Sticker Power
As someone who has never felt the need to reward using stickers I decided to give it a go last week. I made a 7 day chart for the wall and with my children we came up with 4 actions that they would need to do each day to gain a ...
Why Does My Child Misbehave?
All children misbehave and sometimes we lose sight of why they are behaving a certain way, a way that we don't particularly like. Here are five reasons why children do it. 1. To get your attention 2. Because they don’t know what to do in a new setting or situation. 3. They copy your behaviour, what ...
Dealing With The Dreaded School Anxiety
Starting a new year can be an anxious time for children. There is a new teacher to meet, new work, old friends we don’t want to see and possibly new friends to make. The summer was great fun but now the thought of returning to school is filling some children ...
How Do You Feel About This Type Of Communication?
I saw this article in the newspaper last weekend and thought it would be a good one to share with you http://bit.ly/cYTsx8. Its all about how some children and households now communicate. When I was growing up the only reason we had a computer was pacman and there were no such things ...
Is Sending Children To Camp Such A Bad Thing?
Yesterday I bumped into a mum I know from school. We exchanged how are you's and I asked if she was enjoying the holidays - yes she replied. I asked what she had been doing and she said she had been spending the holidays with her children and had not done summer camp. Then she asked me if I had ...
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