With 20 million children actively using Facebook, how do we let our children keep up with technology while also protecting them from cyber bullying? A survey last year by Consumer Reports magazine found that more than one-third of Facebook’s child users were under 13, so were using it illegally. Even more shocking, more than 5…
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Queen Bees Torment the Nice Girls
Internationally, high schools are feeding grounds for social cliques, strategic playground seating arrangements, cyber bullying and mean girl queen bees who torment the nice kids who fall prey to them. For a parent, it is heartbreaking to stand on the sidelines watching these girls rule the school. In an article titled Five Steps for Taking…
What Should You Ask the Schools?
For some parents, the range of boarding school options on offer is daunting. With more than 30 schools in one location at some of our Expo sites, there is a lot of information to digest. Our Checklist of questions to ask schools when you are trying to make a decision about your child’s education is…
More parents ‘enrolling young children in boarding schools’
An interesting article in the The Telegraph (UK) by Education Editor, Graeme Paton… Rising numbers of young children are being sent to boarding schools as recession-hit parents are forced to work longer hours in the downturn, it emerged today. Prep schools are reporting a rise in the number of boarders. Photo: PA Figures show almost 14,000 pupils…
Bullying
Schoolyard bullying has been in the media recently, with Australia holding its first National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence. Parenting organisation Generation Next estimates that 25% of school children suffer at the hands of some kind of bullying to the degree that it affects their mental health and wellbeing. The Bullying No Way…
Let Your Children Solve Their Own Problems
He or she who owns a problem, solves the problem. It’s a simple philosophy and one that Australia’s leading parenting educator, Michael Grose promotes as a guiding principles in his parenting handbook, Thriving! Michael believes that problem-ownership promotes responsibility. It also emphasises maturity, as solving issues that you own is a mark of growing maturity…
Dangers of Facebook
With employers looking at Facebook and other social media as part of the reference checking process during recruitment these days, it’s important that parents educate children about the dangers of social media – not only the identity theft and cyber bullying issues, but also on the impacts of irresponsible comments. Recently, a US Congressman was…