Foster Your Kids Love Of Learning

Tips, Tools, and Tech for Kids: Parenting Expert Michele Borba

Helps Ensure Your Kids Actually Enjoy Learning This Year

When your kids have free time are they only interested in the television, the computer, or mindless video games? Do you run into roadblocks when you try to get them to do anything educational or productive with their downtime? No one wants to sour their children on educational activities. So, how can parents combine fun and education to make sure downtime is not a waste of time?

Michele Borba, parenting expert and author who has written 23 books and appears regularly on the Today Show, Fox & Friends, The View and more, will offer tips for parents who want to make downtime productive without a fight, whether your kids are in elementary or high school.

She discusses:

Nose for news: For teens and pre-teens, the newspaper offers low-cost low-tech learning. Just reading the paper every day can help spark that love of reading and learning. From puzzles to sport stats, theres something for everyone.

Top in Tech: Younger kids need fun ways to build and maintain the new skills they are learning. Since tech will be a huge part of their future, parents will receive direction as to the best and most-educational games out there.

The Art of Conversation: Getting kids to answer your questions can help them build valuable communication skills. But, how many times has your daily what did you do today? inquiry been answered with Nothing. Ways to get kids to open up and share their challenges, triumphs and everything in between.

Michele Borba, Ed.D. is an internationally renowned educator, award-winning author, parenting expert and child and adolescent expert. Dr. Borba is a contribut for the Today Show and has appeared on countless talk shows including: Dr. Phil, The View, The Tyra Banks Show, Fox & Friends, Geraldo & Friends, The Doctors, CNN American Morning, Countdown, and The Early Show. She appears regularly on Fox Headline News and CNN Headline News to discuss late-breaking news and has been interviewed by numerous publications including Newsweek, People, U.S. News & World Report, Readers Digest, The Globe and Mail, and People. She is the award-winning author of 23 books. And her proposal: Ending School Violence and Student Bullying (SB1667) was signed into California law in 2002. She offers realistic, research-based advice culled from a career of working with over one million parents and educators worldwide.

This interview is provided by VTech.

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