Your Child's School

Is retention is the best way to educate a child?

Something is wrong when a child starts having stomach pains in response to the stress of schoolwork.

Our expert questions a school counselor's recommendation of retention for a fourth-grader.

The best way to help an unmotivated child is to find out why he isn't motivated.

Find tips on how to deal with a teacher who may be verbally abusing her class.

There are many reasons why good students do poorly on standardized tests.

It's quite normal for a bad experience to have effects on classroom rules, but one needs to be rational about the actual risks faced.

The shaming approach will never inspire a child to greater academic achievement.

Read an expert's opinion on retaining children for non-academic reasons.

Forcing kids to participate in extracurricular activities is unfair.

What can you do when your spouse makes unrealistic study and homework rules for the kids?

A mother wants to know what she can do to get her son motivated.

Learn more about charter schools.

Parents who make unrealistic demands of their kids risk seeing their kids' mental, emotional and physical well-being severely compromised.

Discovering why your child doesn't care about school is the first step in helping him succeed.

A mother fears that her son will become Catholic is he remains at a parochial school.

An expert cautions parents not to rush to make a decision about high school for their ten-year-old son.

Detect why a fourth-grader might give up on schoolwork.