Parent Tips Parent Tips: Friend Drama, Group Chats, and Cliques—Coaching Social Skills Without Taking Over Parent guide to friend drama, group chats, and cliques—reflection questions, boundary scripts, teacher tips, and a weekly friendship check-in tool.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Big Projects Without Meltdowns—Essays, Presentations, and Science Fairs Turn school projects into calm, on-time success with a simple backward planner, weekly checkpoints, and clear parent–student roles—plus email scripts, dashboards, and routines that reduce procrastination and last-minute meltdowns.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Supporting Neurodivergent Learners—Home–School Alignment for ADHD & Autism Practical guide for parents of neurodivergent kids to align home and school supports, improve communication with teachers, and build routines that help ADHD and autistic learners thrive.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Bedtime to Bell Time—Sleep & Morning Routines That Make School Easier Create calmer school mornings with bedtime routines, tech limits, and launchpad prep that reduce stress and help kids arrive ready to learn.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Test Anxiety & Performance Nerves—Calm Confidence Before Big Days Help kids beat test anxiety with simple routines, calming strategies, and confidence-building tools for big tests and performances.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Raising Self-Advocates—Coaching Kids to Ask for Help the Right Way Teach kids self-advocacy with scripts, email templates, and checklists to help them ask for help, request extensions, and speak up confidently at school.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Organization Makeover to Prevent Behavior Blowups Disorganization fuels behavior blowups. Learn simple school–home systems—Home folders, photo packing lists, and quick audits—to prevent missing work stress.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Solving Transitions—Lining Up, Switching Tasks, and Pack-Up Pain End transition meltdowns with a shared school-home system using visual schedules, first–then boards, countdowns, micro-steps, and quick rehearsals.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Taming Tech Trouble - Phones, Gaming, and Off-Task Screens Stop screen battles with a shared school–home tech plan. Set clear non-negotiables, a reteach→consequence ladder, and paper-first backups to rebuild focus.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: School Avoidance & “My Stomach Hurts”—Gentle Plans That Work Turn anxious, avoidant mornings into steady arrivals with graded exposure, predictable routines, micro-goals, and warm-firm scripts that build confidence.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Calming Big Feelings Before They Boil Over Coach regulation with shared calm-corner routines, break signals, and simple tools so kids manage big feelings, return with dignity, and keep learning together.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Focus & Impulse Control—A Home–School Game Plan Build your child’s focus and impulse control with a simple, aligned home–school plan that uses shared cues, movement breaks, visual timers, and self-monitoring to turn energy into productive routines and consistent wins.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Defiance Into Dialogue—Coaching Respectful Choices Support families and teachers in replacing defiance with teachable skills using shared scripts, replacement behaviors, consistent reinforcement, ABC logs, and a simple one-page BIP for calm, respectful starts.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: From Homework Battles to Calm Study Routines Homework battles decrease when home and school align: clear exemplars, a shared planner, 15-minute Focus Blocks, and a green-yellow-red difficulty scale build routine, reduce stress, and boost student success.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Turning Blurting Into Better Participation If your child blurts out answers or interrupts in class, this parent–teacher plan helps build self-control through shared cues, simple routines, and positive reinforcement. Learn how to coach “pause, think, and wait” behaviors that improve participation and confidence.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Repairing Peer Conflicts the Right Way Learn how to handle peer conflicts with restorative practices that build empathy, accountability, and repair. This parent–teacher guide includes scripts, repair menus, and tracking tools to replace punishment with meaningful restoration.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Mastering Study Skills at Home (Retrieval, Spacing, and Focused Routines) Help your child study smarter with retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, dual coding, and elaboration. Plus easy routines, scripts, games, and checklists.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Collaborating with Teachers for Your Child’s Success Strengthen home–school partnerships with strategies for conferences, check-in emails, goal setting, and advocacy to boost student success.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Supporting Bilingual and Multilingual Development Bilingual and multilingual parenting strategies: labeling, storytelling swaps, language days, games, and balanced exposure boost fluency, empathy, and cognition.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Encouraging Creative Thinking and Problem Solving Ignite your child’s creativity with design thinking, maker challenges, and open-ended art projects that build problem-solving, confidence, and resilience.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Promoting Digital Literacy and Online Safety Digital literacy and online safety for families: manage screen time, vet educational apps, teach fact-checking, set a family tech agreement, and use parental controls.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Establishing Effective Homework Routines Streamline homework time with distraction-free zones, timed sprints, and parent-child check-ins to boost focus and reduce stress.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Integrating STEM through Everyday Activities Turn everyday spaces into hands-on STEM labs: discover easy kitchen chemistry, backyard engineering, coding projects, and tips to make curiosity a family habit.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Cultivating Executive Function Skills Boost kids' executive function with color-coded calendars, chunked projects, timers & mindful breaks for better focus & independence.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Fostering Math Confidence at Home Fun everyday math: turn cooking, chores, shopping, and DIY geometry into hands-on counting, fractions, and problem-solving for kids.
