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Schools are designed for extroverts, so how can we help an introvert student to do more than just cope at school? How can we help introverts thrive?

What is relational aggression and how do we stop it? It’s one of the biggest challenges facing schools and parents. Why does it happen? How can you make a difference? 

Friendship ideas and understandings can be hard to explain to kids, but this analogy works. Here are 7 friendship lessons from a fishbowl. 

Promoting emotional growth in our kids is an ongoing and sometimes difficult process. Here are 10 tips that will make a difference.

What is it about some kids? They just seem to be able to roll with the punches, while others are demolished by the smallest challenge. Is it nature or nurture? Realistically it is probably both but there are definitely environmental elements that help build resilience from a young age.

These 7 factors help to create an environment that gives children a strong grounding from which to develop. 

Friendship isn’t something we usually teach kids. Most kids just learn the social norms and muddle through. However, we can teach kids that friendship is a skill set and we can create realistic expectations that might reduce future heartache.

Here are five vital friendship lessons for children.

Schools are designed for extroverts, so how can we help our introverted students to do more than just cope at school?

For an adolescent, friendships are incredibly important, often akin to love affairs. In them, they find an identity and a place in their newly-emerging, social network. Naturally, when something goes wrong it can feel devastating.

So what do you do and say when your child comes to you broken hearted and feeling as though their world is crumbling?

It’s natural, kids want to fit in, but sometimes that need to fit in leads them to ignore the most important question they should be asking themselves about their friends.

Friendship ideas and understandings can be hard to explain to kids, but this analogy works. Here are 7 friendship lessons from a fishbowl.

Contrary to popular kid mythology, teachers don’t stay at school over the holidays drinking coffee and waiting for them to return. So what do they do?

We want our kids to have grit. It is a proven indicator of success, even more influential than intelligence. So how do we develop it?