Welcome to the Education with Grandma Blog

This post was written for my teenage granddaughter. Even as I remember the frightening aspects of growing up, I realize that life is full...

We all face occasions when we need to correct a child. How we make the correction has a powerful impact. Although this entry is written...

A major part of my adult life focused on supporting children in public education. I believed in public schools as a parent, a teacher,...

Fair does not mean that every student receives the same treatment. Fair means that each student gets what that individual needs in order...

When my children were growing up, I believed in positive reinforcement. In fact, I used positives more than was actually good for them....

Sometimes, well-intentioned teachers and parents create new problems by giving more praise and rewards than a child can accept. Gushy...

William Glasser designed reality therapy as a questioning technique to assist children in evaluating behaviors and in planning more...

Note: On March 25, 2015, the Texas Senate “approved a package of bills that would cut taxes in Texas by more than four billion dollars.”...

The amount of pain a person causes is a measure of the pain that an individual holds inside. That means, that when a friend says unkind...