Jan 28, 2024 | Parenting and Children, Teens and Young Adults
Two Things To Know And One Thing To Do To Start The School Year Off Right With the new school year starting for most students over the next couple of weeks, both parents and adolescents will undergo predictable stressors that come each fall. Parents begin another...
Jan 27, 2024 | Parenting and Children, Teens and Young Adults
What is “summer slump” or “summer backslide”? These terms address the regression in skills that students experience when they are enjoying their summer vacations away from their regular course rigor. While regression can be steep (e.g., up to 25% decline in reading...
Jan 27, 2024 | Parenting and Children
When a marriage ends there is almost always a good deal of fear surrounding the future. The children if there are any, finances, and our new identity as a non-married or divorced person are often at the top of the list of worries. Divorce causes feelings of profound...
Jan 22, 2024 | Parenting and Children
All parents want their child to be socially and emotionally competent. Social-emotional intelligence is a key to success in all areas. In a meta-analysis of more than 100 studies comparing students who had high SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) to students who had...
