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…
Blog – Parenting
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…
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…