Having problems getting through to your teen about needed behavioral changes? A teen behavior contract may be the way to go. Teen behavior contracts are agreements between parent and child intended to produce desired outcomes. It may be higher grades, doing more chores, developing a better attitude, or making new friends. Regardless, the process to ...
Ursuline Academy , in Dedham, MA offers young women in the greater Boston area a chance to make a substantive choice about the kind of secondary school education they wish to receive. There are many excellent public schools in the Boston area but there are also some public schools at which education is no longer ...
What is the main focus in education? What is the purpose? To prepare students for real life jobs, careers and situations, right? Unfortunately, much of what we teach is dead-end; It lacks a purpose. We might get away with that for college preparation classes. But in any class which teaches skills, practical application is essential. ...
“These are the best years of your life” This phrase is typically used to describe High School or College. Which period you agree with is most often situational, and depends on individual experiences. For me, it was definitely College. It is when each becomes their own; breaks free from the confines of mother and father. ...
Speaking as a parent of a college student, I wish we had been more prepared for our daughter going to college than we have been over the years. If I had of known the following free printable college worksheets were available on the internet when she started high school, I suspect all of us would ...
Several years ago, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) presented many challenges to the medical world and diagnosis was practically out of reach. Children that couldn’t sit still or keep from talking were considered disruptive and unruly. This behavior naturally led to increasingly bad grades for these children and by the time they reached middle school, they ...
