Peer Relationships; What’s My Role As A Parent?
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10 thoughts that can help you determine your stand on this matter.
It's always a joy for a parent to witness their...
Learning Difficulties and Parental Support; 8 things you need to bear...
Parenting with Joanne
A learning difficulty typically affects the processes involved in acquiring knowledge and using skills to the normal level expected of those of...
5 things you say every day, that may not make sense...
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Rarely do we pay attention to the fact that toddlers are still merely learning to understand the daily lives of the adults...
Consequences VS Punishments; four points to consider
Your teenager breaks curfew again. Your ten year old comes home from school with yet another pencil case missing. Your five year old has...
5 ways to say “NO” without actually saying it.
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If you have been a parent long enough, you would have come across circumstances in which you question your child; “Didn’t I...
3 reasons why we DON’T, and why we SHOULD allow ‘walking’
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By the time a young child is 15 months old, he or she, in most cases has acquired the coordination needed for...
All Play and No Work?
As parents with pressing responsibilities around the clock, do we pay attention to our children playing? Yes! I said playing. Is playtime a regular...
Literacy and your child; 8 simple steps for the holiday month
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Literacy is simply explained as the ability to read and write. In my opinion, a very persistent challenge in a child having...
5 questions that parents of preschoolers should ask teachers
Preschool years essentially serve as a foundation for varying learning experiences that are to come. Very often, though, these early child education years are...
Five Ways To Make Your Home ‘Toddler Friendly’
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So much of effective parenting lies in the ability to identify and affect the details in your child’s areas of development. I...
Ways to Keep your Children Safe and Happy Amidst the COVID-19...
Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, government authorities have taken safety measures to curb the transmission of the virus, by closing schools...
How to take away from the stress around exams! 5 points...
Parenting with Joanne
As the school calendar rolls into exam time, it is not uncommon for parents and children to feel some amount of pressure...











