While schools face the monumental challenge of making up for months of unfinished learning, parents have a role to play at home as well. “Parents should try as much as possible to be both engaged with their kids’ schooling and to help their kids get reengaged with school,” says Goldhab...
Transitions call upon children’s ability to be flexible in both thinking and in behavior. Flexibility is difficult for children who have experienced domestic violence, abuse, neglect, divorce, or medical trauma. When life seems chaotic and out of control, children tend to become rigid in their ...
I’ve been thinking about this lesson a lot for the past two years, through raising more puppies and coaching even more people on their relationships with their own dogs. And I know that I’m not the only person who misses the forest for the trees. So, this is important, readers.I’m...
Speak with your employer about your work hours and how flexible they are. Working from 9 AM to 5 PM may be easy when you report to an office, but working in shifts of four to six hours at a time is more challenging when you’reworking from home with kids. Your kids may need your ...
I was even fully supportive when he moved in with a new partner who had a daughter of similar age. My daughter would then spend time with them as a family on her days with daddy. Then they had a little boy who has just turned one. His mother always takes the two kids together so ...
• Mount the backsplash into the wall with construction adhesive brushed on the rear of the backsplash using a paintbrush. Examine the degree of the backsplash using a carpenter’s level and make any alterations necessary. Apply a coating of the building glue to the tops of the cabinets in ...
I have an incredible new job where I get to perform pretty much every day and when I’m not I get to work with kids. I have a kick-ass manager who is supportive and helpful. Not to mention my amazing friends & family, awesome apartment in the heart of Silverlake, my two kitties....
Be realistic and be flexible. With some realistic thinking about lifestyle and careful consideration of the options available, your student should be able to find a meal plan that works for him. Don’t hesitate to ask questions if anything is not clear. This is a new experience for most st...
raising 3 kids and two dogs, and having a husband who arguably has an opposite personality, has trained me to be flexible. Weirdly, as a kid I was very much a go with the flow laid back type. I think it was maybe in high school that I really started to become someone who liked ...
the feeling effectively does not involve language, that they are often quite a bit more fluent in these other highly adaptive, perfectly wonderful ways of managing feelings that, um, we don’t showcase nearly enough because everybody’s pretty preoccupied with getting kids to talk about feelings...