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Are your children socially confident?
A happy New Year to all parents! What a start to the year with schools closed and everyone snowed in; except us – we seem to be the only place in the UK without snow. There is a little piece of the UK from Ringwood to Bournemouth that has somehow missed the weather and we [...]
Happy Christmas to All!
We subscribe to “laughter is the best medicine” – so please take a minute to look at our Christmas message to you from our family!
When confidence turns into arrogance
I had a somewhat depressing experience yesterday. I was invited to a mixed Public School to run a session on preparing for Oxbridge interviews. I was really looking forward to it and the member of staff who invited me was excited about giving his pupils something extra that most school pu;pils are not taught. So [...]
Words and their (very funny) interpretation
I just had to share this with you. I was sent these recently by a friend, and not only are they laugh out loud funny, they are also a very good illustration of what I am always banging on about. By the way, my 10 year old said, “what’s so funny; that’s just what I [...]
“Parenting is about a relationship not a set of instructions”
“Parenting is about a relationship, not a set of instructions”. I read this statement on Twitter a few days ago and realised how much it resonated with me. A great parent is one who has a great relationship with their child. How do we know when we have a great relationship? Of course, everyone will [...]
Stress or confidence?
For those of you who have school aged children, how do you feel now that your children have gone back to school? Sad, pleased, mixed feelings about it? Well, my children have finally gone back to school and I can start to get down to business again. I love having them around, [...]
The summer holidays are upon us!
My children have broken up from school already. School holidays are a time for mixed emotion for me as I try to balance working and being with them, having no childcare. It’s not easy but it is my choice. Why, we thought years ago, do we run our own company from home and still have [...]
What we all have in common with Michael Jackson
Whatever you may have thought about Michael Jackson, from extraordinary performer to weird and damaged, you will have thought something. Everybody over about six years old will have some memories of him and his music that will live on with us. I have been surprised that my children know so much about him and can [...]
They Should Know Better
A daughter of a friend of mine has just gone to a new secondary school and was having her first clarinet lesson with her new teacher. This thirteen year old girl is a music scholar and very gifted on the clarinet. And yet this teacher decided to tell her that her technique isn’t very good [...]
Negative to Positive Relationship
Here’s another one from a corporate training I was running in San Francisco. Over lunch I was talking about “Flying Start” to one of the group who is a mother of two, Ann.
Ann told me this story of how she managed her daughter’s negative experience with her new Second Grade teacher. This teacher, Mrs. Johnson [...]
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