‘Mum guilt’: a term which means feeling guilty in some way or another as you believe you have not done an adequate job providing…
Your son swears at the dinner table, or your daughter is caught lying about her homework for the hundredth time – What do you…
Who knew we would miss school so much? I am talking about us parents! Unexpected homeschooling has thrown our plans out of the window.…
Sometimes, when everything gets you down, and you feel like it just couldn’t get any worse, a little perspective re-alignment is just the ticket out of the doldrums of depression.
Parents all around the world have been stretched to breaking point lately; extra pressures like coronavirus anxiety, lockdown and home-schooling has mounted on unprecedented…
Apple, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Tesla – these brands are implanted in our children’s minds and they have taken over our lives. Our world is…
Most people have not heard of prenatal depression which is also known as antenatal depression. Prenatal depression simply means depression which exists in pregnancy and can be a precursor to postpartum depression.
Are children and teens really struggling to communicate with everyone else in the world? Or could this be down to them reading less than they used to? It certainly appears so. Studies show that less than 20% of teens in the United States read for pleasure. In the UK, this figure rises to about 30%.
Getting children to sit still for more than five minutes is a challenge in itself! So how on earth can we motivate kids to sit, think and then write an entire story that makes sense? On top of that, how do we know if what they’ve written is any good? And then there’s the question of how can we get them to improve their skills with creative writing?