Food for Thought

It is easy for parents to identify their child’s physical needs: nutritious food, warm clothes when it’s cold and bedtime at a reasonable hour. However, a child’s mental and emotional needs may not be as obvious. Good mental health allows children...

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right. Ms Annie Williams, College Counsellor

When children go online, they have direct and immediate access to friends, family and also complete strangers, which can put unsuspecting children at great risk. Children who meet and communicate with strangers online are easy prey for internet...

Why encourage tolerance in our children? To start with, we want our children to feel relaxed and open to learning from different cultures as they bring new ideas, experiences and energy to our lives. Further, to help our children have a successful...

Thirty years ago, children were taught never to accept sweets from strangers, but the equivalent modern message, about staying safe online, doesn't seem to be getting through. For all its positives, the online world is full of potential hazards to...

Sleep is an active phase of the learning process. As parents, the single most important thing we can do to help our children become more effective learners is to ensure they get enough sleep. Sleep is also a vital part of keeping the brain...

Keeping children healthy and happy involves looking after their mental health as well as their physical health. Mental health is about having a healthy mind and body and influences how we feel about ourselves, what we do, how we think and how we...

How to take the stress and anxiety out of raising children. When parents become stressed their stress becomes contagious; children know when their parents are tense and overwhelmed. Data shows that the greatest source of childhood and adolescent...

In the course of his research, leadership expert and author of best-selling psychology books, Dr Tim Elmore, has discovered several major mistakes that parents often make when raising their children. These mistakes can reduce a child’s self-...

Good self-esteem is essential to a child's development. It is the foundation of everything they do and everything they are. It takes confidence to be a kid. Whether they are starting at a new school or playing a sport for the first time, kids face a...