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Changing Children’s Minds and Brains, Part 2
In the second of a three-part series, Diane Bourke talks about task solving in the Feuerstein approach to helping children learn.
Best of the Web: Reconnecting on a Rollercoaster, Social Media Not All Bad, and Phonic Wars
Our selection of thought-provoking and useful articles from around the web on educating and raising children.
Changing Children’s Minds and Brains
In the first of a three-part series, Diane Bourke explains how you can help your child learn using the Feuerstein approach.
Letter to My Teenage Self
Grace Halphen, 16, is the star attraction at a sold-out Melbourne Writers' Festival event later this month. Here we repost Shane Green's interview from last year with the talented Wesley College student.
Best of the Web: Supporting Mums of Teenagers, Taking Away Toys and Tackling Misbehaving Parents
Our selection of thought-provoking and useful articles from around the web on educating and raising children.
Best of the Web: Breaking Through With Autism, Outsourcing Parenting, and Tracking Students by Phone
Our selection of thought-provoking and useful articles from around the web on educating and raising children.
Advice for parents to discuss and identify eating disorders
Controversial Netflix drama To the Bone has brought eating disorders into the spotlight, but a Deakin University clinical psychologist recommends parents should take the lead on these issues.
Four tips to help children learn to read
How we learn to read involves a combination of strategies, writes Professor Misty Adoniou.
Screenagers
The struggle by parents to control their children's screen time is tackled in Screenagers, a documentary that's getting worldwide attention, now showing in Australia, writes Shane Green.