Radical Teaching

Parenting

Help Your Teens Be Better Organizers

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on March 13, 2023

Parents can help teens build skills to independently manage their school assignments. With better organizational skills, they scramble less and family strife decreases.

Parents can help teens build skills to independently manage their school assignments. With better organizational skills, they scramble less and family strife decreases.

Stress

Help Your Teens Navigate Their Emotional Highways

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on December 21, 2022

You can’t keep all stress out of their lives, but you can help them develop detours around stress-induced roadblocks to developing positive responses and actions.

You can’t keep all stress out of their lives, but you can help them develop detours around stress-induced roadblocks to developing positive responses and actions.

Motivation

Motivating Teens to Do School Work

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on September 21, 2022

“What can I do to get my teenagers to put in the effort needed for success in school? How can they build their skills, persevere through setbacks, and be independent learners?"

“What can I do to get my teenagers to put in the effort needed for success in school? How can they build their skills, persevere through setbacks, and be independent learners?"

Motivation

How to Avoid Kids’ Summer Learning Slides

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on June 21, 2022

You can provide environments and experiences that sustain and boost your children’s memories of what they learned in school this year before they are deleted.

You can provide environments and experiences that sustain and boost your children’s memories of what they learned in school this year before they are deleted.

Motivation

How Goal-Setting Can Stop the Battles With Your Kids Over Reports and Projects

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on March 22, 2022

If you are like most of us, you’ve been through the travails of supervising, shopping for, pushing and arguing, and finally doing much of our children’s projects.

If you are like most of us, you’ve been through the travails of supervising, shopping for, pushing and arguing, and finally doing much of our children’s projects.

Parenting

What Children Want As Parents’ New Year’s Resolutions

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on December 23, 2021

As we make New Year’s resolutions, boost your parenting success by finding out what resolutions kids want parents to make this year.

As we make New Year’s resolutions, boost your parenting success by finding out what resolutions kids want parents to make this year.

Parenting

Help Your Kids Study Less and Remember More

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on September 24, 2021

Do your kids do well on the unit tests, but forget what they memorized and need to study it again for final tests? Sustain their hard work with neurological strategies.

Do your kids do well on the unit tests, but forget what they memorized and need to study it again for final tests? Sustain their hard work with neurological strategies.

Child Development

Parents' Powerful Impact on Young Children’s Brains

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on July 1, 2021

The brain’s most rapid growth occurs during gestation while an intense second period of accelerated growth occurs between ages 2 and 7.

The brain’s most rapid growth occurs during gestation while an intense second period of accelerated growth occurs between ages 2 and 7.

Education

What We Learned From Parenting Children With Remote Learning

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on March 26, 2021

Love of learning starts with delighting in the process of learning. Help children follow their curiosity and their interests and watch their relationships to learning thrive.

Love of learning starts with delighting in the process of learning. Help children follow their curiosity and their interests and watch their relationships to learning thrive.

Empathy

Boost Kids' Empathy with Assertiveness Skills

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on December 27, 2020

As you help guide your children's empathy and build their skills of assertiveness, they need to act on their empathetic responses to themselves as well as others.

As you help guide your children's empathy and build their skills of assertiveness, they need to act on their empathetic responses to themselves as well as others.

Education

Power Up Kids' Home Learning Skills for Now and Later

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on September 27, 2020

Although we all hoped that the pandemic's impact on schooling would lessen by now, it has not. Parents, students, and teachers now face new challenges and opportunities in learning.

Although we all hoped that the pandemic's impact on schooling would lessen by now, it has not. Parents, students, and teachers now face new challenges and opportunities in learning.

Child Development

Can Being Your Kids' Math Teacher Really Be Fun?

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on June 27, 2020

Recall your childhood need for homework help in math. It may reflect experiences with your own children. One moan I particularly recall, “My teacher does not do it that way!"

Recall your childhood need for homework help in math. It may reflect experiences with your own children. One moan I particularly recall, “My teacher does not do it that way!"

Education

Coping With Your Kids' Transition to Home and Online Learning

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on March 29, 2020

What can parents do to help navigate the new challenges of facilitating kids' online learning?

What can parents do to help navigate the new challenges of facilitating kids' online learning?

Parenting

Lessons from a Neurologist’s Grandparenting Journey

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on March 16, 2020

With my background as a neurologist, classroom teacher, and author of parenting and teaching books, I expected that I'd be a sure thing at grandparenting. Wow, was I wrong.

With my background as a neurologist, classroom teacher, and author of parenting and teaching books, I expected that I'd be a sure thing at grandparenting. Wow, was I wrong.

Dopamine

Recharge Kids for Back-to-School Brain Boost

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on December 16, 2019

Help your kids get back to a time when they really looked forward to returning to school—when they were excited about seeing friends, special events, and new discoveries.

Help your kids get back to a time when they really looked forward to returning to school—when they were excited about seeing friends, special events, and new discoveries.

Stress

Your Kids Can Beat Test Stress

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on September 18, 2019

High-stakes standardized tests are not good for kids' brains, and their stressed brains are not good for taking these tests.

High-stakes standardized tests are not good for kids' brains, and their stressed brains are not good for taking these tests.

Stress

Do Tests Stress Out Your Child?

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on June 19, 2019

When kids have parental support, emotional awareness, and skills emotional self-regulation skills, challenging tests can be approached with positivity.

When kids have parental support, emotional awareness, and skills emotional self-regulation skills, challenging tests can be approached with positivity.

Confidence

When Your Children Don't Believe They Can Succeed in School

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on March 20, 2019

Has your child lost confidence in his ability to succeed in school, sports, friendships, etc? Reboot his expectations with recognition of his progress.

Has your child lost confidence in his ability to succeed in school, sports, friendships, etc? Reboot his expectations with recognition of his progress.

Fear

What to Do When Mistakes Upset Your Kids

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on December 20, 2018

If you want creative kids, let them know about times when you were their age and felt embarrassed or angry about your mistakes.

If you want creative kids, let them know about times when you were their age and felt embarrassed or angry about your mistakes.

Memory

Awesome Insights About Learning from Brain-Savvy Teens

Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed. on September 20, 2018

When children are taught that their minds literally change to become better at what they persistently work at, they are motivated knowing that their effort truly does pay dividends

When children are taught that their minds literally change to become better at what they persistently work at, they are motivated knowing that their effort truly does pay dividends