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How to develop resilience

26 December, 2015 by farhan 1 Comment

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Hi everyone, recently I was lucky enough to attend a talk by @davidsjtait (https://twitter.com/DavidSJTait) on how to develop reslience, I started to skethcnote the talk out, it was so insightful that I decided to make a video on the key points on how to develop resilience – let’s take a look at it and then […]

Filed Under: learning resources Tagged With: balance, education, frustration, parenting

how to set a Raspberry Pi 2 up in five minutes – parent guide

26 April, 2015 by farhan Leave a Comment

The Raspberry Pi 2 - a parent's guide

Hi everyone, in this blog post I’ll show you how you can set up a Raspberry Pi 2 from box to boot up in under 5 mins. I bought myself a Raspberry Pi 2 the other week having done a lot of research on it, I picked up this Raspberry Pi 2 starter kit up […]

Filed Under: learning resources Tagged With: education, parenting, raspberry pi

computer programming for kids

7 September, 2014 by farhan Leave a Comment

how to teach your chldren to prgramme computers

Hi guys, I’m very happy to have a guest blogger Andrew Mills, posting about a super way to teach computer programming for kids, Andrew’s going to talk about why it’s important for children to be able to code and is going to introduce a very clever and fun way to teach children about coding.  You […]

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6 lessons that sports can teach us that school doesn’t

1 January, 2014 by farhan 1 Comment

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I was thinking that when I try to explain some important life lessons to my kids I tend to think in terms of sporting metaphors, like a four year old and one year old need sporting metaphors from the 90s and 00s.  The point being that active participation in sport can teach children so many […]

Filed Under: learning resources Tagged With: aggression, aggressive behavior, aggressive behaviour, children's behaviour, education, relationships, sports day, teaching

Working Dad – writing journey part II: Deciding on the best concept for the book cover design

4 December, 2013 by farhan Leave a Comment

choosing the book cover concept

  After I finished the seventh draft of the book, I sent it to my editor.  I had a few weeks before she would come back with her feedback so I started to work on the book cover design.   There were three main cover ideas that I had, I then spent the next few […]

Filed Under: learning resources Tagged With: balance, freelance, job hunting, money, not spending time with children, time management, working, working late, working parent

How to be wise

18 November, 2013 by farhan 1 Comment

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I found this great video on YouTube on how to be wise.  It goes through the accepted definition of being wise and whether it’s still appropriate in today’s world.  What I found most interesting in this where the speaker Simon Cohen talks about children and how we misintrept thier behaviour (13 mins).  I agree with […]

Filed Under: learning resources Tagged With: children's behaviour, learning, parenting, thinking

Teaching your kids to read and write when you are not there

11 July, 2013 by farhan 1 Comment

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If you are working long hours or are away a lot on business how can you still teach young children how to read and write and to count?  Well teaching them to write will be a challenge, but teaching kids to read and counting is relatively easy to teach while you are away. Whether you […]

Filed Under: learning resources Tagged With: alphabet, education, letters, parenting, reading skils, teaching, working, working parent, writing skills


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