Setting a Short Term Goal with Your Child
Setting-a-short-term-goal-with-your-child. Our founder Candice reviews how to effectively set short-term goals with your child that are achievable in a day or a week.
Q&A with Founder Candice Lapin: When to Study for the ERB and the ISEE
When-to-study-for-isee-erb. With the ERB and ISEE coming up, it’s time to start getting organized for those tests.
Three Ways to Make Your Home Study Friendly
Three-ways-to-make-your-home-study-friendly. There are several ways to make the whole house study friendly for your student.
Top Reasons Why Reading is Important
The-importance-of-reading. Top Reasons Why Reading is Important
HOW TO: Get Your Child Ready for the School Year
Get-your-child-ready-for-the-school-year. Candice Lapin gives you her top three tips on what to buy to prepare for the school year.
Note-Taking: Why and How?
Note-taking-why-and-how. You’d be shocked at the number of students who enter a new school not understanding why or how to take notes. Luckily, here we are to answer both questions.
What Makes a Good Goal?
What-makes-a-good-goal. Goal-setting is one of the most important skills to develop. But what makes a good goal?
Q&A with Samantha Mchammel
Samantha is a leading tutor at The Ladder Method. She specializes in helping children in academic distress get organized!
The Top Benefits of Exercise and Learning
Studying-and-exercise-why-and-how. Exercise is linked to higher achievement in school. Why and how?
The Right Types of Brain Breaks
The-right-types-of-study-breaks. It’s important to take breaks during study blocks. What kind of breaks should you take?
Sex, Social Media and Teens with ADHD: How to Avoid the Risks
Sex-social-media-and-teens-risks. By identifying these three risky areas, parents can avoid these pitfalls.
The Three Characteristics of a Good Study Spot
the-three-characteristics-of-a-good-study-spot. A good study spot improves performance. Here’s what a good study spot looks like!
Studying and Technology: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Technology-studying-the-good-bad-and-ugly. Here are some technologies to watch out for when studying, and some that can be helpful!
Three Tips for Finals Morning
Three-tips-for-finals-morning. You’ve done the studying, you’ve made the flashcards, what else can you do to prepare?
Five Tips for Surviving Finals Season
Five-tips-for-surviving-finals-season. Here are five tips for beating the stress and keeping your finals merry and bright.
Top 5 Tips for Helping Your Child With their ADHD
Five-tips-for-helping-your-child-with-their-adhd. Here are five tips for supporting your child with their ADHD, and yourself as well.
The Top 5 Foods to Improve Focus in Your Kids & Teens
Top-five-foods-to-improve-focus-child. You are what you eat. So often people tell us that but understanding what that means when you head to the grocery store or prepare your child’s lunch is another thing…
8th Grade: Social Media and Your Teen
8th-grade-social-media-and-your-teen. Broaching the topic of social media usage and self-image with our teens is often challenging—talking about it in a vacuum, even more so. Pop culture films, such as Bo Burnham’s 8th Grade, shed some light on real issues affecting our teens.
Why We Teach Our Kids Failure Is Good!
Why-we-should-teach-our-kids-failure-is-good. In our increasing culture of install-perfect lives, there has begun a trend towards creating a perfect appearance. But, it’s driving kids into major stress. There doesn't seem to be any room for failure? Or mistakes?
Building Good Study Habits Takes Longer than 21 Days
Building-good-habits-takes-longer-than-21-days. Many parents come to this company wondering how long tutoring and coaching should take before their child becomes an A student.
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