School and Learning

Learn how to detect signs of a learning disability in your teenager.

Learn the causes of underachievement in children, and find out how to correct it.

Learn how you can help your teen with a daunting summer reading list or a tough assignment.

Find tips and homework help to improve your teens grades.

Read tips on paying back student loans in a timely matter -- without going broke.

Construct gongs, tambourines, marimbas, and chimes with these instructions.

You can make different types of rattles -- meant for children of all ages -- with these easy ideas.

You and your child will have fun building a terrarium, with help from this step-by-step guide.

Make springtime last all year long with pressed flowers. You and your kids will have fun collecting and pressing them.

Consult this list of essential tools before starting any project that uses wood.

Learn how to make the transition after college graduation, without feeling overwhelmed.

Here are some nontraditional ways you can save for your child's college education.

College education for your children is a heavy but necessary expense. If you start saving sooner rather than later, you'll be in better financial shape when your child is ready to start college.

Learn about the history of the African-American practice of creating new names.

Learn how to help your child with homework and school assignments.

Place an object in a bag and ask your child to guess what the object is by feeling the bag.

Experiment with static electricity so that you can explain to your child how and why it works.

This activity can be done inside or outside. Concentrate on listening to all the sounds around you.