Making Bread: A Tasty Way to Do Science
Making bread provides opportunities to measure, question and observe.
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Write a Recipe
Writing out a recipes is a fun way to connect language arts skills to daily life for second- and third-graders.
Partnering with your elementary school teacher
How (and why) you should play a key role in your child's school success.
Teaching elementary schoolers persistence
How to help your children stick with it (no matter what).
How to praise elementary schoolers
The right (and wrong) way to cheer on your third- through fifth-grader.
Edible scavenger hunt
Give your third-, fourth-, or fifth-grader healthy detective work with this nutritious game.
Do you need a parent coach?
Go, Mom, go! Could a parent coach turn you into the parent you always hoped to be?
My Son Struggles in Class But Works Well at Home
I am very confused because my son works differently at school than when he is at home. The work his teachers say he struggles with in school is work he breezes through at home without a problem. The problem is mainly in math. I went...
My Son Is Smart, Slow and Stubborn
My son is pretty smart and was just accepted into his school's "gifted and talented" program. The problem is he does everything slowly including copying a simple assignment, taking a bath and eating.
He also gets extremely distracted. For example, when he is...
The power of play
As children slog though grueling schedules of enrichment and academics, researchers have found a connection between brain development and the very thing kids are getting less of.
