by Ari Yares | Sep 23, 2018 | Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits
Feeling the same anxiety about homework that your children have? Believe it or not, with a little help, you can get your kids to develop healthy and helpful homework habits. Resources Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits: The Homework Box Multitasking: Homework Help or...
by Ari Yares | Aug 14, 2018 | The Innovative Dad Blog
The back to school sales started in July, but for most of the United States, students are heading back to their classroom within the next few weeks. Transitioning from the loose routines of summer to the structure of the school year can be tricky for families. Often,...
by Ari Yares | Apr 30, 2018 | Parenting Strategies to Kid Habits
Some of us have fond memories of spelling bees. Some of us don’t. Spelling, no matter how we feel about it, is critical to successful writing which is why it is still a part of writing instruction in school. Even with spell check, we still need to know a lot of...
by Ari Yares | Mar 7, 2018 | The Innovative Dad Blog
True confession. I’ve got two screens at work and at home. More often than not, I’ve got something up on the second screen that is only tangentially connected to the work that I’m doing. That second screen might have Facebook or my Gmail account open or...
by Ari Yares | Oct 7, 2016 | 21st Century Learning
Imagine if you could encourage literacy simply by having a family visit the grocery store? That’s the idea behind a recent story covered by NPR. It shared the results of a small study about a placing signs in grocery stores to encourage conversations between...