Over the years, this topic has been much debated by many scholars, teachers and parents. Again, there is a similar discussion about what to do with very intelligent children, whether to keep them in same class with their age mates or to enrich them with special programs or to put them in special schools or […]
I saw the video of that Christland girl’s mother online; you know, as a mother, I felt sad for her. Especially when I read that they suspended her daughter.But something in me said, “Ammann, the children we are raising these days are “wiser” than us their parents. I said ‘wiser’ because that is what they […]
A friend once told me that whenever her mother advices her, she’ll be doubting if actually she was conceived through sex. She said to me that she sees her mother as a virgin because of how she talks and acts especially in sex related matters. She practically sees her mother as a saint! A lot […]
I remember when my son was much younger, his usual haircut was afro galax. He was barbed only this hair style for five consecutive years because it made him look unique or so I thought. Up to his 6th year of age, that was his only hair style. One day we had a visitor who […]
A story was shared some years ago, a story we all must have heard or witnessed something similar to. Let me share the story as copied… A mother asked to use her fifteen year old daughter’s phone for some days while her own phone was being repaired. WhatsApp messages dropped on the phone. Her daughter […]
The behaviour of every child is certainly a factor of the genetic/biological inheritance and the environment/upbringing of that child. These two factors are the core influences in the behaviour of a child and it is important for parents and teachers to understand them, to study the uniqueness of every child in relation to these factors, […]
Since physical development happens naturally in children, there’s need to lay emphasis on social and emotional developments which are nutured by parents/teachers, and influenced by a child’s environment. Thus, most of our articles revolve round the different ways children can achieve utmost socia-emotional development that will help them in the future. One of these is […]