How to Communicate with Your Child’s Teacher
As you advocate for your child, you'll want to know how to communicate with your child's teacher.
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How to Create a Stress Free Morning School Routine
School mornings can be so stressful! Here's some tips that will help you to create a stress free morning school routine.
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What Your Child Needs to Succeed
As the school year gets underway, what your child needs to succeed is surprisingly simple.
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The Power of Positive Parenting
When I was a young Mom and just had my second child, I complained to my friend, “I was barely able to deal with one, I can’t handle a second one!” She was very upset with me. She said, “That’s just your head trash! Yes, you can handle two kids. The more you tell yourself […]
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How to Help Your Kids Thrive in School
Take My Brand New Class! Simple Ways To Help Your Kids Thrive In School Here are 2 more ways that we can use empathy to give the reassurance and support, that these struggling learners so desperately...
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8 Ways To Help Your Strong Willed Child
Stop the power struggles...help your strong willed child manage his feelings.
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7 Ways to Help Your Struggling Child
Many times children will perform well in school and then slowly parents will notice a drop off in their grades. Learn how to help your struggling child!
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How to Help Your Kids Make Good Choices
Learn how to help your kids make good choices..to think carefully before acting. Grab the worksheet for easy reference!
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One Simple Way To Create A Loving Home
Everyone wants to feel loved and appreciated. It is a basic human need. As parents, we want to meet that need in our children and our spouses. As with almost anything in life, sometimes the smallest things can make the biggest difference. One simple way to show our love and appreciation to our children and […]
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Good Parenting: Teaching Children Kindness and Responsibility
This past week, I spoke for a Jewish organization, here in our neighborhood. We discussed simple ways that we can teach children to be kind and responsible towards other. The basic premise was this: If we act kindly and responsibly towards others, so will our kids. We need to change ourselves, make ourselves better so […]
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8 Tips for a Less Stressful Family Vacation
We all look forward to the summer and hopefully that means that we are also taking a family vacations. We think that it’s the time that we will bond, laugh and make happy memories. Many times we have very high expectations. Everyone will get along. Everyone will appreciate all the hard work that we put […]
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Free Webinar: Summer Survival Skills For Parents
I am glad to announce that A+ Solutions is sponsoring our newest Free Webinar: Summer Survival Skills For Parents July 7, 2016 8-9pm EST In this upcoming Webinar, we are going to cover the following topics: • Set yourself up for success: Effectively schedule your summer days • Stop temper tantrums before they start • […]
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Kids Misbehaving? It All Works Out In The End
The other day it was my cousin’s birthday and from what I understand he was quite a handful as a kid. His brother posted this on Facebook: Sure, your kid is covered in dirt now. And yeah, your kindergartener just got suspended for biting a 5th grader. They barf on the dentist. They barf on […]
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Losing The NBA Championship: It’s Okay Cleveland
It’s a bit of a rainy day for us here in Cleveland. Literally and figuratively. Our Cleveland Cavaliers were heading for an NBA Championship and last night after putting up a great fight and playing their hearts out, they lost. So everybody in my house is a bit down in the dumps, even the people […]
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Sibling Rivalry: Are You The Referee?
Sibling Rivalry is one of the toughest things we need to deal with as parents. Kids often fight and they often complain: “I always have to do everything!” or “Why don’t you ask, Sam? Why do you always ask me?” Kids have a running tab in their head of who has done what. Each child […]
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How To Talk To Other People’s Kids
Dear Adina, Just earlier today, I came home to find three kids from my neighbourhood hanging outside my block. Because of problems, I heard they were no longer allowed in the block. So I said hello, asked them if they were okay, then asked them why they’re not allowed in the block. They said they […]
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Disciplining Our Children: 3 Simple Phrases That Work
Last night we had our book club, the last one in our series. We discussed, Blessing of a Skinned Knee, by Wendy Mogel. This book is so chock full of wisdom and there was so much to talk about. We had some very animated discussions on the topic of chores, responsibility, respecting parents, over scheduling […]
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Parents and Worrying: How Much Is Too Much?
I am really excited for our next book club, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. We are reading The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, by Wendy Mogel. I love this book and I am rereading it now in preparation for next week. This book is chock full of wisdom. I just finished reading this:(p.97) “I once heard […]
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Respectful Kids? You Can Teach Your Kids Respect
I have a good friend who grew up in a difficult home. She often tells me that she because she grew up surrounded by dysfunction, she has had plenty of time to contemplate the makings of functional, loving homes. Her latest, is this: “Respect”. Respect, she feels, is the cornerstone of a good home. If […]
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Keeping Kids Busy: The Educational Value In Puzzles
I have one son who loves puzzles. At a very young age, he was putting together 100 piece puzzles. Now years later, the puzzles have gotten more complicated. He received a 9,000 piece puzzle for Chanukah that he just finished recently. It took him 4 months. It has taken up over half the playroom, even […]
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