Ireland’s big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives
Interesting article by Zoe Williams in The Guardian (16 October [...]
Mentor: Strategies to Inspire Young People, by Robin Cox
MENTOR: Strategies to Inspire Young People provides over one thousand [...]
When do kids start to care about other people’s opinions?
Sara Valencia Botto’s TED talk on this subject is worth [...]
It Takes a Village: Understanding and Expanding the Concept of the “Village”
This article defines and discusses the concept of the “village” [...]
Gran and me – no more blah blah blah
Although children often have good information on global warming, there [...]
Watching, Listening, Copying – how our kids learn from us
Small children can’t help learning – millions of new neural [...]
For Young Kids, The Power of Play-Based Learning
New research shows play-based learning can be more effective than [...]
Teacher–Child Interaction Quality Fosters Working Memory and Social-Emotional Behavior in Two- and-Three-Year-Old Children
We found evidence that for even children this young, the [...]
Children are Scientists
This week my grand-daughter, who is nearly two, has been [...]
Growing Great Kids 2: Why We Need to Talk with Babies
I was shocked recently to hear that many small children [...]