How To Praise Your Child Effectively

I have come to think that this is perhaps the most critical part of all parenting.  Get this right and much of the rest will fall into place. Get it wrong and you can permanently damage your child’s life prospects. And I don’t write that lightly. Praise is clearly an...

Tyler is making great progress and still enjoying the lessons. He is still using the lessons pretty much everyday with the occasional skips. We have found that his spelling has improved somewhat and his reading has improved greatly. As such he is now at his level for...

Breakthrough with Easyread…

I thought I’d let you know about a sudden breakthrough we have had with Erin’s reading. As I said in the beginning, Erin can read reasonably fluently but misses out words, changed endings etc. The other thing was that she found reading incredibly laborious...

I only wish I had found you years ago…

I am very impressed by the program to date. I have seen a significant improvement in Thomas’s reading already, as has his teacher. This program is the last thing I was prepared to try, as we have spent A LOT of money on various expert assessments which left all...

Factoid Fridays

Happy Friday! In England, a long bank holiday weekend is upon us. Let’s wish the rain away and be happy that it’s May… Did you know:  There are two words in the English language that use all of the vowels, in the correct order, and end in the letter...