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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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