With more time on our hands thanks to the lockdown, it’s understandable that many parents, like me, have started thinking about how little time we have left with our precious children.
After all, your kids will eventually leave home, either for university or to start their own family. When they do move out, you need to make sure that they have all the adult insight and skills they…
Throughout the lockdown and forced self-isolation, my musical skills have helped meovercome loneliness and de-motivation. I have recently spoken with Louise Gregg, Music Therapist from Nordoff Robbins, who has told me about a music therapy project in collaboration with TV programme The Clangers.
Q: Louise, tell us about this project you have been working on with Clangers…why is it…
The UK is currently on lockdown for at least another couple of weeks due to the worldwide outbreak of coronavirus. And with most of us spending more time than ever at home either on furlough or working remotely, it might feel like there’s never been a better time to introduce a new puppy to the family. After all, now you’re at home all day every day, you have all the time in the world to spend…
The closure of schools in response to the Coronavirus pandemic has meant millions of mums and dads are having to add the job of full-time teacher to their already full-time work schedule. I’ve askedMurray Morrison, one of the UK’s leading learning and education experts, to give us some advice. He is the founder of online learning program Tassomai.com which is widely used within UK…
I am sure that your kids are adorable, but I bet that they are not the tidiest. This becomes abundantly clear when they are at home for prolonged periods of time, like during the coronavirus lockdown. Some helping hands to prevent the home descending into chaos would be a boon for busy parents. But how do you get your kids to do cleaning when we find it such a chore?
It is not as difficult as…
In the matter of a few weeks the coronavirus has or will soon change most of our comfortable family routines. I could rattle off a list of “non screen” activities for parents to encourage at home during this “social distancing” period like board games, painting, trampoline, card games…. the list goes on. But most parents, especially those with older children, will rebut through gritted…
The current COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented and whilst many of us see the news and social media as a source of vital information, it can also be overwhelming for many of us, especially young children.Children do need to be informed of the facts during this pandemic and be advised on how they can help prevent the spread of infection, because it isunlikely that they will be able to…
Last year I attended a local parenting course in Wandsworth to prepare myself for the challenges ahead of bringing up a teenager. We discussed a lot about ways to reward a child for good behaviour and / or excellent performance at school.
It is important to motivate children and reward them when they do something right or when they display emotional intelligence through a particularly sympathetic…
Parents have a lot to fret about in these digital days. Newsletters from school and articles on the Internet coach us about monitoring our children’s activity and time on the Internet. But what if the greatest threat to children’s online well-being doesn’t come from strangers, peers, social media or screen time? What if the danger has less to do with their social media activity, and more to…
There’s always change in the air, but it does seem like as a society we’ll be going through a change that’s more profound than anything we’ve seen in a long time. Climate change is going to direct us in one way or another; we’ll either get wise, and make changes that prevent the worst-case scenarios from happening, or we won’t, and we’ll go through a period of adjusting to the new…