Communication, Kids and Culture
The kids are all back at school, some will have just started, or moved to a new one, and parents all over the land will be worrying about them settling in OK. When you’re a parent there’s always something new … Read More
Which start of term is the most difficult one of the year? ‘Back to school’ is a phrase that always strikes dread in my heart at any time of the year; I’ve obviously been programmed to feel this way since … Read More
Having spent a year sitting in this exact position where I am sitting now, in front of my lap-top writing my book I have decided that all things Communicating with Kids could do with a break, so this post is … Read More
I’ve always hated homework, I’ll set out my stall from the start so that you know in advance that in this subject I am biased. I remember as a child the awful misery of Sunday evenings trying to get all … Read More
It’s that time of year again. Off they go back to school and everything in our household ran smoothly up until the last minute when my daughter realised she couldn’t find her school skirt. That’s a fairly necessary piece of … Read More
I know helping kids is part of our job as parents and I know that children of course sometimes need our help. Very often though they actually don’t, but we give it anyway. Whatever it is that you give your … Read More
When it comes to our children, the things we worry about are endless. I’m sure the media doesn’t help. If I see one more article with the headline ‘Is your child too…?’ I am going to…um…not read it. We don’t … Read More
Recently I have been getting Behaviour Recommendation reports for my daughter from school into my inbox at an alarming rate and it’s making me nervous. It’s not that I’ve never had these before for my sons, just that there’s been … Read More
It’s funny how when our children say things, we can hear something different. Take ‘I don’t want to go to school today’: Sometimes we hear ‘I WON’T go to school today’ (‘Well you have to go’) Sometimes we hear ‘I’m … Read More