wrote you a letter, they would say something like the following: Dear parents,
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