10 Study Habits Your Child Needs to Succeed
It’s that time of year again. We’ve traded beach days for school days and once the shiny freshness of the first few days of…
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9 Ways Parents Can Help Bullied Kids Learn Resilience
Whenever Jessie hung out with her best friends Chloe and Meg, they gossiped about another seventh-grader named Kate. Jessie didn’t know Kate, but Chloe…
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Four Myths About Back-to-School
Stress caused by Myths …. A mother of two teenagers sighed as she confessed to me her mixed emotions about this month. When I…
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10-Day Countdown to School Readiness
Despite the best of intentions, reading and writing often take a back seat to other activities over the summer—speech-language pathologists working in schools often…
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How to Choose the Best School for Your Child
As parents, we are constantly bombarded with loads of information about schools—which schools have the highest test scores, the best sports teams, the most…
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Summer Stride: Five Ways to Help Your Child Move Forward
Every year during summer break, too many children lose more than baby teeth, frisbees and beach toys. They lose two to three months of…
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Girl Meets Working World
Like most teens in their junior year of high school, Jill Hassler has big dreams for her future. “I’ve thought about a lot of…
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Get Crafty for Earth Day!
Earth Day is almost here, so gather up all those plastic bottle tops! The ones on your soda bottles. The ones from your mayo…
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Breakfast: The Right Way to Start the School Day
Parents and teachers know how hunger affects children in and out of the classroom. Starting the school day ready to learn—by eating a healthy…
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A Voice for 5 Million Children
I’ve never met Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett. Truthfully, I’ve not met any of our current Supreme Court Justices. But I’ve thought a…
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