How To Teach Your Child Problem Solving Skills

Many parents neglect and wipe out their children’s problems. We are often so busy, so stressed, so overwhelmed by the realities and necessities of life that Mary’s failed spelling test or Johnny’s fight on the playground seem unimportant, uneventful and one more drain...

Preparation For Bullying

One of the critical parental tasks is to prepare our children for the “real” world and its events. One of the events that, in one form or another, appears for every child is bullying, people or other children who want to make you feel stupid, ugly, incompetent, weird...

Anxiety As A Critical Factor In Learning

My friend took her beautiful, brilliant four year old son to a gifted school to be tested. When the charming teacher invited him into the adjoining room to talk and play, he established himself under a table and refused to emerge. No amount of promises or cajoling or...