Ways to Better Grades in Math

Does your child end up looking like this? Does she get frustrated and tired of homework? There is hope! Your little one(s) can get better grades in Math and every other subject! You can help them succeed in their education journey! Here's a few tips for better grades in Math:

Encourage your child to use a daily math assignment book. Give your little one a blank notebook and add some Math work and practice every day or so.


Follow the progress your child is making in math. Check with your child daily about his homework. Consistent, positive reinforcement can lead to better grades and a better grasp of important math skills! Persist!


If you don't understand your child's math assignments, talk to his or her teacher. It helps if you are both on the same page. Your teacher might offer some free worksheets or point your to other free resources to help your child get a better handle on math!


If your child is experiencing problems in math, contact the teacher to learn whether he or she is working at grade level and what can be done at home to help improve academic progress.


Request that your child's teacher schedule after-school math tutoring sessions if your child really needs help.


Advocate with the principal for the use of research-based peer tutoring programs for math. These tutoring programs have proven results, and students really enjoy them.


Use everyday household chores as opportunities for reinforcing math learning such as cooking and repair activities. Give her ( or him ) an allowance and teach them some basics of money and budgeting!


Try to be aware of how your child is being taught math, and don't teach strategies and shortcuts that conflict with the approach the teacher is using. Check in with the teacher and ask what you can do to help. Ask the teacher about online resources that you can use with your child at home.

At the beginning of the year, ask your child's teacher for a list of suggestions that will enable you to help your child with math homework. Read on for even more homework tips.

Lessons for Your Daughters

Every Parent wants their children to have a happy, healthy, and safe life. ( At least i hope they do! ) How can we impart true wisdom and enable our beloved young ones to avoid the mistakes we learned from? How can we teach them to love everyone - as much as possible and trust no one? How can we shelter our youth from those who would prey on their lack of experience and youthful innocence?

Simple Counsels for a Young Girl

Yes, very simple. Listen my child, and may they sink deep into your heart, as the dew sinks in the calyx of the flower.


These are my counsels:—

Distrust the love that comes too suddenly.

Distrust the pleasure that fascinates so keenly.

Distrust the words that trouble or charm.

Distrust the book that makes you dream.

Distrust the thought you cannot confide to your mother.

Treasure these counsels, and sometimes as you read them, ask yourself, "Why?" Guardian Angel of the child we are addressing, teach her the reason of these sentences that seem to her so exaggerated!

Lessons for Healthy Children

What lessons might we share with our youth to best prepare them as they grow up?

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth" 1 John 3: 17-18

And more thoughts - an excerpt from an old French work on Love and Devotion:

Duty Towards My Neighbor
GOOD EXAMPLE.
By modest demeanor and simple dress.

By a smiling face and pleasing manner.

Always striving to give pleasure.

Faithfully fulfilling every duty.
GOOD WORDS.
Zealous without affectation, encouraging, consoling, peaceful, joyful, loving. These are possible every day.
GOOD DEEDS.
Service rendered by alms, by industry, by influence.

Ills remedied, by excusing, justifying, protecting, defending, concealing faults and mistakes; if possible, by repairing them.

Joys provided, for the mind, by a joyous manner; for the heart, by loving thanks; for the soul, by a word of Heaven.
My Duty Towards Myself
COURAGE.
In trials and adversity, disturbance, sickness, failure, humiliations.

Worries that trouble without reason.

Ill temper controlled, in order not to pain others.

After failures, to begin again.

In temptations, to withstand them.
ORDER AND METHOD.
In my occupation, each at its appointed hour.

In my recreation.

In all material things, for my benefit.

Shunning scruples and constraint as much as caprice and folly.
NOURISHMENT.
Pious thoughts, read, meditated upon, and sometimes written.

Books that elevate and excite love for all that is good and lovely.

Conversations that refresh, rejoice, and cheer; walks that expand the mind, as well as strengthen the body.

Look upon yourself as the servant of all, but without ostentation, or their having any knowledge of it."

May your children always enjoy helping others!

To your children's health!

Teaching our Children to Save Money!

I hope I can teach my children to be better savers and investors. Lessons learned at an early age seem to stick with us longer. I can still remember my Dad admonishing me to start saving my money while I was in grade-school!

Here are a few ideas to teach your child to start saving money early:

Start with a short-term, easy goal like saving for a favorite toy. Teach them the relationship between work and money by tying an allowance to small household chores. During each payment, separate spending money and savings in front of your child, and place the savings into a clear jar. Seeing their money accumulate will enable them to see the results of their savings efforts.

Once a savings goal is reached, make a big event of the purchase. Be sure to let your child carry the money and hand it over to the cashier. As your child grows older, you can create longer target dates for purchases. ( Like the dreaded first car every teenager inevitably wants! ) Encourage them to save and, if you can afford to - you might offer to match each dollar they save up to a certain amount.

Maybe if we encourage our young ones to start saving money at an early age they will develop a life long habit of saving and investing a portion of everything they earn! Here are some more money saving tips for children.

Play Time

"When I was your age I walked 10 miles to school through the snow..."

"Lets go outside and go to the park" I suggested. "No." He didn't even bother to look up from his video game.

Although he gets much pleasure out of that silly little hand-held game, I sometimes regret buying that contraption. Some days we barely venture outside at all. Mostly when the weather outside is freezing! A little time outdoors in the snow is good for you, isn't it?

Sometimes he surprises me and wants to go outside - or go to the gym and play basketball. ( Thank You, God! ) And still, I just wish I could get him to play outside more. He needs time to run around in the fresh air and explore and play with other kids!

Historically, active play has been the means by which children become healthy and fit. Due to environmental constraints - like a lack of safe, convenient places to play - and our busy schedules, many children just don’t have the chance to enjoy playing outside.

Some interesting research has lead to the following observations:

Girls with a more natural view (trees, grass, shrubs) performed better on standardized performance measures of concentration compared to girls who looked at a more barren setting (buildings, dirt, or paved surfaces).

Children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) had milder ADD symptoms after engaging in play outside versus playing inside. The “greener” the play setting (parks, farms, places with tall trees, grass, or natural water sources), the milder the symptoms.

What can we do? Somewhere I read that to a child Love is spelled T I M E. The time we actually spend with our children is one way they feel our love. And enjoying time together outdoors benefits us all.

Here's hoping we can raise happy and healthy children!

Saving Your Family Money on Health Care

The whole Family benefits from healthy habits. Make fitness a family affair! Most health and education experts would agree that healthy habits are best learned at an early age. Encourage your children or favorite young ones to join in the fun of sports and better fitness. Teach your children at an early age the life long value of sports!

Give them a healthy head start. Children should be encouraged to get involved in sports and physical activity early in their precious young years. Show them. Get out there and play with them. Childhood goes by way too fast as it is. Enjoy their early years with them in healthy pursuits.

Good Health and Fitness will reduce the likelihood of developing a number of health-related conditions. In addition, sports help build important social skills such as determination, cooperation and problem solving.

Leading a healthy lifestyle helps boost self-esteem. Exercise and sports participation offers all kids positive feelings about body image, improved self-esteem, experiences of competency and success and increased self-confidence.

A Healthy body makes it easier for children to enjoy a better balanced mind and body. Exercise and sports participation can enhance the physical and mental health of adolescent girls and boys.

Sports relieves stress and the blues. Physical activity can help reduce symptoms of stress and depression among all children. Lets give our children the greatest blessings possible - lots of love, and fun! Fun in the form of play and sports.

Sports are educational assets. Many high school athletes report higher grades and standardized test scores and lower dropout rates, and are more likely to go on to college than their non-athletic peers.

Athletes tend to live longer and healthier lives. Regular physical activity in adolescence can reduce a child's risk of obesity, which can lower adult onset of heart disease, osteoporosis and certain cancers. Research proves physical activity does improve quality of life.

Lets give our kids the best quality of life we can. And it doesn't have to cost a small fortune. Running, jumping rope, riding bikes and countless other fun activities are inexpensive and good for the whole family!

Get healthy and start saving your money! Make the most of your precious family time. Spring will soon be here. What a perfect time to have more fun with your children or little loved ones. So turn off that TV, get outside and do something healthy and fun! Teach your children healthy habits!