Raffi Bandarian
4 Steps to Winning Homework Battles
For many parents, the school year creates challenges around routines, especially homework completion. When school gets under way, parents...
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Raffi Bandarian
Aug 26, 20173 min read
Helping Kids Succeed Early On
Recently, my son pointed out “pelicans have pouches like koalas, kangaroos, and wallabies” as I was reading Little Kids: First Big Book...
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Raffi Bandarian
Aug 12, 20172 min read
A Suite of Apps with Endless Learning Opportunities for Kids
Children exposed to the fundamentals needed for school readiness are primed to benefit from classroom instruction. Can children absorb...
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Raffi Bandarian
Jul 29, 20172 min read
5 Reasons to Read to Your Child at Home
Reading to your child has always been encouraged. It’s now understood to be more important than ever to read aloud to children. Parents...
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Raffi Bandarian
Jul 8, 20173 min read
Building Positive Thinking with Kids
Stress is up in America. According to the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.), the overall stress levels among Americans...
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Raffi Bandarian
Jul 1, 20171 min read
4 Signs Your Child is Stressed
One of the most helpful things a parent can do is to be available to their child. Children who have parents to talk to about their...
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Raffi Bandarian
Jun 17, 20173 min read
Top 4 Ways to Help Kids Label Emotions
Once kids learn to label their feelings, they are more in command of their thoughts, bodies, and, in turn, actions.
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Raffi Bandarian
Jun 3, 20171 min read
What Studies Say About Reading Success
Children spend a lot of time and energy developing the wiring in their brains to become readers. Studies have found preschoolers who...
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Raffi Bandarian
May 29, 20171 min read
Best App for Boosting Executive Skills
My favorite is Kiko’s Thinking Time. Developed to boost memory, thinking, reasoning, and problem solving, Kiko's delivers.
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Raffi Bandarian
Apr 30, 20172 min read
2 Steps to Positive Parenting
The point of the time-out is to offer both the parent and child an opportunity to cool-down.
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Raffi Bandarian
Apr 15, 20172 min read
The Best App for Visual Learning
One way to help students develop imaging skills is to use technology designed to enhance visualization.
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Raffi Bandarian
Apr 1, 20174 min read
Early Intervention for Dyslexia
The Human Genome Project is continually mapping the sequence of genes responsible for everything that has been linked with genetic...
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Raffi Bandarian
Mar 18, 20173 min read
3 Benefits of Visual Imaging
Albert Einstein once said, “If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.” And it turns out that this is a critical concept about how we...
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Raffi Bandarian
Mar 11, 20172 min read
5 Take-Aways for Early Intervention
Early identification is the first step to helping children. Parents who intervene early on help their child by finding the right support.
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Raffi Bandarian
Mar 4, 20172 min read
4 Benefits of Encouraging Play at Home
Creative play allows kids to develop important executive functioning skills, like impulse control.
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Raffi Bandarian
Feb 26, 20172 min read
3 Steps to Raising Happy Kids
If a child is given adequate attention, they tend to show their appreciation by not acting out or seeking negative attention.
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Raffi Bandarian
Feb 18, 20173 min read
It Takes a Village With Positive Mindsets to Raise a Child
The needs of children with learning disabilities mandate that parents, teachers, and all other professionals possess a set of positive...
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Raffi Bandarian
Feb 10, 20172 min read
The End of Hunting and Pecking
A multi-sensory teaching method, called Diana Hanbury King Typing, introduces finger-key positions. Students learn to type using the sequenc
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