Holiday Stress for Kids
Many of us have been brought up to believe the holidays are a wonderfully happy time of year. TV and radio stations play a variety of merry music and shows […]
Read more »Normal Can Be Deceiving
As an education specialist who has worked in the field of exceptionality for over two decades I have overheard one parent say to another, on more than one occasion, “well […]
Read more »Better Ways to Handle Aggression
“The squeaky wheel always gets the oil!” is no more true than in the school setting. One of the squeakiest wheels is the child with anger and aggression issues. In […]
Read more »Harassment in a Digital Age
I remember back in elementary school when a couple of schoolmates kept getting dragged into the principal’s office for teasing a kid that lived just down the street from them. […]
Read more »The Heroes Among Us
As the story line usually goes, the superheroes among us generally blend in with our day-to-day lives. It’s not until a catastrophic event that their strengths really become apparent to […]
Read more »Don’t Lose a Student
If you’ve followed this blog at all you know that I spent several years working with socially and emotionally impaired adolescents and while I found this to be a very […]
Read more »Good Idea?
The majority of the students I worked with came from less than desirable family backgrounds and many lived at or below the poverty line, so being a compassionate educator I […]
Read more »Classroom Respect, Behavior & Learning
Stand on the playground during recess or in the hall during lunch and you’ll hear the usual conversations about boys, girls, sports, homework, teachers and student life in general, but […]
Read more »The Kid is Running with the Wrong Crowd Part 2
For those of you who recall my last blog post I was talking about why kids can fall into the wrong social group and noted research that found that “the […]
Read more »The Kid is Running with the Wrong Crowd
It seems that more and more parents are asking the question, “Why am I having so many problems with my teenage son or daughter? She won’t listen to me when […]
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