Learning. Fun. Games
No matter your political belief, the elections are a big deal. And chances are that your child has begun to hear or notice posters, slogans, T-shirts and even news coverage. Election Day is a great opportunity to teach kids how voting works and why it’s important for everyone to have a say when it comes […]
An added benefit of STEM is that it fosters that love of learning. Instilling that passion and drive to learn is at its most crucial stage for children ages 5-11years. The best way to foster a love of STEM is to encourage curiosity. From a young age encourage kids to question, to explore and to […]
I doubt you can have a child in primary school today, and not have heard the word STEM or STEAM at least once. You might be thinking its it another FAD like the Y2k bug that got us all heated and worried about NOTHING at the beginning of this millennium… Another scheme to get us […]
The BETT show is billed as the world’s leading education show and it has lived up to its promise despite the British weather. Four days of learning, playing, listening and connecting with fellow educators and innovators.
Show me a child with wonderful vocabulary and I will show you a child who reads – 9ijakids My older son is preparing for entrance exams into Secondary School and one of the subjects that’s a challenge is English – specifically vocabulary and creative writing. When I mark his worksheets, I can immediately tell where […]
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, kids ages 8-18 now spend, on average, a whopping 7.5 hours in front of a screen for entertainment each day, 4.5 of which are spent watching TV. Over a year, that adds up to 114 full days watching a screen for fun.
The teaching profession today is saddled with much more responsibilities compared with what was obtainable years back. With technology, the world is rapidly changing, so educators have a major challenge to prepare the children for the future.
It’s the beginning of the year and chances are that your last Nanny/Domestic Help went home for Christmas with the promise to come back. Fast forward 3 weeks later and she is not yet back. So, it’s back to getting a new help – another addition to your “To do list”.
As the year is rolling out, I have taken time to evaluate how things turned out for me as a parent this year. I’ve been ticking my boxes and questioning my success rate at the goals I set for the dying year. One of such goals was to yell less lol. Needless to say, I […]
‘’Our experiences are a bigger part of ourselves than our material goods …. We are the sum total of our experiences’’ Thomas Gilovich Are you doing something differently this Christmas? Doing something differently this time requires that you first know that the best thing you can give your children aren’t things. Children love toys and […]
