PRAISE – Begin a praise day and have all students write down something they like about another person in the class. It could start, “The nicest thing about you is” and have the students finish the paragraph. This encourages respect amongst students and makes it the norm in your classroom. One student gets a turn [...]

A 1997 Department of Education study showed that only 27% of the dads they surveyed were considered “highly involved” in their children’s education (compared to 56% for moms). They rated dads as “highly involved” if they participated in at least three of the four following activities: attending general school meetings, attending regular parent-teacher conferences, attending [...]

Children growing up in a dysfunctional family have been known to adopt one or more of six basic roles:
• “The Good Child” – a child who assumes the parental role.
• “The Problem Child” – the child who is blamed for most problems * in spite of often being the only emotionally stable one in the [...]