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How to help your child with their critical thinking skills

November 2, 2021 By Ellen

Critical thinking skills allow for wiser decision making and have helped our very survival. They incorporate analysis, interpretation and evaluation to help us make better sense of the world and make pragmatic decisions. We have paired up with an independent sixth form college in London to share advice on how to help your child with […]

Anger: When the rules get broken?

April 10, 2015 By Ellen

What boils your water? Is there something that sets your teeth on edge? Do you know what’s going to make you see red? Will you be vexed or incandescent? I’d love to be able to take a deep, calming breath and let it go – fury, rage or temper. All gone. It only gives me […]

291/365 Pig-face-time

October 18, 2013 By Ellen

This was Boy Two face-timing his little brother and the best thing they could do with what is actually quite awesome technology was make pig faces (and noises) at each other. Boys One and Two are spending some of half term with their dad, and Boy Three really misses them. But having the chance to grunt […]

X rated: Perils of the sign-off kiss

August 1, 2013 By Ellen

See you soon xxx Thanks very much x With kind regards xx xxxxxxxxx How do you finish your messages? Facebook, Twitter, G + and emails – every day I get dozens, and loads of them are signed with an X. Even lots of people I don’t know and haven’t any great desire to meet. Only this […]