When I heard a friend of mine was about to buy her 7 year old daughter a mobile phone I was horrified, what possible need could a 7 year old have for a mobile phone? Her daughter has already offered to do household chores in exchange for credit to use on ringtones and texting.
The reason [...]
Recently a friend of mine decided to quit her job as an extremely well paid PA with a jet setter life-style to train as a nursery nurse, at the time she announced it to myself and a few other friends we were all gobsmacked, the decision she said was based on the huge amount of [...]
The minute the school bell rings for the summer holidays all thoughts of reading books are out of the window for most children, this can be a bad thing when it comes to returning to school after the summer as some of the literacy skills they have learnt are lost and children may find it [...]
According to a major study led by Nevada University, in the United States
“Keeping just 20 books in the home can boost children’s chances of doing well at school”
It is claimed that children with regular access to books do better in school than those whose book shelves at home are empty, and apparently stay in school [...]
Jamie Oliver has changed school dinners and he now has his sights set on improving education. The well known TV chef is himself dyslexic and left school with very few qualifications he is now on the road to setting up his own school with the intention of helping teenagers who have struggled [...]
