The Power of Positive Family Engagement
High-stakes assessments are creating quite a stressful learning environment for students and teachers in schools. Teachers just can’t do it alone, so parents have an…
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Use Media to Teach Your Kids Self-Control
In a world of instant gratification and instant access to just about everything, self-control is really important—and can be really challenging. You can use…
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Intervention Services Can Prevent Juvenile Incarceration
When you live in a rural community, you really get to know your neighbors. With fewer people around, your neighbors’ kids become your own…
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Living with Columbine: Protecting Our Kids
As the mother of a child just entering middle school in the district where the infamous Columbine High School shooting occurred, I have a…
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The Perfect Formula for Academic Achievement
Childhood obesity has become a major topic in our schools. According to the CDC, childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled…
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Home Experiments for Kids: Rocket Launch!
Our Children Magazine presents fun….easy…and cheap science projects for kids! Is your child a mad scientist in the making? Have they ever wanted to…
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Your Best Shot is a Flu Vaccine
As winter approaches, cold weather isn’t the only thing you and your family need to be ready for. Flu season is on its way…
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Why I Volunteer
From the PTA Blog: Even at 40 years old, I still get scared. Driving out of town to a place I have never been…
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Kid-Friendly Cooking for Thanksgiving
Perhaps the most special thing about cooking is the way that skills and traditions are passed down within families from generation to generation. Holidays—particularly…
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National Adoption Month: One Mother’s Story
November is National Adoption Month! In celebration of the wonderful adoptive families in America, we asked one mom, Cynthia Gismegian, to share her adoption…
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