In the first blog of this series, I mentioned that stepping up and advocating for our children provides a model for them of how to resolve problems. Ultimately, we want …
Being Your Child’s Advocate – Part 5: Everybody has a boss
In any large system like education, there are many layers of management, oversight, and accountability. In some ways, these layers can create burdens and obstacles to progress; but in other …
Being Your Child’s Advocate – Part 4: Make sure you know these seven truths
Often, I speak with parents who feel like they have no choices about their child’s education or that the school is doing something to their child instead of engaging in …
Being Your Child’s Advocate – Part 3: Don’t be afraid to lead
In the last blog post, I talked about building a positive working relationship between home and school [https://www.campkodiak.com/being-your-childs-advocate-2/]. Today I’m going to talk about the parent taking the lead in …
Being Your Child’s Advocate – Part 2: Becoming the right kind of dance partner
In the last post I talked about good advocacy being a bit like a dance. For any dance to work, the partners need to trust each other and coordinate their efforts …
Being Your Child’s Advocate – Part 1
Our children’s school lives seem to happen in a universe that is very separate from us. The social organization of having so many children together with relatively few adults is …
Kids Need More Than Just Being Back In School
Camp Kodiak has always been good at boosting up kids who felt let down by the social and academic challenges of school. These were the kids who didn’t get invited …
Danger Ahead: Compulsive Gaming and Media Recluses
(Chapter 6 from The Loving Push: How Parents and Professionals Can Help Spectrum Kids Become Successful Adults by Temple Grandin and Debra Moore, 2015) Video games are a controversial topic …
Camp Is A Place to Grow! Part 5: Self-Confidence and Personal Development
A few years ago, with funding from the Ontario Camps Association (OCA), researchers at the University of Waterloo set out to examine the outcomes of the Canadian summer camp experience …
Camp Is A Place to Grow! Part 4: Emotional Intelligence
A few years ago, with funding from the Ontario Camps Association (OCA), researchers at the University of Waterloo set out to examine the outcomes of the Canadian summer camp experience …
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