Travelling to new places is a wonderful bonding opportunity for parents and children and a terrific educational experience. We have previously written about the power of experiential learning and family vacations are a natural extension of that. In … [Read more]
How to Increase Your Child’s Competitive Fire
In our earlier posts, we wrote about how competition benefits our children and how genetics can affect our children's disposition towards competition. In this post, we're going to look at how we can increase our children's competitive fire. 3 Things … [Read more]
Being Competitive – Warriors vs Worriers
We have always examined competition from the point of view of how it can benefit a child's development but we have never examined how individual children might respond to competition. We know that children are 50% what nature has given them and 50% … [Read more]
From Cadbury with Love – a Sweet, Chocolate Experience
G2 is learning about chocolate at school as part of his enquiry unit. One of the projects he is working on involves the research and development of a fictitious chocolate treat. After conducting some market research, his team will have to design and … [Read more]
Scribd – Read Without Limits
Listening to audio books in the car is something we have done since the boys were little. We started with CDs and moved on to audiobook apps when we discovered how handy and economical it was to have a library of books on my smart phone. Then … [Read more]
Adventure Learning – How Experiential Learning Empowers Your Child
Adventure Learning is an approach used to design online and hybrid education that provides students with opportunities to investigate and experience authentic topics within collaborative learning environments. - Veletsianos, G. (2012) Adventure … [Read more]
