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 ...
Telling Porky Pies – How Do You Deal With It?
Thankfully my oldest child does not tell lies (yet!) but he has a friend that does and I find it very frustrating as to why he feels the need to tell them to my son when they are clearly not realistic or true. I should commend him on his vivid imagination ...
The Opportunity To Think
There are not many opportunities in the day when I just get to sit down and think without interruption. However, the last few days have been different and have allowed me to do this. I decided that given half-term I could also do with a break and so cleared my diary ...
My five year old sorts out his school queue issue
I am feeling happy and proud that I finally seem to be getting my five year old to sort out his own issues. This year he has had to deal with a new and bigger playground and the proceedure for when he goes into school in the mornings is different. ...
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