Author: Matthew Lynch
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Helping Your Child Deal with College Rejection and Acceptance
College application season is an extremely stressful time for high school seniors and parents alike. Your child is surely feeling the pressure: He may think his ... -
What Your Child Should Learn in Kindergarten
The first year your child spends in school is a time of great exploration. Learning is often disguised as playtime, which allows your child to experience ... -
Pass or Fail: The Importance of Early Intervention
In this multi-part series, I provide a dissection of the phenomenon of retention and social promotion. Also, I describe the many different methods that would improve student instruction ... -
How to Use Technology to Prevent School Bullying
Every year during October, schools, and organizations all over the world celebrate National Bully Prevention Month. The goal: increase awareness of the effects of bullying on ... -
Why Academics Should Stop Writing and Speaking in Jargon
Academics seem to write exclusively for themselves. Their writing includes selective phrases and other oddities that prevent them from being understood rather than increasing their communication ... -
What to Expect: Age 17
Is your teenager rapidly approaching the days of adulthood? Their teenage years and adolescence are quickly coming to a close by their seventeenth year. Parents may ... -
What to Expect: Age 16
Many parents associate the sweet age of sixteen with driver’s licenses, freedoms, and increased independence. Children look forward to this age with eager anticipation of the ... -
How to Help Kids Understand Scary Events
The key to helping kids understand scary events is first to recognize that is often impossible to understand. Even as adults, we struggle to wrap our ... -
How to Avoid Power Struggles with Your Kids
Even the most well-behaved children will try to gain power over their parents from time to time. However, those parents going through continuous power struggles need ... -
What to Expect: Age 11
Your eleven-year-old is rapidly approaching the dramatic teenage years that many parents have come to dread. However, this is still an age where you can enjoy ...
