The Summer holidays are approaching and the kids will be off school for nearly two months! We've heard a lot about the Summer Learning Loss that occurs when the kids take these long breaks away from school. To guard against these losses, it's … [Read more]
DIY Chocolate Bouquet with Felt Flowers
G1 played Cogsworth at our Primary School Musical - Beauty and the Beast. It was the first time he's ever participated in the school musical and we were so proud of his efforts. When a friend asked if I was going to get him a bouquet of flowers for … [Read more]
DIY Bonnet Instructions for Costumes and Dress-Up
This year, our Primary school is putting on the musical "Beauty and the Beast". Drama and musical theater are terrific extra-curricular activities for child development so I was delighted when G1 joined the production this year. To support his … [Read more]
Guest Post: Dream Destinations for Family Vacations
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]
