Four Letter Words: The Weekly Mentor

At the beginning of the year I wrote two articles suggesting that the most important thing parents can do during the winter months to help their kids' education was to read important books as a family in the evenings (or in classrooms, during the afternoons).

For parents and teachers in the Southern Hemisphere, now is the time to read and apply those articles!

As the weather warms in the Northern Hemisphere, it is time for a shift.

Family reading is a great year-round project, but the focus in summer weather turns to TJEd's four-letter words.

These words include WORK, PLAY, READ, TALK and LOVE.

There are few things that teach the important lessons of Core Phase as well as working, playing and reading together as a family.

These are all opportunities to show and share love with each child.

And note that everyone is always in Core Phase--we don't ever graduate from a phase, we just add new ones.

That said, it's important to remember that telling our children to "Go work," "Go play," or "Go read," doesn't do the job...

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