Self-control, also known as delayed gratification, is one of the most important life skills that you can encourage your child to develop. It is the basis for so many other core life skills, and is one of the key elements needed if a child is Read More …
When they hear the word ‘Mantra’, many people will instantly think of ageing hippies, management consultants who spout more-or-less empty platitudes or over-eager personal trainers shouting things like ’No pain, no gain!’ as they encourage you to stretch your body to the point where the Read More …
Parents, by their very nature, wish to protect their child as much as they possibly can, but if this protection is taken too far, then it ends up causing deep and long-term damage to a child’s development, self-confidence and ability to grow into a fully functional Read More …
Parents, quite rightly, wish to mould their children into the adults they’d like to see them become. However, such moulding needs to be done carefully or it can end up doing more harm than good. Why? Because, in their desire to steer their child in Read More …
Math, Count And Numbers For Kids is an app that will help your child develop their maths skills in fun and interesting ways. It starts with the basic concepts of numbers and builds up to counting, simple addition and subtraction, as well as ordering numbers in accordance Read More …
How To Raise A Happy Child (And Be Happy Too) by Heather Criswell and Taryn Voget is a book that aims to provide parenting strategies that will help you raise a happy, independent child while defusing many of the potential flash points in parent-child relationships. Its advice Read More …
The latest research shows that one in four children in the UK, and almost half of the children in London, have private tuition to help them with their school work, and these figures are by no means unusual for many countries around the world. Yet, even Read More …
What Is It? Self-assessment is the ability to assess your current mental, physical and emotional state, and then, based on this assessment, decide on the best course of action you need to take to make sure your needs in these three areas are met both Read More …
How To Raise An Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims is a book that’s both a damning indictment of the over-parenting commonly found in better off families in the western world, and a solution to it. The first half of the book is spent outlining just how much, despite Read More …
Learning Letters Puppy from Fisher Price is an app that will help your child learn letters, numbers and shapes, and all while having fun. You can select whether to work through individual letters, numbers or shapes, or you can choose to play fun songs, like Read More …