ZUI.com

Last night while I was watching mind numbing television after the kids went to sleep I saw a commercial for Zui.com. Now normally I don't pay too much attention to commercials. They are just noise but this one caught my attention because it was for an educational website. I got on and it was definitely not what I expected. I thought it would be another game site for kids but it's not. It's a site that offers collections of games on any subject. Kind of like Google. You type in what you want to learn about and then everything they have comes up.

CNN article

I just read this CNN article that one of my friends posted on Facebook. Wow is all I can say. It's sad but true. I posted the article in red, then I'll tell you what I think.

Get involved!!!

I recently attended a back to school lesson put on by my church. This was a how to get started with the new school year class. WOW. Boy was it amazing. I took notes to share.

Educating a child is like a table with 3 legs. All three legs need to be there or it will fail. inorder for a child to succeed they need supportive and active parents, they need to be interested in learning, and then there is the teacher. I have seen it time and time again where the teacher is blamed for the child not succeeding. Remember the teacher is only 1/3 of the equation. There could be a few problems like a learning disability with the child. In my experience it has been the parents lack of support in the child's education.

Job Chart

I just found this neat FREE job chart site. It's called myjobchart.com. I believe it is important to teach kids to be responsible. My kids are very young but that doesn't mean they aren't expected to help out around the house.

This use to be a HUGE battle that was usually followed by a fit before the job was even started. Once the job was started it was play time and take as long as you can before completing the job. That was until I found this site while I was blogstocking. I don't remember which blog talked about this site but I'm glad they mentioned it.

ABC Mouse - for members

We recently got to review the portion of ABC Mouse that you can subscribe to. WOW. It was neat. I don't think my kids have played any of their other on-line games since. My son says "I think it's good and I want to play it."

Back to School

It's back to school time. I can't believe it's time fall ready. Summer just flew by. This means back to school shopping time. I like to start early and get the deals but you never know what the teachers are going to need until back to school night or the first day of school. Here are a few suggestions.

Charter School vs. Public School

I posted this as my very first post but I didn't have many readers then and wanted to share it again. I have seen many parents wonder what is the best school situation for their child a charter school or just public school. I have worked at 1 public school and 2 different charter schools so here's the break down.