Happy New Year! May 2009 be the year of growth in every area of your life and in the lives of those whom you cherish!
Thank you very much from my heart for your continue support!
During last several weeks, “Parenting Blog” discussed the following topics and we want to share with all of you.
“How Parents and Children of Immigrant Families Inherit Their Family Values to Take the Advantage of Their Strength? ”
“Take in the essence and throw away the dross”
We mentioned that for new immigrants, they need follow the rule, “Do in Rome as Rome does” in the previous post, however, we still think that in the same time, immigrants should stick to the principle, which is “take in the essence and throw away the dross”. Namely, try to fit in without selling out. While we all struggle with “fitting in” for the entirety of our lives, we do have our own believes and principles.
“ How to Help Immigrant Children to Achieve?”
In an ideal world, the objectives and foundational system of education programs should be uniquely matched to the demographics, interests and motivations of each child, which could be designed to suit his or her skills, learning styles, personalities, developmental concerns and cultural heritage. But in reality, educators are constrained by the resources and can not create individualized curricula that address the widely divergent needs of the students adequately. For new immigrant students, they have much more challenge to achieve in their new schools.
http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2009/01/how-to-help-immigrant-children-to-achieve/
“Focus on Early Childhood Education”
Parents, educators, researchers, and policymakers are all becoming increasingly aware of the role that high-quality early childhood education plays in the success of students not only in the elementary grades, but throughout their lives. What are the effective ways of early childhood education? How parents can choose a high-quality preschool and kindergarten for their child? How parents can help on educating their young children?
http://www.parents-and-kids.com/blog/en/2009/01/focus-on-early-childhood-education/
Welcome your comments!
In “Parents Place”, we discussed eBook, which is one of the hottest topics on the Internet these days because of a lot of benefits.
“Three Key Factors for a Good eBook”
While self-publishing is made possible by the availability of cheap tools and widespread Internet access, there is the huge glut of poorly written e-books that has been flooding the market, and it can be hard to find anything worth reading. E-book readers will have to do some digging to find quality stuff with some patience these days.
http://www.parents-and-kids.com/article/en/internet-based-business/51
Encourage kids to start early and build a good writing habit leading to success!
At “Kids Place”, a kid is talking about environmental problem, serious topic …
http://www.parents-and-kids.com/writing/en/high-school-student/23
In order to help high school students, we did some research and recommend some books for PSAT/SAT/ACT preparation at “Great Stuff”.
http://www.parents-and-kids.com/stuff/en/category/psat-sat-act-books/
At “Ask & Answer of Forum”,
A question is asked, which is “How can I get my kid to eat?” at
http://www.parents-and-kids.com/forum/en/raising-kids/73
Welcome you join the discussion and share your experience with us.
If you want to be inspired and want to inspire your kids, check out our weekly updated well selected world famous “Quotes, Proverbs, Adages” at
http://www.parents-and-kids.com/quotes/en/
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Cana
parents-and-kids.com
Healthy, Happy, Successful
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