Stop the Summer Slide in Its Tracks

You don’t flip an Off switch in your brain just because the lights in the classroom have gone dark. Summer is a break from school - it shouldn’t be a break from learning.

Stop the Summer Slide in Its Tracks How do you keep your kids’ minds and neural pathways open during the summer without making them crack textbooks or write book reports? (As if!)

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About Denise Denise Daniels is a Peabody award-winning broadcast journalist, parenting and child development expert and author who specializes in the social and emotional development of children.