How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child’s Garden of Verses I love this stanza from Stevenson’s poem; it brings memories of pumping so high I felt I was…
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge,” —words penned by Scottish Writer, Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). Beautiful words, kind words, but is a “loving heart” truly the key to all learning? And if it is, then shouldn’t it be the first lesson we teach our children? And so it is: mother’s tender kiss, father’s…
You are guided at every step. “I am very excited about the help I received with my daughter’s home study program at Applied Scholastics Online Academy. Earlier we had gotten to a point where she was no longer willing to read from her book. I tried many different things with her, but she would not…
The term self-esteem is batted around in every educational arena in the nation. Teachers are taught a child’s happiness depends on it and lack of it causes bullying, disrespect and even violence. If self-esteem is of such great consequence, what-is this sought after quality anyway? The word self-esteem was coined in 1890 by psychologist William…
Why make a New Year’s resolution? Making resolutions at the start of the year exemplifies Man’s desire to improve conditions in life. Setting a specific goal and seeing it through dates back to Babylonian times about 4,000 years ago. Indeed, it may be mankind’s longest-lived tradition. A persistence founded on the idea that a resolution…