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60 Ways to Keep Kids Engaged at Home During the Coronavirus Shutdown
A Mighty Girl's top tips for parents on keeping kids engaged at home while observing social distancing.
Help for your family during COVID-19
In these unprecedented times, Focus on the Family Canada wants to encourage you to see this time as a gift – an opportunity to learn, play and grow ...
Afterthoughts: A blog for the classical, Charlotte Mason mama.
An intellectual watering hole for classical, Charlotte Mason homeschooling mamas. We resist systems and instead implement methods -- practices driv ...
10 Ways Teachers Can Support Third Culture Kids
I was talking to the principal of an international school recently, and he had never heard the term “Third Culture Kid” (TCK). This really surprise ...
California's first surgeon general: Screen every student for childhood trauma
"One thing that tipped me off was the number of kids being sent to me by schools" Dr. Nadine Burke Harris has an ambitious dream: screen every ...
Boost your child's progress in school: Understand how your child differs from you
Differences between our learning experience and our child’s learning experience can mean we fail to recognize points of real crisis for our child. ...
A Very Dangerous Place for a Child Is College
“Colleges should do this and colleges should do that, everyone says?” I walked across the front of the auditorium, stopped and faced the two hundre ...
How you talk to your child changes their brain
A simple change in the way you communicate can boost your child's cognitive development.
By: Sophie Hardach
Cross-cultural education: advice for parents
This post covers some key advice I give to parents about coping with the stresses associated with cross-cultural education. It’s nice to hear that ...
The beautiful ways different cultures sign emails
Depending on where you live, the words you use to sign off your email could be just as important as the content.
Helping kids who procrastinate on school work
What’s really behind all the dilly-dallying and delaying? Is procrastination simply laziness or lack of self-discipline?
By: Catherine Wi ...
Foreign Language Training
The School of Language Studies (SLS) provides language and culture training to U.S. government employees with job-related needs. It addresses all a ...