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Study: Report Cards Released on Friday Associated with Abuse on Saturday

A study that was published in JAMA Pediatrics in December of 2018 took a close look at the association between report cards being released on a Friday and reports of abuse on Saturday. This disturbing finding gives parents and educators plenty to think about. The study is titled: “Association of Friday School Report Card Release With Saturday Incidence Rates of Agency-Verified Physical Child Abuse”. Authors of the study include Melissa A. Bright, PhD; Sarah D. Lynne, PhD; and Katherine E. Masyn, PhD. The researchers sought an answer to a troubling question. Are school report cards a precipitant to child physical … Continue reading →

Do You Punish Your Kids for Bad Grades?

If you are the Generals from Chesapeake, Virginia, your kid not only gets punished for coming home with a bad report card, but his punishment makes front-page news. It’s hard not to end up in the paper when you have your 15-year-old standing near a busy intersection wearing a chest-to-trunk poster board displaying his bad grades for hours on end. According to reports, Trenton O’Neal’s parents were fed up with their teen’s lack of effort in school and decided to publicly humiliate him. “He hadn’t been trying at all,” the boy’s dad, Rev. Donald General Jr., pastor of Perfecting Saints … Continue reading →

2007 Video Game Report Card

MediaWise, a parent advocacy group for the National Institute on Media and the Family, released its report Tuesday on which video games are yeas and which are nays when it comes to family friendly content. This report comes at a great time, just when the holiday gift giving season is here. This year it is especially important to have a video game report you can trust, since many parents are looking to video games as replacement gifts for toys that could possibly contain unacceptable levels of lead paint. There are thousands of children out there, ages 8-14 who play with … Continue reading →

Responding to a Bad Report Card

It seems pretty likely that if you have kids you will experience, at least once, the Bad Report Card. And it is equally likely that you may be caught completely off guard by the Bad Report Card because who likes to share bad news? Your child, unless completely frustrated in school, is unlikely to come home bragging about his failed Geometry grades, right? So what do you do? How do you react? Consider your goal. your reaction is likely to encourage a response. Consider, carefully, your goal for your child. Do you wish to have an honest child? A successful … Continue reading →