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2015 Reflections on Education and Child Development
It’s the start of a brand new year and the perfect time to reflect upon resolutions for 2015 – although these thoughts on child development and education that have been on my mind for a while now… The...
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The Value of Being Humble – Teaching Humility to Children
For 2015, my goal as a parent is to focus even more on the character development of my boys. One particular value I have been thinking about lately is humility. At first glance, humility probably...
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Parental Guidance Recommended – Keeping Pace with Digital Media
“Television and other entertainment media should be avoided for infants and children under age 2. Children and teens should engage with entertainment media for no more than one or two hours per day,...
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Life Lessons for Children: Learning from Failure
There are many lessons in life I would love to teach my children. Sometimes I don’t have the words to express them adequately so when I see videos like these, I try to save them so I can share them...
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Parenting: Why Dads Matter – The Essential Role of the Father
Photo Source: Pinterest It used to be that when it came to the children, it was Mum’s domain. Mothers would handle everything related to the children, except perhaps the really big disciplinary issues...
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Life Lessons for Children: The Power of Believing
This is part of a series of lessons that we try to teach the children about living life with a positive outlook and having strength of character. For as much as we believe in honing our children’s...
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Maximise Your Child’s Learning Potential
When I was growing up, there were a lot of things we didn’t know about the brain and how it functioned. In fact, we knew so little about it that we often did a lot of things that negatively impacted...
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Raising Kids with Grit
Image Source: Pinterest – TED Talks Ever since Angela Lee Duckworth’s talk on TED about Grit being the key to success, I’ve been seeing more and more articles on the need to raise gritty kids. While...
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Emotional Intelligence: Children Need Empathy to be Successful
We have always believed that education should not only be about filling a child’s head with information but to develop the whole child – heart, mind and body. The more we pursue this aspiration, the...
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A Lesson in Perspective Taking
In her book Mind in the Making, Ellen Gallinsky highlights the importance of “perspective taking” one of the seven essential life skills that all children need to be taught. I read a story recently...
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Parenting: Concerning Addiction and Dealing with it
When we hear the word addiction, we immediately think of drug addiction, but this post is not just about drugs. It’s about everything that we can possibly get addicted to, including our digital...
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Early Childhood Development – What Neuroscience Says About Parenting, Care...
Babylicious by Figur8 began as an early child development blog with topics and articles following the growth and development of my children. Although my children are exiting early childhood, I still...
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Early Childhood Development – What Neuroscience Says About Parenting, Care...
This is the continuation from our previous post on Early Childhood Development – What Neuroscience Says About Parenting, Care and Learning. It follows the trends in neuroscience on parenting, care and...
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The Science of Touch: A Hug a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Image Source: Design Your Way When I was a new Mum, I was warned not to carry my baby too much or he would get spoiled. “Try not to pick him up immediately when he cries or he will expect to be picked...
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Early Childhood Development – What Neuroscience Says About Parenting, Care...
This is the last part of a series of posts on Early Childhood Development – What Neuroscience Says About Parenting, Care and Learning. It follows the trends in neuroscience on parenting, care and...
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Raising and Educating a Child is a Team Effort
Some time back, I saw a humorous comic about the relationship between the parent, teacher and child/student and I laughed because it was so true. Image Source: Funny Pictures And then I sobered up...
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The Growth Mindset in Education
I have been following the work of Carol Dweck since I first read about her on New Scientist way back in 2008. A lot has happened since then, and we have learned a lot more about the Growth Mindset so I...
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Engaged Parents Increase Children’s School Performance
As parents, we’re always looking for ways to help our children do better at school. One way that really works, according to John Hattie, is “Parent Engagement“. When we are committed to our children’s...
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Social Development in the 21st Century and the Evolution of the Play Date
When G1 was little, I toyed with the idea of homeschooling him. We didn’t in the end because DH was concerned about the social aspects of our children’s development. When I pointed out that...
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The Real Reason Why Kids Should Do Housework
Encouraging kids to help out with the housework has often been linked to increasing their responsibility, but here’s an even better reason for getting them involved in domestic chores. If improved...
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