DEVELOPING KIDS' MINDS

For many parents, the school year creates challenges around routines, especially homework completion. When school gets under way, parents...

Recently, my son pointed out “pelicans have pouches like koalas, kangaroos, and wallabies” as I was reading Little Kids: First Big Book o...

Children exposed to the fundamentals needed for school readiness are primed to benefit from classroom instruction. Can children absorb th...

Reading to your child has always been encouraged. It’s now understood to be more important than ever to read aloud to children. Parents c...

Stress is up in America. According to the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.), the overall stress levels among Americans increase...

One of the most helpful things a parent can do is to be available to their child. Children who have parents to talk to about their feelin...

Once kids learn to label their feelings, they are more in command of their thoughts, bodies, and, in turn, actions.

Children spend a lot of time and energy developing the wiring in their brains to become readers. Studies have found preschoolers who matc...

My favorite is Kiko’s Thinking Time. Developed to boost memory, thinking, reasoning, and problem solving, Kiko's delivers.

The point of the time-out is to offer both the parent and child an opportunity to cool-down.

One way to help students develop imaging skills is to use technology designed to enhance visualization.

The Human Genome Project is continually mapping the sequence of genes responsible for everything that has been linked with genetic inheri...

Albert Einstein once said, “If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.” And it turns out that this is a critical concept about how we ...

Early identification is the first step to helping children. Parents who intervene early on help their child by finding the right support.

Creative play allows kids to develop important executive functioning skills, like impulse control.

If a child is given adequate attention, they tend to show their appreciation by not acting out or seeking negative attention.

The needs of children with learning disabilities mandate that parents, teachers, and all other professionals possess a set of positive “m...

A multi-sensory teaching method, called Diana Hanbury King Typing, introduces finger-key positions. Students learn to type using the sequenc