Is Academic Excellence Enough? See What The Research Says Here …
I am one of those people who suffers from thinking way too much. It’s pretty exhausting most of the time but I am just wired that way and find it really hard to switch my mind off. Since becoming a mother the thinking has nearly tipped me over the edge because now it is […]
How to Prepare Your Kids For The Jobs Of The Future
In our house technology is just a part of everyday … there are now more than two online devices for every family member. We try to be quite up to date because part of helping guide our kids it to understand the digital world. Even so, the kids are always teaching me new things that […]
6 Ways to Help Your Teens Take the Stress out of Studying
If you’ve got teens that stress out over studying, you are not alone. It can be so hard as a parent to see your kids worrying about their exams and feeling helpless when you feel like nothing you do helps. MerryCoach parents often ask about strategies to help their kids take the stress out studying […]
Finding Kids Audio Stories To Expand Imagination
We are used to watching stories …. on TV, YouTube and all types of screens but there is something awesome about having to use your imagination to paint the scenes and action. Reading is perhaps the ultimate but before kids can read themselves, that can mean someone having to read to them. I’ve always liked […]
DIY Easy Sight Word Activities
With an eager 5 year old in the house we have once again hit the sight words stage at school and so we have tried to come up with a few simple and cheap activities to keep it interesting. Sight words are all about practice and repetition but that gets boring pretty quick. Many […]
Do You Know How Much Your Local Private School Really Costs?
Both of our children have attended our local state school since we started our family schooling journey. We have been really happy with their education so far and have been thinking more and more about the future. Our eldest is in grade 3 so a few more years of primary school for her until we […]
How I Got My Kids to Practice Spelling Every Day
Actually that isn’t quite true! I didn’t teach them to spell but I did have a simple way of having them practice each day for their weekly spelling tests. When children are in years 2-6 and even older, they often have weekly spelling lists to learn and mine had a weekly test to check on them. […]
Tips for Overcoming a Fear of Public Speaking
One study showed that the #1 fear that people identify is public speaking … #2 was death! As Seinfeld famously said, that means if you are going to a funeral people would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy … Standing up in front of a crowd or even a small group to […]
Why You Should Consider Volunteering on a School Excursion
So your child’s class if going to the museum in a month’s time and the teacher has put the call out for parent volunteers. For some parents this brings on instant feelings of anxiety and dread to the point where they avoid eye contact with the teacher when doing school drop offs. For others […]
How To Smash Any Assignment!
Dealing with assessments is tricky for students as the term finishes and things become due all around the same time. It can be as stressful for parents as it is for those doing the assignments too! Once the thing is due tomorrow there isn’t that much that you can do but if you learn from […]