Success without Stress
Helping your children build a strong academic foundation from birth through college.Parenting QA: Addressing Sibling Rivalry at the Source
Q: I have two sons, aged 3 and 5. While the older boy clearly loves his younger brother, he also resents having to share his toys with him. When he has friends over, they don’t want to let their younger brother play with them. He also gets frustrated that his little...
Preparing for the NY State Tests as a Family
It’s everybody’s (least) favorite time of year again! Students, parents, and teachers alike are starting to feel the pressure of the looming ELA/Math NY State Tests. First offered to students in grade 3, they become mandatory from grades 4-8. Let’s face it-...
Q&A: Overcoming Video Game Addiction
Q: My 10 year old son spends most of his time in his room, playing video games. It’s a battle to get him to do homework, or even to come out and socialize. When we try taking away his console, he mopes around all day. He never used to be like this. How can I get my...
Gifted and Talented: Preparing for Verbal Comprehension (Following Directions)
Following Directions is the most abstract section of the OLSAT. The section is designed to assess your child’s ability to listen to and critically evaluate a prompt. Questions tend to test awareness of spatial terms, such as “above” and “below,” and age-appropriate...
Science Experiments: Phase Changes
Understanding the main phases of matter (Solids, Liquids, and Gasses) and their phase transitions is a fundamental skill for any young student. Since it can be difficult to understand at first, we developed this experiment to help students visualize what's going on!...
Building Academic Confidence
School is a huge source of stress for many students. Expecting everybody to learn everything at exactly the same time and level of proficiency, quite frankly, isn’t a realistic goal. And as such, many students who aren’t quite ready to learn the coordinate plane in...
