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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 […]

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computer programming for kids

7 September, 2014 by farhan Leave a Comment

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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

baby’s first day at nursery – learning to let go

25 November, 2013 by farhan Leave a Comment

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Letting your child go to nursery for the first time on their own is a massive leap of faith, up until this point the child may have fully been in your, your partners, your family or friends care the whole time.   This is the first step you and your child have achieved to their […]

Filed Under: work life balance Tagged With: balance, education, frustration, not spending time with children, nursery, quality time, reading skils, relationships, teaching, work life balance

Comparing your child to others – should you do it?

4 November, 2013 by farhan Leave a Comment

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A lot’s been written and spoken about comparing your child to others, whether their your own kids or other kids, we all know that it can be damaging to the self confidence of the child to compare them and their achievements to others.  But in the real world, grown ups are compared to each other […]

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How much TV should I let my child watch?

12 August, 2013 by farhan 2 Comments

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‘Don’t let you children watch TV it will pollute their minds!’  Well there are truths, lies and partial truths. I think that this is a partial truth, I would substitute certain channels in here rather than the concept of TV as a whole. When I had one child I would put the TV on in […]

Filed Under: children's behaviour Tagged With: balance, children's behaviour, education, letting children watch TV, not spending time with children, parenting, relationships, second child, time management, TV, watching TV, work life balance

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 […]

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