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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 …
The A to Z Game is a game which will help your child improve their vocabulary, observation, and critical thinking skills. It involves trying to spot an item beginning with each letter of the alphabet within a specific time period and/or location. It can be Read More …
This is a very simple, but fun set of experiments that can be used to introduce your child to the basic ideas behind Einstein’s theories of relativity and the physics of movement. Even if they don’t fully understand the theory behind it (and let’s face it, who Read More …
Here at How To Raise A Happy Genius, we’re very big on the need to teach children a wide range of core life skills if you wish them to grow into happy and successful adults. These core life skills range from things like being able Read More …
Zombies Love Brains, written by Colin M. Drysdale (the creator of How To Raise A Happy Genius) and illustrated by Mike Kloran, is a zombie-based picture book that tells a salutary tale which explains that even becoming a zombie isn’t an excuse for taking things Read More …
Computers are a critical part of modern life, and it’s likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future. This means that it’s important that kids not only learn how to use computers, but also that they understand how they actually work. It’s for this 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 …
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 …