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How to Help Teens Develop Better Phone Habits
By Beverly K. Bachel, author of What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens “Put your phone down and go outside.” How many times will you say this to teens … Continue reading
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Tagged Free Spirit author, goal setting, kids and smartphones, smartphones, summer
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Boost Your Kids’ Goal-Setting Skills with the Help of Tiny Habits
By Beverly K. Bachel, author of What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens Summer is a great time to turn your get-to-it-later kids into real goal-getters with the help … Continue reading
Summer Camp Tips for Parents
Part of our Counselor’s Corner series. Click to read other posts in the Counselor’s Corner. The school year has ended, which means children have lots of free times on their hands! Kids who attend summer camps and programs gain excellent … Continue reading
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Tagged summer, summer camp, summer camp tips for parents, summer learning loss
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Don’t Sing the Summertime Hygiene Blues
by Marguerite Crump, author of No B.O.! The Head-to-Toe Book of Hygiene for Preteens Whew! Gotta love the summertime, but the heat of summer brings about some serious hygiene issues that we—and the tweens and teens in our lives—just don’t … Continue reading
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Cash in on Learning: Overcoming the Winter BLAHS by Planning for Summer Hurrahs!
by Richard Cash, Ed.D., Free Spirit Publishing author of Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning for the 21st Century Well, the excitement of the holidays is behind us and my winter vacation is now a fading tanned memory. Even though the … Continue reading