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| Many adults find it difficult to talk with their children about sex, especially as kids themselves may find it hard. Here are 10 great tips on how to engage your child in formulating approaches to life issues which will inform their whole lives ...more |
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| We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I’d like better. ...more |
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| While many of us in the West take our education for granted there are so many who are denied the basic human right to learn in underprivileged countries, especially girls. ...more |
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| Unschooling is more than an education – it’s life. In natural learning, everything is connected. Our children have gone from classical music to art, architecture, and ancient Rome, and from there to philosophy, Plato, Pythagoras and mathematics... ...more |
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| Australia's own home-based learning community has created a rich tapestry of grassroots networks of folks simply getting on with the job of facilitating learning experiences for their children. ...more |
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| The average Australian child watches about four hours of television a day! Videos, computer and Playstation games add to the amount of time children spend staring at a screen. How does all this viewing affect their developing minds?
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| From birth onwards, babies learn by watching the household activities of their parents. We can help them discover their world by carrying them on our bodies in a baby carrier as we tidy, sweep, wash up and prepare food.
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| Why are chores important for children’s development, and which chores are appropriate for what age? Michele Dennis tells us more.
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| We want the best for our children, so it's easy to think the latest technology of our time will benefit them, but does it?
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| 'If our earth is to survive, we need to take responsibility for what we do. Taking control of our education is the first step.'
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| Alice, the mother of a seven-year-old son, Nathan, recently visited my office for a counseling session. Nathan had reportedly been different and difficult from the beginning. ...more |
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| Do bulging backpacks mean learning? Is the teacher who gives out lots of homework helping students to learn or actually undermining them? With his new book, 'The Homework Myth', expert Alfie Kohn says homework is outdated.
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| Traditionally, being 'smart' has meant having high academic test scores. While this definition may have served us well in the past, for children to succeed in today's world, we need to redefine what 'smart' really means. ...more |
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| • Children are born with Down’s Syndrome approximately one in 700 births.
• It is a misconception to think that children with Down’s Syndrome are born to women over 35 years.
• Two-thirds of all children with Down’s Syndrome are born to mothers under 35 ...more |
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| Hang out at a playground, visit a school, or show up at a child's birthday party, and there's one phrase you can count on hearing repeatedly: 'Good job!'
Here's why it may not be the best thing to say. Even tiny infants are praised for smacking their h ...more |
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| The first five years of a child’s life is a window of opportunity for laying foundations through stimulating experiences for their overall development.
Cynthia Ensign Baney, an early childhood music consultant and composer states that the opportunity to ...more |
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| Today’s mounting social and ecological crises demand responses that are broad, deep, and strategic. Given the widespread destruction wrought by globalisation, it seems clear that the most powerful solutions will involve a fundamental change in direction — ...more |
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| Our modern system of grading everything our children do does not support kids to really learn, but rather to just be as good or bad as everyone else. If a high achiever receives 80% we are happy, but that means he or she has not learned 20% of the curricu ...more |
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| World wide community gardens are springing up and with them a growing sense of community, of belonging. Local food, being responsible for and engaged in food production is transforming communities, bringing people together and breaking down the barriers. ...more |
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| I first encountered boredom as a child growing up in a big family in Idaho. In the summers, after chores, my mother would push us out the back door into a seemingly dull landscape of wheat fields and irrigation ditches. 'Find something to do!' she would o ...more |
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| Adolescents are a mystery to many adults — especially their parents.
It is a time when three of the great changes of human life occur:
the ability to reproduce, the establishment of an identity and the formal commencement of logical, rational, reasoned ...more |
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| Hapkido, the Way of Harmonious Power, is a dynamic Korean martial art.
Its philosophy draws from Asian spiritual wisdom, including the Buddhist values of non-violence and respect for all life. The long-term aim of training is the cultivation of many posi ...more |
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| I've been a home school mum for over a year now. Something to be proud of, I know. Initially I was happy if I survived month..then a term...and now with a little bit of hindsight I'm kind of thinking that maybe its not so hard after all. ...more |
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| A garden at ones school may in fact be of greater education value than the normal curriculum. To learn and understand permaculture techniques, the seasons, how plants grow and how it feels to eat from a garden, that vegies and fruit grow in soil not shops ...more |
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| The distinction between work (as in homework) and real learning is best appreciated by distinguishing between knowledge, with its implicit conditioning, and intelligence, which expresses naturally in the state of authentic play.
Each age and stage of a c ...more |
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| Often we had problems with authority as kids so dealing with teachers and headmasters can be intimidating, even of we happen to be older than the authority. However, in order to serve our child's needs, we need to speak up. David West gives some tips he ...more |
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| First, the bad news. The chances of your child being bullied at school in one way or another are about 50-50. Does that sound bad? Not necessarily. The likelihood is that it will be no more than an episode, relatively mild and of short duration - for a fe ...more |
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| How teenagers cope with their burgeoning hormones and their relationship to their sexuality has been a source of stress for parents in the West for 50 years. Tim Hartnett and Amy Cooper explore the issue of teenage sexuality ...more |
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| In a well-known education journal, a computer hardware ad depicts an empty classroom, with computers on each desk. Outside in the background is an empty schoolyard. The children are clustered off to one side, faces pressed against the classroom window pee ...more |
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| Watch kids playing outside with no rules or coaches to govern their behaviour and you will see the magical unfolding of bodies swinging, stooping, throwing, racing, and twirling in space. ...more |
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| It was in the early 1970s that I was first introduced to storytelling. I was privileged to work in the Steiner school system where my teaching style was greatly enriched by their story-centred curriculum. ...more |
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| Given the dangers and environmental costs associated with plastics, more and more people are turning back to wooden toys. It is, however, still important to check on the origins and manufacturing ethics of all toys, wooden and otherwise. ...more |
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| Our society allows us to find it cute when a child is shy, but after a certain point it seems to become annoying. Often some kids are just shy, and may be shy adults. In this piece Jan Hunt explores the idea of supporting children in their shyness without ...more |
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| There was a time when my three children were television nuts. At any point during the day, you could walk through my house and hear everything from Power Rangers and Rugrats coming from my daughter’s room to heavy metal music and the World Wrestling Feder ...more |
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