How volunteering helps your child
Volunteering teaches us that everyone is valuable, thus developing ethical behaviour.
Tag: School & learning
How to help your child with procrastination
The pattern is always the same. Staying up late to complete homework that could have been started earlier and assignments finished in a frantic last-m…
Should you hold your child back from starting school?
Send your child to school too soon and they may not be ready. Send them too late and you may be wasting their potential. Is there in fact a right age?
How to make screen time work for your preschooler
How much screen time should children have and are educational apps really of much benefit?
How to prepare your child for a successful career
Equipping children for a happy and successful professional life, even in jobs that don’t yet exist.
How parents can teach Creation in a world that believes in evolution
My child’s school has been teaching evolution, causing him to question what we have been teaching him about Creation. Can you suggest anything we ca…
10 simple ways to talk to your children about terrorism
Even if terror events happen overseas and not in our own cities, they can still trigger fear in children who find out about them on TV or through frie…
Why I’m OK with my child’s “religious indoctrination”
Are what we’re teaching children at an early age, be that food choices or religious decisions, a form of indoctrination?
I found the secret to encourage creativity in my children
There are certainly merits to going out and experiencing the world, but sometimes, it is in those still moments at home that we flourish best.
Would you teach your child to share?
Is sharing really caring or an encroachment of a child's personal space and rights? Two mums share their views.
How to raise a boy to be a gentleman
While every child is different, there are some basic foundations we can provide to ensure our sons grow up to be men who make us proud.