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4 Things Every Child Needs Before Breakfast: A very good article that helps to start our day on the right foot.

How Adding Math to a Child's Home Routine Can Advance Achievement
A good article that introduces the idea of adding math to a child's daily routine by using an app to increase their math abilities.

Fun And Free Summer Learning Resources
This article lists items for maintaining skills over the summer.

Math is more than one plus one
By: Neil Dempsey 
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/math-is-more-than-one-plus-one-305644521.html

​Step-by-Step Tips to Set Up Your Kid's iPhone
​Learn how to set a passcode, block apps, share media, and more.By Christine Elgersma

Mindset by Carol Dweck
Excerpt taken from 
http://community.mindsetworks.com/
What is a growth mindset?
Discovered by Stanford Professor Carol Dweck, Ph.D., a growth mindset is the belief that we can develop our abilities, including our intelligence, which is our ability to think. It is distinguished from a fixed mindset, which is the belief that abilities can't change, such as thinking that some people can't improve in math, creativity, writing, relationship-building, leadership, sports, and the like.

Queen Bees and Wannabes
by Rosalind Wiseman
Helping your daughter survive cliques, gossip, boyfriends and other realities of adolescence.
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The Organized Student by Donna Goldberg