How Sleep Impacts Learning

We all know that sleep plays a critical role in our bodies’ ability to function properly. This is especially true for children and adolescents, whose brains and bodies have not yet fully developed. Getting enough high-quality sleep is a key factor in healthy growth and development. This means that sleep is uninterrupted by external stimuli […]
Maintaining Structure in a Time of Chaos

When things are hectic, kids feel it. Sometimes it manifests in obvious ways and sometimes they internalize it. Whether the chaos is due to a particularly busy or stressful time of year, or whether it’s due to extenuating life circumstances, there are a few key habits to not lose sight of. Because kids (and humans […]
Managing Schedules and Creating Structure for Kids

For many of us, it is hard to appreciate the complexity of creating an effective schedule. We have an approximate idea of how long tasks should take given our life experience, we can intuit the best order in which to tackle the tasks on our to do list, and we know how to use scheduling […]