By Visa Shanmugam
According to a survey of kindergarten through fourth grade children (published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics) teachers have reported that about 10% of the kids were falling asleep in school.
By Dr. Sue Hegel
Do you ever get frustrated with trying to get your child to study?
Does your child have difficulty with studying, ceaselessly complaining, and doing anything to avoid it?
Does frustration from both you and your child create endless squabbles over studying?
The Bars Technique
What if, it didn’t take much to totally transform both you and your child’s experience of school, studying and testing – and all it involves is a technique called “The Bars”. Parents are using the Bars to assist their children to have fun in school, study easier, and test better, with less nagging and better grades abound.
By Amy Egan
Recently, I have been coaching a mother whose six-year-old daughter has a lot of control in their home. Due to the nature of their personalities, both parents were allowing this to go on because they saw it as being better than any conflict that ensued when Meg was not given her way. Naturally, life had gotten very uncomfortable for all three of them. To start with, we worked out a plan to help get Mom and Dad back in charge of the situation. Things like not arguing with Meg, setting a limit once and following through with a consequence, not minding when Meg got really upset with them, all helped tremendously. And while both parents were thrilled with the improvements and new-found harmony within the family, Mom was still puzzled by Meg’s almost constant attempts to control her mother.
Our work together then went on to the next layer of the onion, and here is what popped up.
