Make it a priority to read to your child (the earlier the better)
I am a fan of children reading – that is no secret. I am also a fan of parents reading to their children. New research is proving me right. There [ . . . ]
Month: May 2018
How can you support your dyslexic child?
Is your child struggling to read? Do you suspect that your child might be dyslexic because he/she is a reluctant reader? Are you wondering what you can do to support [ . . . ]
Loneliness Part 3: Mindfulness and Pets
Welcome back to my mindfulness blog where we discuss loneliness and how mindfulness can help us. In part 3 we look at some more ways to be mindful. Walking is [ . . . ]
Loneliness Part 2: Mindfulness and Pets
In my previous blog about loneliness, I wrote about some of the things that we could do to ensure that we have new and better people in our lives. However, [ . . . ]
The Royal Wedding
Most people have been looking forward to this weekend and the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. I’m sure that Diana would have been so proud of her youngest [ . . . ]
Are audio books the new way forward?
‘Shakespeare should be seen, not read’, said Sir Ian McKellen. And he should know. Would Shakespeare have agreed with him? Absolutely! Not just because few people could read easily in [ . . . ]
Loneliness Part 1: Mindfulness
Do you feel lonely when you are alone, or do you love the solitude of being by yourself? Being alone isn’t necessarily the same thing as being lonely – solitude [ . . . ]
More thoughts on the SATs – are they the best or worst thing for our children? (Part 2)
Welcome back…continuing from the Part 1 post on Saturday… …Sir Ken Robinson has suggested home schooling as a way to avoid the test-oriented culture of schooling. The Let the Kids [ . . . ]
More thoughts on the SATs – are they the best or worst thing for our children? (Part 1)
It’s that time of the year again and teachers, children and parents across the country are gearing up for the high stakes Standard Assessment Tests or SATs. These tests were [ . . . ]
Why are women often held back? (Part Two of Two)
In the second part of this two-part blog series I am looking at more reasons as to why women are often held back at work, in their careers and their [ . . . ]