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Eight Lessons Our Kids Learnt The Hard Way

May 31, 2010
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Eight Lessons Our Kids Learnt The Hard Way

When it comes to learning life lessons, nothing beats personal experience. Sometimes it is not enough to tell a child not to do something. Elaborate explanations don’t work and there are times when the wealth of our experience does not mean much to them. Sometimes, children just need to experience it for themselves. Here...

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4 PC Games For Playing And Learning

May 10, 2010
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4 PC Games For Playing And Learning

Children are very much digital natives who tend to gravitate towards the computer and all things digital. What better way, then, to sneak in some learning than on the computer. There are many good software available that entertain and teach at the same time. Here are four that young children will love. My First...

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Freedom To Be Nurtures Creative Spark In Kids

March 28, 2010
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Freedom To Be Nurtures Creative Spark In Kids

All children exhibit a potential for creativity, just as all children show a potential for intelligence. Unlike intelligence, however, not many children get to live up to their promise for being creative. This is primarily due to the fact that every child’s creativity is not properly nurtured, says Ashfaq Ishaq, executive director of the...

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Get Crafty With Everyday Items

March 14, 2010
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Get Crafty With Everyday Items

The next time you are about to throw out a used container or an old t-shirt or the cardboard roll that holds the paper towels, think again—your kids may find it useful. Children love fantasy. And they enjoy working with their hands, learning as they go along. With a little bit of imagination and...

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PC Games Help Kids Think Better

February 28, 2010
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PC Games Help Kids Think Better

As parents, we can’t help but worry about the effects that digital games have on our children. Will playing too many digital games affect their studies? Are these games too violent? Will they harm our children’s eyesight? Do they encourage thinking skills? For those of us who are digital immigrants, it can take a...

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Homeschooling Delivers The Goods

January 17, 2010
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Homeschooling Delivers The Goods

As homeschoolers, we find that we are often asked to justify our decision to raise our children outside the school system. We are constantly bombarded with queries about our homeschooling from all quarters: the sincerely concerned, the intellectually curious, the secretly disapproving, the intensely doubtful and the hopeful wannabes. Homeschooling is quickly moving into...

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Homeschooling Is Parenting

December 22, 2009
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Homeschooling Is Parenting

As part of our Interview Series, we talk to David Tan, father of two and a homeschool advocate in Malaysia who has been providing a voice for the many homeschooling families mushrooming in the country. Like most parents, David would like to see his children achieve their full potential and make a difference to...

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Love, The Basis Of All True Learning

November 28, 2009
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Love, The Basis Of All True Learning

Not too long ago scientists believed that babies were born with their brains completely wired but new research has since revealed that the brain carries on growing at a very rapid pace, especially during the first three years of life. Newborns arrive with about 100 billion neurons or brain cells, which form connections called...

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Brain Research Supports Montessori Method

September 29, 2009
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Brain Research Supports Montessori Method

“Spotlight the good and the good will grow” According to Phyllis Wallbank, this was one of Maria Montessori’s most profound ideas. Children need positive remarks and attention and if parents are too busy to provide these in sufficient quantities, they will resort to behaving badly in order to get the attention that they need....

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How to Practise the Piano

September 13, 2009
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How to Practise the Piano

To practise means to repeat with intention. To this end, music teachers should bring parents into lessons and show them how their children should practise at home.  Put another way, parents should make it a point to sit in to lessons and find out what their children should be doing during practice time at...

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