Helping Your Child Thrive in High School

 

As a parent, you want to make sure your child gains the best experiences they can throughout their school life. There are plenty of ways you can help as a parent to ensure that they thrive as much as they can throughout their school years, and below are some handy tips so your child can look back at high school in later years with a huge grin on their face. 

How to help your Child who is having problems in School

Children can display a wide range of behaviour at school, ranging from rather normal disruptive chats to gritty fighting and name-calling on the playground. The main reasons behind these types of behaviour stem from a kid having strong feelings and require assistance with getting those sorted out.

Here’s how to choose between Public and Private (International) Schools in Singapore

Every parent wishes for their kids to have the best education and while most people don’t agree what a great education looks like, statistics and results show that it’s the combination of creativity with engagement, focused yet practical, and data-driven matched with futuristic thinking.

Seven Amazing Benefits of Meditation for Students

Brittney M. Helmrich

Students nowadays have been living a very busy life, doing their best to make the most of their everyday life. Whether it’s your studies, family, friends or your significant other, making sure that you have everything in order is not a small feat. In fact, with such a busy schedule, you might just forget about taking care of your own needs. But finding some time to ease your mind and relax is very important. If you want to give yourself a break from your very hectic student life, meditate. Here are some of its benefits.

5 Tips to Helping your Child Study at Home

Studying is one of the hardest habits to instill in children, but it is something crucial to their academic and professional formation. You as a parent should also study up on how to be able to help them to get and improve these qualities. The encouragement that you give to studying habits and the techniques that you will be using to do it are things you should think long and hard about. Not sure where to start? The following tips may be of much help to helping your young student:

How to Help Your Kids to Succeed with their Studies

Books, blogs and parenting websites are filled with tips on how to spend time with the kids to help with their studies. For most of us, we know this is easier said than done. With the busy lives we have, and the multiple functions we handle with respect to our different roles, it might be quite a difficult objective, trying to engage our kids in their studies.

Should I Help My Kids With Their Assignments?

If your children struggle with their homework do you help them or let them figure things out on their own? Psychology and education research suggests that it depends on how you become involved as a parent. When the children feel like homework has value and complete it on their own, it seems more interesting and therefore leads to greater achievement.

What Is the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program?

The non-profit educational foundation, International Baccalaureate, (IB) is growing popular with time. It projects four highly favored international education programmes that help the students to develop intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills required in taking responsible action in the future. In IB recommended schools, students are taught to make the world more than just a peaceful place to live.

5 Tips To Help Parents Improve Their Children’s Academic Performance

By Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam

Parental involvement plays a huge role in improving the child’s academic potential. This involvement goes beyond just supervising homework, it requires proper revision, listening and even probing. It is no secret that parents are important contributors to the formation and maturation of a child’s character, confidence, creativity and discipline. These virtues add to the child’s academic and individual well-being.

Academic Reward Opportunity For School Children of Enugu Parents In MD/DC/VA

The Enugu State Association of Washington DC wishes to formally recognize the  academic efforts of children born to Enugu State indigenes that are living in the Washington DC metro area (DC, MD, VA). To this end, entries are being solicited for candidates who meet the eligibility criteria for the Enugu State Academic Recognition Ceremony which will hold on Saturday, June 20th, 2015.

This Award Recognition Ceremony will honor school-age children that excelled in Academics in the Spring, 2015 semester, and recent high school graduates that will be heading off to college in Fall, 2015.

Aliko Dangote Attends Daughter's Graduation With Femi Otedola, Take Fan Photos

Coventry University, one of the top UK universities favored by Nigerians held their convocation for MBA and MSc graduating students yesterday and Aliko Dangote's daughter, was one of them. The married daughter of the cement billionaire, Mariya Dantata, was celebrated by her father, his friend and business partner, Femi Otedola along with the rest of her family and friends.

Femi Otedola and Aliko Dangote were later seen around the campus and were very gracious as they took photos with their fans in the school, some of whom were also graduating. Photos below...

Student Loses Sight in One Eye after SLAP by School Official

A 14 year old SS2 student of Bishop Philips Academy, a secondary school in Ibadan, Oyo State has reportedly developed a major eye condition requiring surgery after she was slapped by the secretary of the school principal. She narrated her sad story to the Sunday Tribute;

“On Thursday, January 29, students were having an Agriculture class, so those of us offering Food and Nutrition left the class and three of us went to stay in one of the rooms in the building.

Middle School Teacher Caught on Tape Threatening to Show Pupils His Long D-ck

A middle school teacher was only put on a paid administrative leave after he was caught on tape angrily ranting at a class of 12 and 13 year olds using several swear and cuss words. Bizarrely also, he referenced the size of his p*nis and threatened to show it to the children.

A 12-year-old student recorded the seven-minute tirade and played it back to her mother. The outraged mom shared it with the press after she claimed the principal of the affected school refused to do anything about the incident. She had to make the tape public and go to the school district before the man was even suspended.

Nigerian Prodigy Becomes Youngest UK University Math Student At 10-Years-Old

A Nigerian girl aged 10 has become one of the UK’s youngest university students after starting a degree at the Open University. Esther Okade, from Walsall, is finding time between playing with her dolls to study a maths degree after being home schooled by her Nigerian born mother, Efe Okade.

According to Mirror UK: The numbers whizz became an undergraduate three weeks ago and is already nailing the subject – scoring 100 percent on a recent test. The home-schooled youngster’s incredible grasp of calculations seemingly runs in the family as her six-year-old brother Isaiah is already taking an A-level in maths.

Mom Arrested After She Beat Daughter for Failing In School & Made Her Wear Embarrassing T-Shirt

A Florida-based mom, 30-year-old Melany Joyce Alexander, has been arrested for child abuse after she beat her middle school daughter for getting all Fs in her classes. The mom beat her daughter with a metal-studded belt, and also made her wear an embarrassing t-shirt announcing her failure.

Above is a photo of the front of the t-shirt she forced her child to wear to school. Check out the back, and a photo of the woman below...

Humans Of New York Blogger Raises Almost $1Million For School Kids To Visit Harvard

An inner city kid talking to, and allowing his photo to be taken and shared by Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York had led to something amazing. The teenager opened up about his Principal Ms Lopez being his greatest influence and talked about the wonderful things she was doing for Mott Halls Bridges Academy.

The photographer decided to make a call to his HONY followers to fund children in this school to pay a visit to Harvard as a way to expose them to better opportunities and reward the principal. The fundraiser started on 23 January, and as today, they have raised almost $1 Million in less than a week!

More Than 130 Dead After Taliban Attack Pakistani School Kill Over 100 Children [Photos]

A candle light vigil in Islamabad, for the victims of the school attack in Pesharwar Photograph: Anjum Naveed/AP

More than 130 people, and over 100 of them children, have been killed in a Pakistani Taliban attack at an army school in Peshawar, according to local officials.

Six or more attackers, dressed in army uniform, mounted the assault on the school for the children of army personnel shortly after 11am. Hundreds were in the school at the time, the Guardian reports.

The attackers, some of them wearing suicide vests, managed to get into the school from the roof of a van parked next to a wall that abuts a graveyard, according to local police. They began firing at random. Another blew himself up as security guards approached.

Did New York High Schooler Mohammed Islam Really Make $72M From The Stock Market?

Mohammed Islam, a 17-year-old from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, was reported to have made a whopping $72 million on the stock market, often skipping his lunch break to play the market. Now that figure is being widely disputed!

While many agree that Islam is ahead of his time in the stock market, they also agree that the $72 million total is a hyped number, according to those familiar with the teenager's story

BREAKING: Police In Oregon Say Three Shot At Portland High School

A shooter wounded two boys and a girl outside an alternative high school Friday in what may be a gang-related attack, Portland police said.

The victims are believed to be students at Rosemary Anderson High School, which serves about 190 at-risk students, Sgt. Pete Simpson said. The three were conscious and breathing when they were taken to the hospital, he said.

The shooting was reported after noon and happened at a corner outside the school, Simpson said. The assailant fled, and the students ran back to the school for help, he said.

Pupils Forced to Eat Teacher’s Semen Cookies Get $140 Million From LA School District

An LA court has mandated the school district to pay victims $140 million settlement in a case involving a third-grade teacher who blindfolded his students and forced them to eat cookies made with his semen.

Mark Berndt, 63, had been a teacher with the L.A. Unified School District for 30 years when his behavior was finally exposed in 2012. A 19-year-old photo pharmacy clerk called police after the teacher brought in "bondage-style photos" of blindfolded kids.