Biologist turned child psychologist Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland in 1896. Piaget’s studies focused on the intelligence and social awareness of young children. In the 60’s educationalists developed new teaching methods from Piaget’s findings such as ‘learning through play’ and ‘reading readiness’, these methods are still prevalent today.
The idea of egocentric speech [...]

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Who comes first in your house? Your kids, your husband, the dog or….choke….you?
More celeb news fodder from Raising Kids reports that Seal and Heidi (is it just me or is that an odd coupling?) put their own relationship above their kids. They say this is the secret to a happy family life.
Is it selfishness [...]

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Here’s one for you if you have a ‘naughty’ boy or girl this year. Why not trade the old-fashioned lump of coal for this over priced, musical, light-up Time Out Pad

Hours of fun not guaranteed, while you teach your child that you really can’t be bothered monitoring their behaviour and pass the responsibility over [...]

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I’ve hit on a particularly interesting section in ‘You Want To Do What?: Instant answers to your parenting dilemmas‘ which covers morals.
The question was posed “When do children begin to know what is right and wrong?”. The section goes on to explain that there are three levels of development, preconventional, conventional and postconvential. [...]

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Is ADHD a valid illness, or is it a modern day excuse for doctors and parents of energetic children with no outlet?
I am currently reading/reviewing ‘You Want To Do What?: Instant Answers to Your Parenting Dilemmas‘. I was surprised to find that in the section about ADHD, instead of the sympathetic advice usually offered, there [...]

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Abel Cheng of Parent Wonder tipped me off to this article which covers the stories of four different sets of people that have started their own schools. Two of the families because of poor state education, one a specialist autistic shool, and the other specialising in teaching those with dyslexia.
The story that caught my [...]

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The following is an excerpt from a book that I am reading/reviewing - You Want To Do What?
“…the only thing we can give our children of any real value is our time.”
Those words really struck a chord with me when I read them last week, so much so, I wrote them down with [...]

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I’m in the process of reading You Want to Do What? in preparation for a review, it’s throwing up a lot of great discussion points.
Where do you stand on clothing allowances?
The book suggests that fourteen or fifteen is a good age to begin sharing the responsibility of buying clothes. If you plan to give [...]

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As a parent, bestowed on you is a super-power, and no, I’m not talking about breastfeeding (joke) I’m talking about the power to make dreams come true.
In the heads of our little bambinos are hopes and dreams, these dreams transcend age, the dreams may vary, but the dreaming itself does not. The dream might [...]

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I’m really enjoying these discussions, and not only because it’s giving me a chance to work on my epic post - Who is Littlemummy? and get my new site up and running - British Parent Bloggers.
The discussion today is babysitting.
Did you know there is no law for what age a person can legally [...]

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