Earnest Parenting.com logo

Encouraging Heroes. You can be one too.

Building a Better Student: The Beautiful Deadline

by | Nov 12, 2013 | Education

Want to get more kids into reading? Turn them on to writing. Writers are readers. And one of the best tools used to shape a person into a writer is the deadline. It’s why I’m a fan of National Novel Writing Month, known affectionately by its abbreviation: NaNoWriMo....

Building a Better Student: It’s Not About the IQ

by | Nov 5, 2013 | Education

Have you ever taken an IQ test? I did it once when I enrolled for college, and again many years later. You find questions such as “what number comes next in this sequence?” and “which word is not like the others?” I’m sure the test has value in some capacity, but I...

Making the Most of Educational Games

by | Nov 5, 2013 | Education

With rapidly growing support for using educational games as learning tools at home and in the classroom, the gaming industry has seen a boom in the demand for high quality educational games. Catering to this demand, there has been a great increase in the number of...