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The Ultimate Parent Guide to Understanding School Report Cards
Decode school report cards with this ultimate parent guide to understanding school report cards and supporting student success.
What Every Parent Needs to Understand About Marijuana and the Adolescent Brain
“Which is worse for you, alcohol or pot?” With the increasing trend toward legalizing marijuana, this is a question that is foremost in the minds of a lot of teens right now, and it is critical that parents and educators understand a few important things before they try to respond. Most responses miss the real […]
Understanding Men in Love
Understanding men is a challenge in and of itself, even though they claim we’re the complicated ones. A man in love is an even more complex being; so complex, in fact, that sometimes he may act like a woman. All those strange things he does make sense, somehow, if we can step back and look at him not as a man, primarily, but as a human in love, subject to emotion, passion, self-doubt, ecstasy and sappy poetry.
The One Thing I’ll Never Understand About My Son
When I was a kid, I pretty much loved school. Learning was fun for me, probably because it came easily and because I did well. I never broke the rules, I never got in trouble, I did what I was told, and I loved the praise and the positive feedback that I got from my teachers. My husband, too, was a similar kind of student. As adults, we relate to each other in terms of …
Children With Special Needs: Understanding Idioms
My autistic child is a very literal thinker. He is much more comfortable with the concrete; numbers, exact measurements, details about preferred topics, and proper names of things. Numbers are especially satisfying to him. He is confident with the concrete.