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5 Ways NOT to react to a bad report card
Maybe you saw this coming, or maybe it was a bolt of lightning out of the clear blue sky. Either way, there's no feeling like the sinking feeling you get when your child brings home a bad report card. You might feel angry with your child, frustrated with your child's teacher, or ashamed that you didn't know or couldn't help your child. Those feelings are all understandable, but there are some very specific ways you should NOT react when you first lay eyes on that sub-par report. Here are five...
Math Anxiety: A Highly Contagious Learning Disorder
Recent studies have shown that parents who struggled with math anxiety in school can unwittingly pass this learning difficulty to their own children. This happens when parents who have their own "math insecurity" assist their children with math homework. These parents don't do it on purpose -- in fact, it's often because they are trying so hard to help their children do better in math than they did. The problem is, their help backfires. Instead of helping the child feel more confident with...
SOL Testing in Pandemic Times
SOL. Three letters some of us dread. Our kids get worried about whether they will pass the tests each year, and spend significant class time preparing for them at school. With no SOL tests given at the end of last school year, you may be worried about this year’s...
Back to School Virtually
When schools shut down in March of 2020, many of us muddled our way through the spring virtual learning the best we could with little time to prepare. School divisions are rolling out their virtual learning plans for the fall now, but many elements may change. This we...
The Report Card Void
By now you may have received report cards for your kids, but what exactly does it mean? Many of us rely on the end of year report cards, SOL test scores, and teacher feedback to know exactly where our kid stands as they step off the bus for the last time of the school...
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