I’ve got two in high school this year – Year 7 and Year 8 – but we still feel really new to it all. Especially the workload. Trying to help two not-very-organised kids get organised at high school is doing my head in. I tried to find some tips for high school organisation around the …
High school
There is not much scarier than raising teens. We all sniggered and laughed at our ‘threenager’, but nothing is quite as crazy as a teen mid rebellion. They will fight you for independence, but only if it’s not too scary and they don’t need to do much. They will fight you for responsibility, but only …
Our eldest child went to a Montessori preschool and I learned such a lot from his lovely teacher. One of the first things she taught me was to foster independence. This meant not doing things for children that they are perfectly capable of doing themselves. When you’re in preschool, this means this like carrying your …
I was just about to rattle off a really great article with my most useful homework tips, but I stopped. I mean, how useful is one person’s advice really? Every home is different, every family is different, every kid and mum and thing is different. So, instead, I asked a bunch of my mum friends …
My eldest son Max says he’s ready for high school. “We’re forming a gang, Mum,” he tells me. “It’s gonna have all the boys from my class who are going to our high school in it. We might ask other boys on the first day too. There’s gonna be 20, maybe even 100 year 7 …