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  • Two Things You Should Do Before Starting Electrician Trade School To Maximize Your Success


    If you are considering attending electrician school to learn this lucrative, interesting, and much-admired trade, then you have made a great career choice. However, before you begin training, you should understand what it will take to be successful in your training and move on to the ultimate goal, your journeyman electrician's license. Two of these elements include picking your apprenticeship carefully and being competent to handle the required math that will be tossed around in class and in on-the-job situations.
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  • Looking For A Daycare Or Preschool? 3 Reasons You Should Consider A Montessori School


    If you are like most working moms, you might worry about what your child is actually doing when they are at daycare or preschool. As you start looking for a center, you might notice that some schools are strict and offer a rigid atmosphere, while others seem like a free-for-all completely devoid of learning opportunities. Fortunately, Montessori learning might help you to strike the delicate balance that will help your child to grow.
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  • Teenagers' Guide To Moving From Public School To Catholic School


    Moving to a different school can be challenging enough, but it can be even more challenging when moving from a public school to a Catholic school. One of the reasons parents choose Catholic private schools for their children is because students who graduate from Catholic high schools are twice as likely to graduate college than students who graduate from the public school system. So if your parents enrolled you in a Catholic school (or are planning to), they are looking out for your best interests.
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  • 4 Reasons To Support Your Teen's Decision To Go To Aviation College


    Has your teenage child mentioned an interest in aviation college? Are you unfamiliar with the aviation industry and skeptical that this life course is right for your son or daughter? If so, put your mind at ease with these 4 great reasons to support your teen's interest in becoming a pilot. The Aviation Industry Is Safe You've probably heard plenty of times in your life that flying is safe, but when your child is considering a future career in the flight industry, you want a more specific explanation of just how safe it is.
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  • Three Exciting Fields You Can Work In With A Degree In Accounting


    People who major in accounting often get stereotyped as bean counters. While bean counters are needed in the world, there is so much more you can do with an accounting degree. The best part about it, you do not even have to stay in the business field, unless you really want to. There are many exciting careers in the fields of law, entertainment, sports, and more, that are looking for someone who is good with numbers.
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  • 3 Tips For Turning Your Teen Into A Safe Driver


    There's little that's more terrifying to a parent than realizing that your teenager has finally reached driving age. Even if you're excited about the idea of having someone else to run errands or chauffer younger children around, the idea of letting your child out on the roads alone and in charge of a potentially dangerous vehicle can be nerve wracking. However, as the parent, you have a lot of influence over what kind of driver your teenager turns out to be.
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  • Why Most Adult Education Classes Do Not Have Grades And How You Can Monitor Your Progress Without Them


    If you enroll in an adult education class, from High School Equivalency Test Preparation to basic technological literacy, you may be surprised to find out that your teacher will probably not be issuing grades. If you struggled in traditional school, this may come as a relief. However, it is also normal for adult students to feel anxious when they learn that they will not be graded. How will you monitor your progress and know if you are succeeding in the course if you do not have grades?
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  • Transitioning From A Private Daycare To A Public Kindergarten


    If your child's private daycare facility does not feed into a private elementary school, or if you simply elect to send your child to public school rather than private school after preschool, you will have to help your child transition from the private daycare environment to a public school environment. While much of the transition will be similar to the transition children continuing into private school will experience, there are several aspects of public education that your child should be prepared for.
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