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 …
Peg Solitaire is a simple game where the aim is to ‘jump’ over pegs on a board until there is only one left in the middle. It’s a very old game, but this app brings it into the 21st Century and allows it to be Read More …
The Dictionary Game is a game which will help improve your child’s spelling and vocabulary, as well as teaching them how to use a dictionary. The game itself is simple: someone picks a letter of the alphabet, and a word starting with that letter. The 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 …
What Vehicle Is That? is a simple game that can be played on any road journey, and it’s a great way to increase your child’s observation skills, as well as their understanding of different types of vehicles, counting and numbers. The basic game involves calling out whenever Read More …
Very Good Lives started as a commencement address at Harvard University in 2008 by J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books. In it she focused on two concepts: the importance of imagination and the benefits of failure. All too often in life, children learn to Read More …
The Toddler’s Handbook aims to introduce toddlers to one hundred and seventy-four words across seventeen basic, but important, concepts. These include numbers, letters, colours, animals and their sounds, emotions, sports, body, time, opposites and relative sizes. Each word and concept is accompanied by a bright and colourful image to Read More …
Classic Simon is a memory-based game that’s great for increasing working memory, which in turn is important for developing self-control and the ability to delay gratification. The premise is simple: there are four coloured squares and the app will flash them in a specific sequence. Read More …
For those of you who don’t know, Freakonomics (a term coined by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levittis in their 2005 book of the same name) is the exploration of economic theory and practice, not through studying international commerce or national economics, but through the types of everyday situations and examples Read More …
You might imagine that having your child design their own t-shirt would be a complicated and expensive business, but with easy-to-use image processing software and the advent of digital on-demand printing, it’s something that is now very simple for almost anyone to do. It’s also Read More …