The PAPTA Perspective – Pennsylvania PTA

Financial Awareness for Children and Teens

Helping Parents Raise Money Savvy Kids By Hilary HuntPresident, Pennsylvania Jump$tart Coalition Do your kids understand the importance of saving money for a rainy day? Do they know where money comes from (and not just from an ATM)? And, when that day comes, will they be prepared to enter the “real world” of credit card offers and responsibility for retirement planning? Knowing that many parents often struggle with teaching sound money management skills to their children, the Pennsylvania Jump$tart Coalition

What to Do When Your Child Is Bullying–or Being Bullied

What to Do When Your Child Is Bullying–or Being Bullied Parents need to watch for patterns of behavior that indicate their children are being bullied–or are bullies themselves. Ultimately, it is parents’ responsibility to identify their children’s behavior. If you know that your child has been bullying others, try to identify his or her sources of frustration. Once you have identified the sources, you can work with your child to either eliminate his or her frustrations or learn how to

Bullying

Topic: Bullying The Bystander: A Bully’s Often- Unrecognized Accompliceby Margaret Sagarese and Charlene C. Giannetti A few years ago, an upstate New York newspaper headline noted that 60 high school girls and boys, ages 14 to 21, faced criminal prosecution for leering at and cheering on two brawling 15-year-old boys. The headline and accompanying story startled us. What we found amazing about this news item was that the police were holding “the human boxing ring” accountable. The “innocent bystander” status

Reflecting on the PTA Legacy: A Challenge for 21st Century Leaders – Chapter 10 – Honoring the Legacy of our Founders: Leading with Grit and Grace

Reflecting on the PTA Legacy: A Challenge for 21st Century Leaders Sandra L. Zelno, Consultant to the Pennsylvania PTA. Chapter 10. Honoring the Legacy of our Founders: Leading with Grit and Grace The first nine chapters of this series of articles have been primarily devoted to the amazing leaders who strived for a better world for children and created the National PTA we know today. Armed with passion, confidence, and resilience, they were willing to accept long term commitments and

Reflecting on the PTA Legacy: A Challenge for 21st Century Leaders – Chapter 9 – Honoring the Legacy of our Founders: Committing to Today’s Children

Reflecting on the PTA Legacy: A Challenge for 21st Century Leaders Sandra L. Zelno, Consultant to the Pennsylvania PTA. Chapter 9. Honoring the Legacy of our Founders: Committing to Today’s Children The passing of time may cause us to forget the incredible leaders who came before us. But only if we allow that to happen. This series of articles on the founding of the National PTA showed us that passionate women were able to make seismic shifts in the landscape of children’s

Reflecting on the PTA Legacy: A Challenge for 21st Century Leaders – Chapter 8 – Separate but Equal: Another Challenge for the PTA

Reflecting on the PTA Legacy: A Challenge for 21st Century Leaders Sandra L. Zelno, Consultant to the Pennsylvania PTA. Chapter 8. Separate but Equal: Another Challenge for the PTA The roots of the National PTA were in Washington D. C. in 1897. Every winter, however, my memories take me to our nation’s capital and reflect upon a later date—January of 1996. I was serving as a member of the National PTA Legislative Committee that met in Washington, D. C. and