Gwyn Schneck, MEd, has a unique set of skills allowing her to guide students into promising opportunities and outcomes Read More
Put a Rock in Your Kid’s Backpack
As a new school year kicks off, I got to thinking. If a parent could only put one thing into their kid’s backpack for the new school year, what would it be? New clothes? New shoes? A new lunchbox? A new calculator? All those things are good and needed, but I was thinking of something a little more ‘down to earth’—a rock. I am not very physically coordinated. On a scale of 1-10 if an Olympic athlete is a 10, I’d be a .5 on the scale of physical coordination awe...
Give Your Kid a Rock, Episode 2
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Getting to Know Me, Episode 1
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Make A Summer Memory
As my husband proclaimed, “Make a memory!” the children and I burst into laughter. There we all stood each at a different pine tree, in the middle of the Tonto National Forest, with our faces pressed to the trunk of the tree. We smelled the pine tree to see if it smelled like vanilla ice cream, and it did! We signed up for the guided hike with Ranger Bob (really his name) not knowing it would be so informative and entertaining! Our children, ages six and nine, loved every moment. They loved ...
Help! What Can My Teen Do This Summer?
“Help!” The cry of parents can be heard across the country as summer approaches. First everyone has to calm down and get a grip. Yes, your kids are out of school for a break, but that doesn’t mean they must be lying around your house watching TV, playing computer games, or using their cell phone’s entire data plan. Actually this fear can be turned into a very good question: “What can my teen do this summer?” The key to this question is the word “can”. There are a l...
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