15 Successful People You Didn’t Know Were Homeschooled
The future of education is transforming right before our eyes. It’s understandable why most parents are now considering trading institutionalized education to homeschooling.
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4 Favourite Kids Animated Movies with Strong Messages of Racism and Discrimination
Beginning conversations about race, racial privilege, and discrimination are often difficult when children are young. This doesn’t mean however, that things should be simply swept under the carpet. Teaching children to recognise privilege, identifying social and racial injustices, noting when an individual has benefitted from a race-based privilege will help go a long way to […]
4 Excellent Websites that Help You Talk to Your Children about Race and Racism
Race and racism are at the forefront of difficult issues and topics to discuss with children. In part because it forces us to confront our own thoughts, ideas and prejudices about the colour of our skin and that of the people around us. Yet it is important that we do address these difficult issues.
Stay Connected: 12 Games to Play for Your Next Virtual Game Night
Being away from friends and family for extended periods of time can be very stressful, especially for those whose love language is physical touch or quality time. We explore 12 games that you can play and stay connected for your next virtual game night.
How to help your Child Memorise Times Tables
Times tables form the core of much of further and more advanced Mathematics and while it is often a boring chore, memorising times tables do indeed help in the long term Mathematical abilities and understanding. Being able to recall multiplication facts quickly also contributes to greater overall confidence in maths.
The Five Kinds of Students and How to Inspire the Best of Them
Almost everyone has that ONE teacher who sticks out in their memory – the one whose name immediately pops up in your head whenever the topic of unforgettable teachers comes up.
6 Key Reasons Why Reducing Your Kids’ Screen Time Might Do More Harm Than Good
Since the advent of colour television, parents everywhere have been obsessed with limiting their kids’ screen times. The birth of the smartphone and social media has exacerbated fears that the digital world poses serious harm to the development of children. It didn’t help that researchers supposedly found connections between too much screen time and poor […]
Top 5 Work Abroad Opportunities for Your Gap Year
Gap years these days have become the fashionable thing to do after 13 years of formal schooling and before beginning University. Many have used them as a means to explore and learn more, both about the world around them and perhaps more importantly about themselves.
10 Amazing Sensory and Activity Games to help your Pre-schooler Learn the Alphabet
Teaching young children the alphabet is a bit like inducting them in to a secret society. ‘You mean these weird shapes and squiggles actually mean something?’
10 Simple Things To Do with your Kids Instead of Screen-time
Screens are all around us in a myriad of forms, from the television to the computer, from the tablet to the mobile phone. There is hardly a child born in this day and age who will not have been exposed to a screen.
Growth Mindset: Best Books to Read with and Encourage Your Children
One of my nieces is rather fond of reading. She has a large bookshelf that she keeps top-notch and up to date. She loves to talk about books and plans to write one too. My other niece is another story though. Whenever you hand her a book, she starts to whine, ‘I don’t like reading’, […]
The 7 Best Musical Instruments to Learn On Your Own
Music is food for soul. Through the ages, it has been used to express emotions that words on their cannot do sufficient justice. When you are on a long drive, getting bored on a subway, strenuously working out, jogging, or having dinner with friends, music brightens up everyday life.
Top 14 Tips on How to Budget As a Student
Have you been feeling broke lately? Are you behind on bills that you just can’t seem to catch up, you live on instant noodles as they save time and money, and you have to pay back friends for the meals they bought you the last time you met… You can’t figure out how to go […]
10 Helpful Ways to Make Homework Fun and Engaging
Homework… The word alone is enough to bring on a huge yawn. Your children come home after spending a long day at school and now you want them to sit down quietly and do their homework. What kind of torture is that?
10 Awesome Tips to Make the Best of Your College Experience
Going away to college or university is a life experience that is often seen in the modern world as a coming of age experience. Leaving home, being fully independent, making choices and friends that can both influence and affect the rest of your life, it’s an exciting, yet scary time.
How to Encourage the Reluctant Reader – Top 5 Tips to get your little ones reading
When I was four years old, my father bought me a book I instantly fell in love with, ‘Milly Molly Mandy Stories’. While I could hardly read back then, I loved looking at the pictures and following the random adventures of a little girl while my parents read it aloud for me.
10 Steps on How to Deal with Back to School Blues
Summer vacation allows you to delve into a leisurely routine. There is no fixed time to wake up in the morning, you can have pizzas or pastas for breakfast, and movie nights and slumber parties happen every other night.
10 Essential Things Parents Need to Know About Raising Teens
As a parent, you have lived through everything, or so you thought. The sleepless nights when your infant just wouldn’t close their eyes, the unbearable cluster feedings, tiny monsters rejecting solids and spitting out healthy spinach soup you just made, toddlers turning the whole house upside down and let’s not forget those never-ending tantrums. It […]
How Music Enhances a Child’s Learning and Development
In one way or another, we feel connected to music. It can be a favorite song that takes you back in time with intense nostalgia, your old guitar with rusty strings that somehow still manages to make a sound or a beloved music box that slightly creeps you out, but you just can’t bring yourself […]
Unstructured Play vs Structured Play: Why Finding Balance is Key
I spent majority of my childhood in a quaint house on a forested trail. Whenever we were allowed to play outdoors, we would grab our rusty bicycles and ride them through the trees with branches stuck in our hair, by the stagnant pond we were fond of and finally to the bumpy pebbled track that […]