Factoid Fridays – R S T L N E
It’s Factoid Fridays time again! Did you know that the most common letters in English are: R S T L N E. Our US readers may be familiar with the show Wheel of Fortune. In the final bonus round, the letters R S T L N and E are given as ‘freebies’ to fill in the blanks...
read moreBeing Different Is OK
We quite often get asked by parents about whether they should get their child analysed by an educational psychologist, because the school has said that they are different to the norm in some way. It is often a question of how they interact with other children. All I...
read moreFamous Fridays – Benjamin Zephaniah
“The way I write, the way I see the world, is part and parcel of my dyslexia…” These are the words of Benjamin Zephaniah, who alongside being a hugely successful novelist and playwright, is one of Britain’s most celebrated poets. Try as you might you will struggle to...
read moreBuilding Your Child’s Self Control
I want to share a great little article on this: http://www.teachpreschool.org/2012/05/helping-young-children-develop-self-control/ The key to what she is saying is that self-control is an activity, not a passive state. It takes effort to control yourself and it is...
read moreFactoid Fridays – What We Owe to Shakespeare
Have you seen this fun description of all the phrases that we owe to Shakespeare’s plays? http://www.englishmuse.com/2011/09/phrases-we-owe-to-shakespeare.html “Knock knock! Who’s there?” “Set your teeth on edge” “Heart of gold” “Good riddance” “Fight fire with fire”...
read moreA moment of calm vs. a lifetime of stress
Everyone is aware that stress is bad for us in lots of ways, but did you know that it can cause your brain to physically shrink? Studies have shown that the volume of the Hippocampus can reduce following high levels of stress due to the fact that neurones are being...
read morePumping Iron…in the brain
In recent years the popularity of digital brain training devices has rocketed. Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are affecting more and more people each year. Accordingly there is increasing demand for better awareness and scientific understanding of the causes and...
read moreFamous Fridays – Nelson Rockefeller
Did you know that Nelson Rockefeller was dyslexic? Rockefeller (1908-1979) was Vice President of the United States under Gerald Ford and also Governor of New York. He once delivered a special television address called “The Puzzle Children”, which was hosted on PBS by...
read moreMaking Your Child Feel Bad
Here is a nice little reminder of the things it is so easy to do, without meaning to really do harm: http://ht.ly/8yvaB The brutal reality is that children do feel constantly judged and compared, even if you do everything perfectly. Middle children in particular tend...
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It's Factoid Fridays time! Did you know that widow is the only female form in the English language that is shorter than its corresponding male term (widower)? Go...
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