Early Years Inspiration

Maggie Dent does it again! You took the words right out of my mouth.
Children, particularly in the first few years of school, do not need to be doing homework.
Reading as a family and giving opportunities for a beginner reader to have a go within real life experiences at home gives far greater value to this skill and assists in these skills emerging. Formal homework does not improve outcomes for children. If anything, it can breed a resentment for learning as it is arduous. They NEED to play!
If you want to add a little to your child learning I can not stress enough to simply involve your children in cooking at home, read the recipe together, write down a recipe shared with you, measure the ingredients, watch the reactions when things are mixed, heated or cooled. It is the perfect everyday experience that involves literacy, maths and science, not to mention the fine motor development and skill in cutting up the veggies etc., self help and life long skills being learnt.

Why are we STILL stealing childhood? | Maggie Dent As one of Australia’s leading parenting educators I regularly travel the length and breadth of this country including cities, remote communities, rural communities and of course the digital world. Everywhere I go I hear about the distress of many young children who are struggling — kids struggli...