
Best Of The Web
Our selection of thought-provoking and useful articles from around the web on educating and raising children.

Best of the Web: Celebrating the gap year, and more
Why gap years are good, school report talks, and being a kindness role model for your child.

Best of the Web: Teens Who Don’t Read Books, and more…
Concern over teenagers reading less, imagine a family life without devices, amd how to teach kids what news to trust.

Best of the Web: Supporting Teens Finishing High School, and more…
Support for teenagers finishing high school, don't use food to reward, encouraging forgiveness, and making friends.

Best of the Web: Happy Kids do Chores, and more…
Why happy kids do chores, worried my daughter is just like me, boys need friendships, and giving VET an image-makeover.

Best of the Web: How Smartphones can Help Learning, the Mysteries of Kids’ Behaviour, the Myth of Teen Anxiety, and Calls to Ban Smacking
Learning using a smartphone, kids' behaviour explained, and the Big Myth about teen anxiety.

Best of the Web: the Perils of a Teenage Daughter, Put Down your Phone, the Value of Chatting to Kids, and Compassion Lessons from a Crazed Seagull
The rollercoaster ride of parenting a teenage daughter, why screen use affects parenting, and the importance of how you talk to your child.

Best of the Web: Developing Empathy, How to Raise a Human without Parenting Books, and Helping Kids Deal with Rejection
Raising kids who care, parenting by instinct not books, ideas to help your child when they have been rejected.

Best of the Web: Students Who Hate their Phones, Being a Resilient Parent, and Talking to Kids about Cambridge Analytica
Challenging the idea that kids love their phones, resilient parenting, and discussing Cambridge Analytica.

Best of the Web: Why Homework Matters, Helping Boys Enjoy Reading, and the Kids Beating Stress with a Journal
Why homework is worth the hassle, encouraging boys to read, and how journals can help stressed kids.