They say it takes a village to raise a child. The charming, heart-warming ABC series Old People’s Home for Four Year Old’s proves this adage true.
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Parents with a Disability
For a parent, days can feel like a barrage of sniffles and coughs, bumps and bruises – and lots and lots of tears and tantrums. And that’s just the parents! Packing school lunches with healthy snacks, begging your kid to hurry up and get dressed…no, you can’t wear your Spiderman costume to school! Breathing through the frustration in peak hour traffic. It’s a sometimes rough, but always rewarding road.
Youth Suicide
As part of our series highlighting threats to children’s welfare and the ways that we can all help our kids cope with cyberbullying, anxiety and stress, we must confront the greatest impact: youth suicide.
Resilience in Children
School is a valuable environment for children to learn resilience. We’ve touched on resilience previously, as a key skill that underpins how we move through the world; how we make sense of our place in it and our ability to affect positive, momentous change. As educators, we can sensitively explore adversity and building resilience in the classroom. Life is lived forwards and protecting our mental health depends on coping with inevitable change, loss and adversity; in short, resilience.
Fidget Spinner Craze
The fidget spinner craze has died down which makes it an excellent time to take a step back and assess the place of fidget toys in your classroom. At the height of the craze, many teachers banned the spinners, and we can all admit they could be distracting, but for some students, there are genuine advantages to using a fidget in class.
Building Self-Esteem and Confidence Through Rock Painting
Painted rocks are such a great activity for children to do. Building confidence and self-esteem through fun activities is a great way to encourage positive mindsets.
The 5 Secret Benefits of Procrastination
Procrastination has become something of a curse word and art-form in the modern teacher. We have something important that needs to be done and yet, somehow, we find ourselves doing a string of other things instead. Sound familiar? The idea that we’re not working on the “big” projects is seen as a negative. We’re procrastinating, so that must be a bad thing, right? You may be surprised to learn that there are benefits to this practice, some of which you’ll find below.
Every kid needs a champion
Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, “They don’t pay me to like the kids.” Her response: “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.'” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.
Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win
Winners Never Quit And Quitters Never Win
It’s so frustrating as teachers to see capable children quit so easily when an activity or task becomes difficult. We all know quitting is never the answer for success in life, yet perseverance is!