by Dr. Patricia Porter     There is tremendous excitement in the air about parents supporting children’s learning.  And here is why: it is the best way to ensure that children succeed in school.  However, knowing how to help your child can be an uphill battle. With so much information (and misinformation!)out there how do you know that you are doing the right thing?  ...read more »

by the Editor     TV and the Internet all provide unprecedented learning opportunities for our children, but when our children’s screen time starts eating into other important areas, such as homework assignments and reading, our children’s school performance can suffer.  ...read more »

by the Editor     Can electronic games help children with their learning?  Two primary schools have put this theory to the test with some amazing results, but can gaming also be used effectively at home?  Or are these games just a waste of time, or even worse, detrimental to children’s development?  ...read more »

by Larelle Stagg     Have you noticed how quickly kids are growing up these days? I remember when childhood was about ice-cream vans and mud pies, riding bikes freely around the street and building ‘impenetrable’ forts. Now it seems that if our kids aren’t participating in any number of extra-curricular activities,  ...read more »

by the Editor It has long been understood that up to 85 per cent of brain development occurs in the first three years of life. How we interact with children during these years can determine how they learn and behave for the rest of their lives.  ...read more »

by Dr. Patricia Porter Kindergarten and prep teachers know; they know which children will be easy to teach and which children will be difficult to teach because they will struggle to learn. It has nothing to do with how intelligent a child is, or whether they know how to write their names.  ...read more »

by Ryan Chadwick Candle, shelf, license, tornado.  Believe it or not, a bunch of random words like these could have a huge impact on your child's future.  More on that later.  Creative thinking.  It is difficult to define, near impossible to measure, yet it is possibly the most important asset your kids can have.  ...read more »

by Dr. Kristy Goodwin     Despite the proliferation of computers and other digital technologies in classrooms today, many teachers would argue that handwriting is not an obsolete skill. While many children in today’s classrooms appear more comfortable with a keyboard and mouse than a pencil, handwriting is  ...read more »

by the Editor     There is much debate today about the over-protectiveness of parents, sheltering children from a very different world to the one many of us knew as children.  As a generation of parents raising young children, we are doing things for our kids well beyond the time at which they would be capable of doing things for themselves. 

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