Imagine sending your kid to school with a cute SpongeBob face mask and they come back with a Spiderman face mask because they traded with their best friend during lunch LOL!!! As a parent, one of the biggest challenges you are managing right now is how to let your kid safely be a kid during […]
5 Ways to Get Your Child Ready for School in the New Normal
“Mummy I’m so excited I can’t wait to go back to school. I miss my friends, my teachers, I miss everyone, my son shouted” Your child is ready to go back to school, but the truth is that school is not going be the same as he is expecting it. It is going to be […]
5 BACK TO SCHOOL SAFETY TIPS DURING PANDEMIC
As back-to-school looms, every parent is probably in between decisions on whether it is safe to send the kids back to school or not. Wherever you stand at the moment, here are five back to school safety tips during the pandemic. Sing the precautionary measures to your child everyday. Yes, you have demonstrated this enough […]
13 Online/Remote Learning tips for schools
“Mummy, when are we going back to real school?” My son was tired of online learning. Mummy too was tired and stressed out with the new challenges of online learning and remote working. Life during the COVID-19 pandemic was difficult for parents and children alike. The return to school is an important and hopefully welcome […]
Back To School After Lockdown – Tips From An NHS Psychologist
Since some schools across the UK have started to re-open in phases, it has opened up a whole new set of questions for families. What will it be like for our kids? How will my child adjust to school after months at home? As well as adjusting academically to full-time education again, the emotional impact […]
Indoor Play Ideas to Stimulate Children’s Learning
It’s good to show your child that there’s more than one way to do something. For example, there’s more than one way to draw a person, build a sandcastle or play a drum. This lets children know they can develop their own ideas. You don’t need to give your child new or expensive play materials. […]
Everyday Ways to Teach Your Kids about God
Sometimes it takes just a simple, heart-to-heart conversation to get kids thinking about God. “Do you feel the wind?” I’ll ask my four-year-old. I will tell her that even though we can’t see the wind, we know it’s there. We see the leaves blowing and hear the trees rustling — the effects of an unseen […]
16 Fun Ways to Keep Your Kid Connected to God
For whatever one sows, that will he also reap (Galatians 6:7) I went to my office weeks after the lockdown was lifted and saw that some of the office plants were at the brink of death lol. The ones inside the office with no sunlight were almost dead but the ones outside did better. They […]
15 Fun Ways to Keep Children Busy Over The Summer Holiday
Remote learning was tiring, and we couldn’t wait for it to be over. Now that it is over, we are left wondering what to do with the kids since this is unusual summer vacation. Some of us want them to take a break from anything online while some of us realise we can’t run away […]
6 Tips for an Excellent Summer School Experience
Many parents are viewing summer holidays with a mix of relief and dread: relief that home schooling/remote learning is coming to an end, and dread on how to keep the children busy for the next month or two. In the past, sending your child to various Summer Camps was the solution during the summer holidays. […]