Encouraging Help Around the Home
Home life with teenagers can be a challenge for adults as well as the teenagers themselves. The dynamics of the family are subject to...
Reading Partnerships
‘Partnering’ in this sense is the pairing up of two children reading the same book. It has been found that when you team up children of...
'A Ground-breaking Reading Programme'
The Hudson Expanded Adventure Reading Tournament (H.E.A.R.T.) is a groundbreaking programme for the extension and improvement of reading...
The Shape of Schools to Come
Schools exist at all because they provide something which a large part of the population seem to think they need. They also tend to...
Children and Communication
Obviously it’s important to communicate with your children -not just ‘to’ them. Here are some specific tips on this. Most are...
Communication in School
In a good school, children should run into the school as though they can’t wait to start their day here. I hasten to add, not because...
Helping Younger Children with Schoolwork
Once children reach an age where serious study begins, pressure increases and lines of academic differentiation begin to appear in their...
Encouraging Right Behaviour
Children aren’t robots and parents shouldn’t expect to be able to ‘programme’ an individual child into certain patterns of behaviour....
Helping Children Cope
Growing up isn’t always easy, and the older we get the harder it might become to remember that. Here are some tips to help make life a...
A Ground-breaking Programme to Encourage Reading
The Hudson Expanded Adventure Reading Tournament (H.E.A.R.T.) is a groundbreaking programme for the extension and improvement of reading...