Author name: Devora Samet

When your child is doing all kinds of red behaviors all day, it is sometimes difficult to find something nice to say. It is even more challenging when it seems that your child is purposely trying to get you angry. However, you need to recognize that the reason he is trying to get you angry […]

“Leah” is a second grader in Bnos Sarah. Her family moved to America from Israel at the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year. The family is English speaking, so oral language is not an issue for Leah. Leah is academically gifted. Although she could not put ‘cvc’ words together when she arrived, she is already

Miriam, a junior-high student, helped me figure out all the steps that would need to be taken to organize her desk. Here is what we came up with… What school materials are lurking inside your desk? Is it a variety of books, a loose leaf binder, folders, pencils, a half-eaten bag of potato chips, stale

I’ve had the wonderful privilege and opportunity to observe many, many, children in their classrooms countless times. I’ve also noticed an oft-repeated pattern: The teacher complains that the student is very distractible. When the teacher tells the entire class to take out their math books, he doesn’t. When the teacher tells all students to turn

If your child needs to learn how to have an organized knapsack, the following are some of the skills he may need to learn. Typically, the disorganized knapsack features the red behaviors below, and your child might need to learn their green counterparts. ORGANIZED every paper has a home homework in homework folder supplies in

Call the special time, “Special time with mommy” or “Special daddy time.” Call it anything you wish, but give the “time” a name. It is not enough to just say “alright, now we’ll do something fun…” since the child will not appreciate it. Plan: Set a consistent time each week Anywhere between 15-30 minutes to

Below is a list of eating manners organized as reds and greens. Use the list as a guide for figuring out precisely which eating habits need to be taught. NON-MANNERS Eating with mouth open Nibbling Stuffing Mouth Messy face and fingers Sitting far from table Eating with fingers Picking with fingers out of a public

If you read the article on Immediate Re-practice, you might recall that Judy had a tendency to double-dip, yet warnings not to do it again didn’t seem to work. With mom’s instructions, Judy did an Immediate Re-practice and practiced right then and there how to stop herself from double-dipping via a one-time practice using self-control

Do you find yourself repeating questions before you finally get an answer? Do you sometimes wonder if your child or student suffers from selective hearing loss? Have you been told that your student has Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) and therefore might not understand what you are saying? Is that a reason why you keep