Current trends in teen fashion for boys

The world of fashion is a bewildering place and even more so when you are the parent of a teen.
The clothing that they wear is sometimes a bit bewildering and hard for a parent to understand.
Often as pare

Teaching your child to deal with bullies

Bullies are an unfortunate part of life that we wish our children could avoid. Unfortunately that’s
not always possible and so we have to prepare them for how to handle things instead. With the
ever risi

Calming your childs fears about starting a new school

Starting a new school year can be one of the hardest times in a child’s life. To an adult it doesn’t
seem like much in the grand scheme of things but we’ve gotten older and forgotten how mu

School supplies and where to get them

Growing up, my grandmother taught me a very valuable lesson when it came to school
supplies. She used to take me to the local “Dollar Store” and we would spend 20 dollars
on paper, pencil

Balancing play and study time setting boundaries

One of the joys of being a child is having time to play. Playing is important in child development
for a couple of reasons. It gives time for the body to decompress from the stress of an active
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Riding the bus or driving your child to school which is better?

As summer draws to a close and the time to buckle down and start school approaches one of the
things that we need to start thinking about is how we’re going to get our children to s

Tutoring- better to get started right away?

While tutoring may generally be looked at as a way to get a child that has fallen behind
in class work up to speed with the class, being proactive and using a tutor to help a young
student pr

Preparing for extracurricular activities

With the beginning of the school year comes not only the rush to prepare not only for school but
also for all of those extra activities that come with the school year. With children preparing to
run off

Summer Reading

Keeping kids interested in books is getting easier with J.K. Rowling’s Harry
Potter books inspiring the highest childhood literacy rates in years, but while Harry’s
great for getting kids interested, to keep ahead

Planning schedules around rising gas prices

One of the biggest problems that we face today is the rising gas prices and how they affect our
ability to get around. When it costs %60 or more to fill up a vehicle it starts digging into already
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