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Limiting Summer Slide by Strengthening Reading Habits at Home
With the school year coming to a close, we must now talk about summer and the ever-daunting ‘Summer Slide’ dilemma. If you haven’t heard the term before let me explain: Summer Slide is a teacher-speak for the academic regression that students encounter during the summer months when educational/academic focus shifts to the backseat. During the…
Live Like You Were Dying
There is that classic saying Dont take anything for granted because you never know what tomorrow holds . The other day I got an email from an old friend that I havent spoken to in years. He told me that he had an accident; he was walking across the street in London and got hit by a bus. He has been in and out of a coma, broke 50 + bones and now has some brain damage.
Bullying: Is It Your Fault?
Did you see fourteen year old Phoebe Prince on the cover of PEOPLE magazine several times? She’s the 15-year-old teen that committed suicide after being bullied at her school. Now, many of the administrators at the school are resigning, because they are being blamed for her death. Is it the school’s fault?
Depressed? Please Make Yourself A Priority
Plenty of moms deal with being depressed, and I’m one of them. I had postpartum Depression after the birth of my son and as I was battling cancer that was diagnosed with while pregnant with him.
Autism and Learning a Foreign Language
Big time advice coming… A few times, when my son with autism was younger, I said to myself, “I should really get him into some kind of foreign language instruction soon.” But, I never followed through. Now, my son has just started high school and is finally taking a foreign language, Spanish. I wish he…