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How to Protect Your Home When You Are Going Away
Going out Even if you are only out for a few hours, the important thing is to make sure your home never looks empty. Do not advertise the fact that…
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How to Set up Rules and Profile for ADHD Pupils in the Classroom
Try keeping a collaborative profile to reflect the pupil's academic skills in addition to personal interests, qualities and achievements. It is important that an equal number of positives and negatives…
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How to Manage ADHD Children with Positive Thinking
As a teacher of a child with ADHD it is easy to get caught up in the daily grind of focusing on all the child's problems, especially when they appear…
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How to Manage a Child with ADHD with Positive School Ethos
The overall Christian Academy school ethos is crucial to the success of managing a child with ADHD - often only slight changes of approach make a huge difference both to…
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How to Manage a Child with ADHD – Having a Coach or Mentor
Hiring life coaching is a very important strategy in managing a child with ADHD. This person could be another teacher, an older pupil, or possibly someone from outside the school environment.…
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How to Make Your Home Safe for Elderly People
About half the fatal accidents in the home happen to those over the age of sixty-five. With many elderly people the problem is how slowly and tactfully to change their…
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How to Make Handwriting More Fun for Children with ADHD
If the child with ADHD is experiencing handwriting problems or is finding handwriting boring, there are a number of creative solutions you could employ: Allow more space - when making…
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How to Help Your Child Make Friends
Children don't automatically know how to make friends. In fact, as rather self-centered beings with a strong "mine!" orientation, they usually find that making friends can be tough work! Because…
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How to Help Your Child Develop Decision Making Skills
One of the most important skills your child will ever acquire is the ability to make sound decisions. Making decisions with care and integrity may well be the foremost skill…
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How to Help Your ADHD Child to Deal with Short-Term Memory Problems
Short-term memory problems, over and above concentration difficulties, often improve with the use of medication. However, if such difficulties persist despite the child being on medication, it may sometimes indicate…
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How to Improve Your Presentation Skills
Effective public relations demands first-rate communication skills, whether one-to-one, or one to 100. Learn to prepare your presentations with care, conquer your nerves, and appraise your performance honestly after the…
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How to Discipline Your Children When They Resist Change
"No! Mommy do it!" your son shrieks as your husband tries to give him a bath, a job he says is "Mommy's"! Change can be hard for people, but it's…
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How to Discipline Your Children When They Resist Car Seats
Car seats and seat belts are the number one enemy of millions of freedom-loving preschoolers. These adventurous spirits don't understand why they must be strapped down, but they can understand…
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How to Discipline Your Children When They Resist Bedtime
Active, energetic preschoolers often do anything to avoid sleep. They turn bedtime or naptime into chase time, crying time, or finding-another-book-to-read time to postpone the dreaded bed. No matter what…
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How to Discipline Your Children When They Pretend to Use Weapons
Many moms and dads lament the fact that little boys, in particular, love to turn every object they touch into a weapon, from baseball bats to carrots, often imitating what…
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How to Discipline Your Children When They Are Whining
Just as adults occasionally find themselves in a bad mood for no apparent reason, preschoolers are sometimes whiny and cranky even though their physical needs have been met. This behavior…
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How to Discipline Your Children When They Are Not Following Directions
Preschoolers love to test whether their parents' warnings will be enforced, how far rules can be stretched, and how closely directions must be followed. Give your child consistent results for…
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How to Discipline Your Child About Lying
Toddlers and preschoolers live in an interesting world where fantasy and reality mix. They enjoy cartoons, pretend play, Santa Claus, wicked witches, flying capes, make-believe on demand, and so on.…
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How to Develop Your Child’s Self-Esteem with The Strength of Blessing
A major step in your child's development of self-esteem will come when your child is able to spontaneously and generously compliment, "bless" or show appreciation for another person. That kind…
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How to Discipline Your Children When They Are Messiness
Little people make big messes, and unfortunately for orderly parents, small children are almost always oblivious to their self-made clutter. Knowing that your child isn't deliberately messy but simply unaware…