Month Archive - 2009 March
Is Your Family Over-Scheduled?
March 27, 2009 How to schedule your family out of the stress. Busy schedules can be fun—keeping the pace hectic can be enjoyable for some; it can even be a sort of status symbol. But for most families, being overscheduled is simply hectic and downright stressful. Whether it is running from one errand ... more
Too Busy for School?
March 20, 2009 Is your family overscheduled? Sometimes it seems like time really isn’t on our side. Especially if you have the typical busy schedule of most families. From school to chores to soccer and dance practice to socializing and homework, sometimes it seems like kids’ days are so jammed packed that there ... more
Are First Year University Students Ill Prepared For University?
March 12, 2009 Listen to most university professors in the United States and Canada, and you’ll hear the complaint about poorly prepared first-year students. In Canada, University of Western Ontario Professors James Cote and Anton Allahar show that students today get higher marks for unworthy performance. “Today’s college freshmen continue to be academically ... more
High School Students Get Organized! Using A Master Schedule
March 4, 2009 In previous posts, we’ve looked at how time is one of the biggest issues facing high school students these days. Today, we’ll look at just one of the many ways that students can get their time management issues under wraps and get organized (which is a big step toward taking ... more
