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Are your kids ready to go back to school? During these final weeks of summer, it’s important to adopt learning activities that will help your child build confidence, keep their mind stimulated, and ensure that your child is ready to return to the routine of the classroom experience. Research consistently shows that children who do not engage in any type of mental activity during the summer tend to lose up to a third of what they have learned during the academic year. If your child struggles with a specific subject, summer is a great opportunity to slow down and focus on the basics of that subject so they are better prepared for the upcoming school year.

ABA, or Applied Behavioral Analysis therapy, is an approach to understanding how children learn while teaching them how to positively react to community stimuli. ABA therapy is mostly used for children on the autism spectrum. With such a progressive method, these five benefits are sure to help your child succeed as an independent.

According to the United States House of Representatives, July is officially BeBe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month (BMC-MHA). Many have shortened the name to BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month, but we won’t do that. We must keep BeBe Moore Campbell’s name because her short-lived span of work trailblazed us here. That being said, what better month than this to break down the differences between three interchangeably used titles that aren’t so interchangeable? What titles you may ask? We’re talking about therapists, psychiatrists and psychologists.

Our BIPOC friends and family members may be suffering in silence with mental health issues. We exclude them from activities simply because we don’t know how to interact, engage or communicate with them. This exclusion practice is not good for them or us and the month of July is focused on making sure the practice of exclusion is no more for our mental health challenged friends and family in BIPOC communities. July is BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month. Let’s break down the title.

While summer is a good time to increase the bonding with your child and family, it’s also a good time to plan those annual and semi-annual health check-ups. We know going to the dentist or the doctor isn’t the most fun thing to do for adults, so imagine how your child might feel. Anxiety triggers indeed. One way to soothe your child’s anxiety (and yours) is by creating storyboards.

Reading comprehension is a package of skills used to digest what we read. In this post, I am sharing ways to improve and enhance your child’s reading comprehension. FYI: These strategies work for adults too!

Juneteenth 2021 is tomorrow and thanks to President Biden, it is now a federal holiday. While the Emancipation Proclamation was issued January 1, 1863, it wasn’t until June 19, 1865--two and a half years later--that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were officially freed. Juneteenth is a celebration of liberation and independence for Black people in the United States. But what does Juneteenth mean for our country?

On the season finale of The Parenting Cipher, Stephanie Reed of MiJa Books joins Genie to talk about the importance of representation in children’s books and the positive effect it can have on our children’s self-esteem and the ways they relate to others. Exposure to diverse books can create a more inclusive world. Hear about what MiJa Books is doing to make multicultural stories-- especially stories of joy and existence-- accessible to everyone in this episode of The Parenting Cipher.