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To summarize the first episode, ouch! The babies were crying, the teenagers were whining, and the real parents were in stress mode. It was a little hard to watch. I could feel the tension and developed a headache before it was over.
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It doesn't take a study for teachers to know that parental involvement plays a big part in student achievement. However, I'm not sure anyone has ever put a dollar amount to its value before. A study suggests that parental involvement in children’s
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I have recently heard parents openly talking about teachers and why or why not they don't want their children in a particular teacher's room next year. They freely discuss teachers while going about their own daily lives like it's the same
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Summers go by fast, and before you know it, school is back in session. It's easy for students to forget some of those reading skills during those "lazy, hazy, crazy" days of summer, and a lot of parents are looking for summer reading ideas.
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Students today don't face the same consequences for misbehaving or not doing their work that their parents and grandparents faced. One thing that really stands out to me is that a lot of parents are more likely to support their kids than the school. It
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How much help should parents give their children with homework? Should homework be the focus of every evening after school? Over the Thanksgiving break I asked a young mom visiting from Illinois how things were going with her kids. She laughed and said
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Just when I think I've read everything, I see an article about parents being assigned homework. "No way," I think to myself. A lot of the parents seem happy to do the work and feel that it is only fair since the teacher is giving so much of himself to
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For some strange reason, I am always cynical about surveys. It seems like people spout off information, and use it to support their own causes. What really happens with the accumulated data anyway? For a few years we were able to evaluate our schools
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Another study (just love those research people) now shows that kids gain more weight during the summer than they do during the school year. Does this mean that we can't blame school cafeteria food? Now it appears that kids are gaining more weight under
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Five students didn't receive their diplomas because of cheers from the crowd as they walked across the stage in Galesburg, Illinois. Rules are rules, I guess, but this seems a bit excessive to me. About a month before the May 27 ceremony, Galesburg High
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The things that I remember most about my very early childhood don't include television or technology of any kind, because none of it existed. One of my clearest memories is sitting in front of a screen door watching my mother hang out clothes. This was
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I once had a student turn in a beautifully written composition that I knew was not his work. When I talked to his mother, she told me, "Of course, I did it. You know he can't write." Parents sometimes feel that they have to help out with projects because
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The funny thing about kids throwing tantrums is it is so magnified for the parent. You feel like everyone is looking at you like you are a bad parent. Of course, some people are, but they can just get over themselves. An article in Redbook called " How
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Some teachers (and probably parents) have had enough of the " whatev-ah" response. Even preschoolers are saying it. The word sort of stops you in your tracks and makes you think that whatever you are saying must not be important. It's a catch-all response
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Pizza Hut's Book It program has been around since 1985 and has motivated a lot of kids to get into reading. With all of the concern about childhood obesity, some people feel that it is time to not Book It. You've read the book, now eat the pizza. Since
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