A Parent’s Guide to Video Games
Ask a room full of parents how they feel about video games and you will hear the full spectrum, from mild anxiety to outright dread. The image of a child glued to a screen, controller…
Ask a room full of parents how they feel about video games and you will hear the full spectrum, from mild anxiety to outright dread. The image of a child glued to a screen, controller…
Peer pressure gets a bad name, and often for good reason. Yet the same social pull that can steer children towards poor choices can just as easily nudge them towards kindness, effort and ambition. The…
Drama and music tend to be described as enrichment, which is a slightly odd word. It suggests something added on top of the real education, nice to have if there is time. Anyone who has…
Something happens to girls and sport somewhere around the age of eleven or twelve. Participation drops, and it drops much more sharply than it does for boys. It has been a consistent pattern in UK…
You have probably seen the claim: children who learn an instrument do better at school, particularly in maths. It is repeated often enough to feel settled. It is worth looking at more carefully, because the…
Most conversations about bilingual education focus on the obvious benefit: the child ends up with two languages. Useful, clearly. But the more interesting effects are the ones that show up in how a child thinks,…
Choosing A levels at sixteen involves making decisions about a version of yourself you have not met yet. It is genuinely difficult, and the standard advice ("pick what you enjoy", "keep your options open") is…
Ask ten parents what independent schooling means and you will get ten answers, most of them about fees, uniforms or exam results. All of which are real, but none of which get to what actually…
Most parents picture learning as something that happens at a desk. Worksheets, reading records, spellings on the fridge. In reality, a great deal of what young children absorb happens in the gaps: on the walk…
Ask any parent how their child unwinds after school and you'll often get the same answer: they don't, really. Homework spills into screen time, screen time bleeds into a rushed dinner, and bedtime arrives before…
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