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Your child’s village

You know the saying, “it takes a village to raise a child”? Who is in your child’s village? You can populate the village – don’t think it will happen by itself, you need to make sure you have a great group around your children. Supporting your child’s teachers is important to your child’s upbringing, says […]

Improve at school

Walking to school

Being married to a teacher and, as a parent, here are some simple things you can do with your children, that will have a huge impact on their schooling. PICTURE: note thanun/Unsplash Be interested and positive about school. Ask your children what they did each day, show interest. Support the teacher. Help them with their homework. […]

Read to your kids

Reading to children

Being married to a teacher and, as a parent, I can tell you one of the simplest things you can do with your children, that will have the biggest impact on their schooling. Are you ready? PICTURE: Picsea/Unsplash Read to them, every night. Doesn’t really matter what you read, but a children’s Bible is a classic. […]

Re-parenting

Parent with children

Many of our personal problems can be traced back to the way we were parented. Were we encouraged or ignored? Loved or Abandoned? Emptied of ego, taught to move from wants to needs? To care for others? PICTURE: Julianne Liebermann/Unsplash The research around this is challenging. Often what we need is re-parenting. Who will do that for […]

Parents and children

Children on a bench

All the research tells us, and all school teachers know, that most of the issues children have are simply echoes of their parent’s issues. Of course, no parent wants to hear that. PICTURE: Piron Guillaume/Unsplash Why? Because faced with our faults, we feel shame – and shame shuts us down. What a terrible catch-22. How […]