If you’re reading this, you probably understand the sheer, heart-wrenching worry that comes when your child is out of school—not for a holiday, but because life has thrown your family the biggest, scariest challenge. For us, that challenge has been our son’s cancer treatment and subsequent bone marrow transplant. For over a year, his immune …
To mark International Women’s Day, this blog will focus on my beliefs around why we chronically undervalue ourselves in the tuition industry. Whatever gender you identify as, this is relevant to you. Feminism is about equality across genders. It is about highlighting and challenging patriarchal systems that hold most of us back, regardless of what …
In a parent consultation recently, the issue of giving praise to children came up. Praise is good, right? All children love praise! They won’t achieve anything without it. When I was training to be a teacher back in the noughties, everything was based around praise. Praise for sitting still and listening, praise for writing the …
This was a common question at parent’s evening when I was teaching, and something I’m asked regularly by the parents I work with now as a tutor. My suggestions are below. Other than the first one which is the most important thing you can do to help your child with their learning, the rest are …