Do You Worry About Your Child Making Friends?

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Roo was quiet when I picked her up from school yesterday, last night she cried for an hour for my mum.  Words poured from her mouth like ‘my heart will crack if I don’t see my nanmar’.   My heart hurt for her that I couldn’t fix what she wanted last night other than to offer a phone call to nanmar so they could say good night.  Tonight when  I picked her up from school she said in the car, ‘no one played with me today mummy’. This made me sad.  She’s the oldest in her class other than one other [...] Read more »

How do you deal with your kids being naughty at school?

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I don’t think I am going to be the only parent who has found out about their kids being naughty at school but something happened yesterday at school and I think I dealt with it the right way.  When I picked Roo up she had a sticker on her coat saying Well Done.  I asked her what it was for and she said it was because she’d had her ‘listening ears’ on and had told the story to the class.  I was proud of her for listening as we’ve been working really hard on this with her at home and [...] Read more »

Making the right choices for your child

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Sometimes as parents it seems pretty obvious in making the right choices for your child, other times it isn’t so easy.  Take recently the whole dilemma we’ve had with Roo’s nursery, the decision to go or not to go to school in September and continue in a paid pre-school – that was one that took a lot of thinking about and still the end result didn’t sit comfortably with me. So much so that I’ve been beating myself up terribly emotionally about it for the last two weeks.  Roo is so looking forward to going to school in September and [...] Read more »

Which qualities should the perfect primary school teacher have?

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Let’s face it, the perfect primary school teacher is hard to find. None of us are flawless, and teachers are no exception. If you did stumble across the ideal, however, it is likely that he or she would possess most if not all of the following qualities: Enthusiasm and energy Running around after kids all day is exhausting. Every parent knows it, and that is only when dealing with one or two children in your own home. Multiply that by ten, and then try to maintain your enthusiasm for teaching! The perfect primary school teacher has to be passionate about [...] Read more »