education
Helping Your Child Succeed In School
The school year is well underway, your children are settled in their classes and have learned quite a bit in the last month...so now's the time when most if not all kids are facing the reality of...TESTS!
Children can be nervous about tests and you can be equally nervous for them! You may want to take the test for them, of course that's not possible.
But there are some ways you can help your kids do the best they can on every test.
PROVIDE THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENT:
Teaching Your Children About Credit Cards
Young Children Do Not Understand the Concept of Credit Cards
It’s the 21st century, and most of the kids living in the United States are constantly watching their parents put a cute little plastic card into an automated teller machine and seeing the machine instantly spit out a wad of cash. It’s like magic! A machine that gives money whenever anybody wants it!
Working to meet the educational needs of orphans in Kenya
During the summer of 2007 I spent 6 weeks in Kenya doing field work for Global Education Fund, a non-profit that meets the educational needs of orphaned children. Below are excerpts from some emails that describe some of my experiences in the slum areas of Nairobi. We are now providing scholarships, establishing libraries and supplying textbooks to support many of the orphaned kids I met:
June 2007:
