While teacher-parents acknowledge that parenthood brings new job-related challenges, some point out that schools could ...

Serving as assistant principal at a K–12 charter school this past year, I fielded more parental complaints than ever before in my 10 years of teaching and administration. For any bad grade, parents ...

It can be incredibly challenging for teachers to deal with difficult or disengaged parents. Teachers often have the best intentions with their students, but when parents aren’t supportive or involved, ...

Parents usually have their own views for how they wish to raise their children. Some choose to rarely ever discipline their kids and always believe their child is right. And while everyone has their ...

A person with too rigid boundaries trusts no one, avoids close relationships, does not ask for help, is protective of ...

1."I've worked with kids in a variety of settings (i.e. classroom and private childcare), and one of the biggest 'this is gonna be rough' red flags for me is any conversation in which a parent starts ...

Imagine going in to meet your boss — for the first time — on the occasion of your performance review. They know a lot about you, but you have no idea how much of it is based in reality, because all of ...

The communication between the school and the home is a potent stimulus to the academic achievement and social-emotional ...

Middle school marks the transition from late childhood to early adolescence. Developmental psychologist Erik Erikson describes the transition as a shift from the Industry vs. Inferiority stage (ages 6 ...