Why you should send your child to preschool
Early learning services such as preschool can be one of the best things parents can do to support their child’s development. Here’s why.
How to deal with exam stress
Witnessing your child caving in under the stress of exams? Here are 8 ways to help them cope with the mental pressure.
How to identify your child’s strengths and cultivate them
One psychologist has the secret to finding your child’s strengths, unleashing their innate potential and a free printable to encourage their inner genius.
Why your children should not do homework
School assignments: why they can sometimes do more harm than good.
10 of the best learn to read books
As a librarian, here are a few of my favourite books for young children. Do you have any of these on your child’s bookshelf?
How to teach your child to read
There are some simple activities you can do at home from an early age that will teach your child to read.
Free printable: Rhyming game to teach literacy
Rhyming games help young children strengthen listening and concentration skills, and it helps them hear, notice, identify and start to play with the individual units of sound that make up words.
How volunteering helps your child
Volunteering teaches us that everyone is valuable, thus developing ethical behaviour.
How to help your child with procrastination
The pattern is always the same. Staying up late to complete homework that could have been started earlier and assignments finished in a frantic last-minute rush. What do you do when your child is a procrastinator?
Should you hold your child back from starting school?
Send your child to school too soon and they may not be ready. Send them too late and you may be wasting their potential. Is there in fact a right age?
How to make screen time work for your preschooler
How much screen time should children have and are educational apps really of much benefit?
How to prepare your child for a successful career
Equipping children for a happy and successful professional life, even in jobs that don’t yet exist.