While it’s difficult enough as an adult to run a successful business, if we are doing our best to prepare our children for the business world, it’s important that we help to develop their entrepreneurial…
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Helping Your Child Develop Empathy
Empathy is a strongly needed quality among all people. It is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. With more empathy comes more compassion, lower crime rates, and more unity among everyone….
What Children Need to Know about Being Reliable
Reliability is an important life lesson that unfortunately does not come naturally to everyone. It is a quality that makes people easier to get along with. It can be frustrating to be in a relationship…
Critical Life Skills That Every Child Needs To Thrive
Whether you are a parent or an educator, you will want to help facilitate the learning that kids need not just to succeed in the classroom, but also to thrive in the modern world. Of…
How to Raise Children to Be Good Leaders
It’s been said that leadership starts at home. It just may be that leadership is, at least in part, an outgrowth of early training. There is disagreement among experts as to just how much leadership…
How to Be an Effective Leader for Children
There’s a lot of talk these days about leadership, and the need for children to have strong leaders. Whether you are working with children who are yours or you’re a teacher/mentor/leader for others’ children, learning…
Teaching Your Child to Be Tactful
Tactfulness is the art of using discretion and sensitivity when speaking and relating to those around you. It is a great quality that helps one avoid awkward situations, and become a better friend to everyone….
Show and Tell Me Two: An Afterschool Review Strategy
Just before your little sweetie tosses that bookbag across the floor when they get home ask them to grab a sheet of paper and pencil as soon as they get home. You want to ask…
Accelerate Your Learning With These 9 Tips
Life is long enough that you can learn to do some amazing things. You might have to learn a new skill for work or some information for a test. Maybe you just want to learn…
Are You Providing Your Kids these Five Learning Opportunities in Your Home?
Good students usually come from good homes where one or both parents have spend a substantial amount of time, energy, and resources providing a rich learning environment. None of this means that you have to…