Looking For The Real Father Christmas
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein. Inspecting a school on a dreary day at the end of
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point of view
Point of view
Festival Fusion
Brief history of Halloween for kids. These days, Halloween may be one coherent celebration, but a whole mix of (sometimes opposing) cultures and traditions has gone into making it the festival we know and love today.
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Squelchy Dirt, Daisy Chains and The Long Holidays
Research shows a lot of kids never experienced simple outdoor activities like walking through the mud, kicking up autumn leaves or climbing the trees comparing to the older generation. Use the long holidays to provide these experiences to your children.
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Friends of South Park, Cheadle Hulme
‘Friends of South Park’ is a small community group formed by local mums with the aim to improve the recreational, environmental and educational facilities of South Park (Grove Lane, Cheadle Hulme)
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Adam’s Tale
One of the most important developments in early childhood is the onset of the capacity to control ourselves and ultimately, achieve self-control and discipline. This is different from the control which is imposed by outsiders like parents and teachers. As children grow into independence, the opportunities to impose discipline diminish dramatically.
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Damned if you do and damned if you don’t…
Motherism prejudice hits stay-at-home mums where it hurts and working mums criticised for parenting approach and “lack of focus“. Can women ever win this war? Ultimately shouldn’t we, ”be celebrating that women have choices now”?
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Father Figure
The womanly figure is synonymous with child care. One question comes to my mind – where is the father? While it’s true, fathers have only recently started to take a greater interest in the upbringing of children, I think that a father has certain privileges, nay, responsibilities which are distinct from a mother’s relationship with a child.
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Is Your Child More Clever Than You?
New research in the UK suggests that half of parents believe their child is more intelligent than themselves, as 48% confessed that their child would probably beat them in an IQ test.
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American Dad
…Having grown up in different countries, with different ways of life, we both wanted our son to grow up as we did. So the question was – US or UK? Did one of us have to forfeit to the other, or was there a way to, hopefully, integrate our two cultures so that Jude could get the best of both worlds? .
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