When your child starts school, their new teachers will start introducing them to letters, sounds and eventually reading. However, it wouldn’t hurt for you to help your child with their reading comprehension using some simple exercises at home. All children learn at their own pace, so be patient and if they’re not ready, don’t push…
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How To Teach Your Child A New Language
Read moreMost schools incorporate modern foreign languages into the curriculum, but you may be wondering how you can help your child with this aspect of the learning whilst at home. Learning a new language will be great for your child and might even broaden their career options in the future. It will be easier for you…
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[AD] Helping Your Child with their Home Learning
Read moreSince schools are currently closed in the UK, parents are finding it increasingly more difficult to ensure their children remain motivated to learn at home. It might help you to know that there are learning experiences all around you; a child doesn’t have to be sat at a desk with their head in their books…
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[AD] Saying Thank You To Your Child’s Teacher This Christmas
Read moreRegular readers of my blog will know that I am a father of five children. Three of those children have now left full time education, but I still have seven year old twin girls in junior school. Over the years I have seen my fair share of teachers and it never ceases to amaze me…
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Lessons Learnt: Lessons Taught Parent To Child
Read moreGrowing up for me was at times very difficult. Did I learn anything about parenting from my own parents that I would be able to put to good use when I became a parent? The honest answer is no! Or least nothing that I could use because my parents were not the sort of role…
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School Choice
Read moreIt’s that time of year when parents start applying for places to get their child into a school of their choice, even though they are very possibly out of catchment. I fully understand parents wanting the best school for their child, but because the standards may not be what you want at your local catchment school,…
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Education in war-torn countries: what you can do to help
Read moreBeing a parent really brings home the importance of education for children and you no doubt want your kids to get the best possible schooling. Fortunately, most youngsters in the UK have access to decent schooling, but the same can’t be said for children everywhere. Millions of kids growing up in war-torn countries around the…
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Time and children
Read moreThe concept of time for children is a long process of learning. My four year old twins know how to say one minute and so on, but they have no concept of how long one minute is. One of the examples of this is M. At four years old we have the same conversation on…
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Teaching your toddlers to save money around the home
Read moreI have three and half year old twins and I think it is never to early to teach our children the value of money and how simple lessons at the toddler stage can be taken into adulthood It will hopefully help them use their own money wisely when they’re older. 1 .In today’s world water…
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Teaching our children a winning mentality
Read moreIt’s interesting that there two completely different sides to this, on the one side we have some schools that having sports days with winners and I am sure some schools teaching exactly the opposite that on sports day there are no winners just those that take part. Today I suppose it is not politically correct…
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R&M on their new big bicycles
Read moreOn the way home from Mr Tumbles circus we took a detour and went to Tesco’s to collect the girls new bikes. The bikes have a princess theme with a basket on the handlebars the basket is very important because R wanted her doggie to ride on her bike and M wanted her baby doll…
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