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10 Tips to Help Kids Set and Achieve Summer Goals
By Beverly K. Bachel, author of What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens This summer, turn your get-to-it-later kids into real goal getters with the help of behavioral science, … Continue reading
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Tagged Free Spirit author, goal setting, goal setting for teens, SMART goals, summer break, summer vacation, summertime
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3 Ways to Help Kids Learn Money Smarts This Summer
By Eric Braun and Sandy Donovan, coauthors of The Survival Guide for Money Smarts: Earn, Save, Spend, Give It’s important for kids to learn money management skills, not only so they don’t grow up to bumble their financial affairs, but … Continue reading
S-t-r-e-t-c-h Your Year-End Dollars During Our Spring Sale!
Start your summer with new books! And maybe even start planning for the school year ahead. Order by June 30, 2017, and enjoy 30% off sitewide,* plus free shipping on hundreds of resources on a wide variety of helpful topics … Continue reading
Your Summertime Plan “BE”
By Barbara Gruener Part of our Counselor’s Corner series. Click to read other posts in the Counselor’s Corner. The other day, a friend said something that gave me pause: “We can’t overflow where there is no flow.” Wait, I wondered, … Continue reading
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Tagged appreciation, generosity, gratitude, kindness, self-care, summer break, summertime, volunteering
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Three Tips for Engaging Gifted Learners During the Summer
By Richard M. Cash, Ed.D. Part of our Cash in on Learning series by Richard M. Cash, Ed.D. Click to read other Cash in on Learning posts. I recently saw the movie Gifted, the story of a single man raising … Continue reading
