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As soon as I hear the word fail comes into my mind school days. When it was very common to think and relate the failure with repeating a year and become a failure. Now being a mom and with three kids at school, I feel very closely the importance of not repeating a school year.

As a mother it is also important to teach them that failure is not what determines who we are or where we can go. While it is true a failure can get our attention and stop us, what matters is what we do with that failure? I mean, we can fix it and learn, or find someone or something to blame.

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read. –Marilyn Jager Adams . Around 8 years ago, we started reading to our Sigue leyendo ⇒

But, if kids are so curious and want to know everything, then why some of them do not have the same curiosity when it comes to studying in school and do their homework at home? The answer that my kids have given me is that all this is BORING!!

Then, what can we do so our kids want to learn?

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.  –Oprah Winfrey.   As I mentioned in the previous article, my oldest son and I made ​​a contract to study, which worked great, but Sigue leyendo ⇒

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. –H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Being a mother has taught me so many things and one of them is that the best way to be a better mother tomorrow is to Sigue leyendo ⇒

The message was:  Skills and achievement come through commitment and effort.  -Carol S. Dweck, Ph. D. A couple of months ago we talked about Dr. Ginott’s quote in his book Between Parent & Teenager that says: «Describe, don’t evaluate. Deal Sigue leyendo ⇒

I’m very exited because my first short story Keep Going! Modeling the success of Michael Jordan was evaluated positively in both versions, i.e. in English and Spanish. In the Spanish version: Received a 5 Star reviews The review talk about Sigue leyendo ⇒

Success is not final, failure is no fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill   If someone at some point has told you that all children learn differently, I can say by my own experience it’s Sigue leyendo ⇒

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. Paulo Coelho Children can teach us Sigue leyendo ⇒

There is nothing more Important than a good, safe, secure home. Rosalynn Carter In the last article ‘The Terrible Two, What can we do?’ We talked about the importance of having a childproof home, the idea was that by having Sigue leyendo ⇒