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Best Learning Disabilities Tutoring 2023

November 8, 2023 By Y3K

The Family Favorite Best Learning Disabilities Specialists Award 2023 was awarded to Y3K Tutor In Your Home recently. This is the second year in a row that we have received this award honoring our success supporting those with learning disabilities. There were two separate rounds of voting. In each round, thousands of parents voted for us. Boston Parents Paper Family Favorite 2023 issue then featured us in their annual magazine. We won the Learning Disabilities Specialists category, soundly defeating many worthy competitors in the voting. Thank you to all of the parents that chose Y3K Tutor In Your Home as their favorite learning disabilities specialist!

Best Learning Disabilities Specialist Award was given to Y3K Tutor In Your Home.

Be a Good Sport

April 25, 2017 By Y3K

Be a good sport and you can’t fail.

Rainbow

June 2, 2015 By Y3K

If you want to see the rainbow, you are going to have to be able to deal with the rain first.

MIAA Drops Boys’ Gymnastics

February 28, 2013 By Y3K

The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association recently made a decision to eliminate boys’ gymnastics from sanctioned competition. This ruling affects several cities and towns including Y3K Tutor In Your Home’s City of Newton. Both Newton North High School and Newton South High School currently have boys’ gymnastics teams and are allowed to finish up the current season. Beginning next fall they will be unable to officially compete under MIAA rules. Next school year the schools will be able offer boys’ gymnastics as a club sport, however meets will not be sanctioned by the MIAA and there would be no state tournament or championship. Girls’ gymnastics will continue as usual to be MIAA sanctioned.

Good Ideas & Success

February 20, 2013 By Y3K

Do not delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of that idea too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

Concussion Facts

November 27, 2012 By Y3K

Concussion Facts

A concussion is a brain injury.

All concussions are serious.

Concussions can occur without loss of consciousness.

Concussions can occur in almost any sport.

Proper treatment of concussions when they first happen can help prevent further injury or death.

Everybody Gets a Trophy vs. Competition

January 25, 2012 By Y3K

The “everybody gets a trophy” kids tend to always need constant encouragement, expect accolades for completing routine tasks and respond poorly to correction or criticism. Competition can be good for children. They learn how to handle winning and losing.

Not Keeping Score in Sports For Kids

October 12, 2011 By Y3K

Some crusty adults try to ruin sports for kids by not allowing teams to keep score. Kids are smarter than that and understand who really won no matter what these adults do.

Team Sports

January 1, 2010 By Y3K

Team sports aren’t for everyone. Kids can excel in non-competitive sports like karate, weightlifting, boxing & etc. This is for L in Newton.