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Help Your Teen Develop Their College List Ideally, during your high school student’s junior year, you will sit down and start thinking about which colleges are a good fit for your student. Aside from looking at majors, you will need to see if your student has the grades and test scores to be accepted. Generally, this information can be found on the college’s website. Other factors to consider are tuition costs, location, and reputation....

It’s also common for kids to grow less vigilant on personal hygiene when they hit middle and high school, especially once they’re no longer under their parent’s watchful eye while grooming. Here’s a primer on which healthy hygiene habits to teach your teen and how to instill them into your child’s daily routine. Why Are Hygiene Habits Important? Hygiene is essentially how we keep our bodies clean. Cleanliness practices serve two basic functions....

This parenting style utilizes “tough love” combined empathy to send a message that essentially says, “I know you don’t like the rules, but I’m going to enforce them anyway because it’s good for you, and I love you.” This article explains the principles and benefits of authoritative parenting and tough love. It also offers some examples of how to use this approach. What Is Authoritative Parenting? Authoritative parenting is often confused with authoritarian parenting....

The opposite is also true. How your work is going will affect your relationship. This shouldn’t be surprising because most people spend more time at work than they spend awake with their spouse! If you are happy with your work, that will enhance your relationship. You will probably be in a good mood when you get home. You will be relatively relaxed and will have an enjoyable evening with your spouse....

As happy as you are to see your kid making friendships and enjoying time with their peers, you never really hit it off with this child’s parent. The conversations on play dates always seem to turn to topics you don’t enjoy and there were hints that the two of you do not see eye to eye on many aspects of life and parenting. While you may wish it weren’t the case, you won’t automatically like all of your kid’s friend’s parents....

These tests include the Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (CTONI), Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test-Second Edition (UNIT2), Raven’s Progressive Matrices (RPM), and the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, Fourth Edition (TONI-4) 2010, and earlier versions of TONI. Why Nonverbal Intelligence Tests Are Needed Nonverbal assessments attempt to remove language barriers in the estimation of a student’s intellectual aptitude. This is especially helpful in assessing students without speech or who have limited language ability, those with deafness or who are hard of hearing, and those with English language limitations....

Despite all the horror stories you may have heard, childcare doesn’t have to be a nightmare. For every notorious day-care institution, there are hundreds of adequate ones and dozens of good ones. For every baby sitter caught beating a child on camera for the evening news, there are dozens of sensitive, caring sitters who would never dream of harming a baby. If you do your homework-by conducting interviews, visiting day-care sites, checking references, and so on-you will almost certainly find one of the good ones....

Researchers used brain imaging to observe activity and shape recognition in infants and toddlers. The study gives insight into the ability to absorb information at an early age. Inside the Mind of a Child Researchers at Yale University collected brain imaging data from 17 children. The participants, ages 3 to 24 months old, viewed sequenced patterns and colorful objects. Researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). They were able to see if a child had brain activity while viewing the objects....

You can help strengthen your child’s interpersonal intelligence by: Asking her to help younger siblings or other children with their school work. Giving her the responsibility to help determine where the family will go on vacation this year, requiring her to survey other family members and presenting their findings at a family meeting. Encouraging her to join academic study groups or to form her own study group. Allowing her to volunteer in the community....

If he happens to be unavailable—because you don’t know who he is or cannot locate him—it’s a non-issue. Even if you listed him on the application, it wouldn’t make it onto the actual birth certificate without his signature on a legal Acknowledgement of Paternity form. Naming the Father Benefits Your Child If your baby’s father is involved, then naming him on the birth certificate doesn’t necessarily benefit him, but it could benefit your child....

Joshua comes from the Hebrew name “Yehoshua,” meaning “God is deliverance.” In the Old Testament of the Bible, Joshua was the Israelite leader who succeeded Moses and led the Hebrews to the Promised Land. How Popular Is the Name Joshua? Joshua has been one of America’s top 100 boy names since 1971. Its popularity steadily rose in the 1970s, reaching the top 10 in 1979 and staying there for 30 years....

It used to be so simple: five-year-olds went to kindergarten and six-year-olds went to first grade. But what was once a natural course of events has recently become a difficult decision for many parents. Why? Because kindergarten ain’t what it used to be. In the Beginning… Kindergarten was originally conceived in the 1800s by German philosopher and school teacher Friedrich Froebel. He thought of it literally as a “child’s garden” – a place to fill with plants and flowers and nurture children’s curiosity....

What Kids Should Learn in Reading In the area of reading, the teacher’s principle goal is that the children view reading as central to learning and as a source of endless information and enjoyment. The teacher also wants each child to gain confidence about being a successful reader. More specifically, the third grade curriculum is designed to ensure that children: The teacher continues to support invented or transitional spelling, but children are encouraged to pay more attention to What Kids Should Learn about Listening and Speaking The oral aspects of language are important and are closely related to the development of children’s reading, writing, and thinking skills....

Because the ability to read is an early predictor of educational achievement, students with reading disorders are at risk of poor academic performance throughout their school years. They may experience low self-esteem and negative outcomes later in life if they don’t receive the help they need. As with all learning disabilities, there is no cure for reading disorders. However, a variety of teaching methods are available to help students cope with their disability and learn to read successfully....

The following questions are designed to help you identify possible destructive patterns in your past marriage. These are difficult questions that will require a lot of thought. Be sure to answer them when you have time and can give them your full attention: If you didn’t notice any similarities in your relationships, you either have already learned from your mistakes (great!) or you are having trouble being objective. It’s very important to think about the role you play in the relationship with your spouse....

Opportunities for girls and women in sports are on the rise, but leveling the playing field often means altering some old and very popular traditions. This winter at Shore Regional High School in West Long Branch, New Jersey, the girls’ basketball team ran the floor while the school’s band rocked out tunes of encouragement from the stands. The players were pumped. The crowd roared. After the game, a male student said this to girls’ athletic coach Nancy Williams: “That was awesome, but it’s not fair....

It has Biblical roots: in the Old Testament, Levi is the son of Jacob and Leah. The Levites are also one of the 12 tribes of the Israelites. In this way, Levi is a name signifying the unification or founding of something. How Popular Is the Name Levi? As of 2020, Levi was the 18th most popular boy name in America, per the Social Security Administration. It’s the most popular the name has been since 1900, when the Social Security Administration’s records began....