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Praise is good for children, surely everyone knows that, but what is less well-known is that you need to apply praise properly or it will do more harm to your child’s development than good. How, you might wonder, can praise do that? Well, it seems Read More …
Good financial management is one of the most crucial core skills that a child needs to learn to become a happy adult, and indeed, poor financial management skills are probably one of the leading causes of unhappiness in adults in the developed world. You might Read More …
Ten Little Dinosaurs, by Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickerty, is the story of (unsurprisingly!) ten little dinosaurs who get separated from each other in all sorts of strange and interesting ways, only to be re-united at the end of the book. It is told in Read More …
The Little Book of Zombie Mathematics, written by Colin M. Drysdale (the creator of How To Raise A Happy Genius), provides a unique and alternative approach to getting people interested in mathematics. Originating as the Maths With Zombies blog, this book provides 25 zombie-based maths Read More …
Bird, Dog, Pig, Frog is a very simple word game. You mix up the letters that are used to spell the names of these four animals and your child has to re-arrange the letters into the right order for each one. How Long Does It Read More …
As well as emphasising the importance of children developing a good range of core life skills, a major part of the How To Raise A Happy Genius philosophy is the importance of a range of key parental skills for raising children who will go on to Read More …
This is a great piece of music from the 90s which has words of wisdom for everyone, but especially for the young, on how to lead a happier life. I’d recommend showing it to kids from about the age of ten upwards. For those who Read More …
As well as developing your child’s core life skills, you will find that there are certain skills of your own that you may also need to develop, especially if you were raised by parents who did not follow a child-raising strategy similar to the How Read More …
I’ve mentioned core life skills a number of times, but so far, I’ve not said anything about what they are. Core life skills are easy to define: they are the basic skills you need to lead a happy and successful life. This is simple enough Read More …
The How To Raise A Happy Genius philosophy can be summarised by six key tenets. These are: 1. Above all else, teaching your kids core life skills should be fun: There are many studies that have shown that children learn better when they are having Read More …