Home schooling is a surprising new reality for lots of working parents. I have two young children – aged 8 (year 4) and 11 (year 6) – and now home school is suddenly part of our family week! To supplement the work sent from school – reading, maths practice, play, film watching, and all that …
Family comes first. With a heady mix of love and selfishness, ambition and hope, parents guard and support their children. It is no real surprise then to read in the latest Sutton Trust report – labelled ‘Parent Power’ – that many parents take direct action when it comes to the schooling of their children. The …
It is an act repeated the world over: children trundle home with their spelling lists to learn and parents dutifully help them prepare for the dreaded spelling test at the end of the week. I’m father to a young daughter who is very intent on doing well in such spelling tests, but who can sometimes …
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