Anemia

Anemia

Iron Stores Predict Symptom Severity Research has shown that slower brain development can result from iron deficiency in infancy. This slow brain development leads to poor performance in school at a later stage in childhood. Studies on animals have also shown that...
Homework Without Tears

Homework Without Tears

Homework is one of those necessary evils.  It reinforces the work done in class as well as alerting the teacher to concepts that are not fully understood.  Homework teaches children independence and self-discipline, but it can be a source of conflict and many tears if...
Improve Reading

Improve Reading

How to improve your child’s reading skills. As a parent it can be hard to know just how well your child should be able to read, especially in the younger years. Professionals indicate that the average reading age of a newspaper is between 9 years 6 months and 10 years...
Self Esteem

Self Esteem

Let’s take a look at the importance of good self esteem… A child with a good self-esteem will generally feel accepted, connected, unique, powerful, and capable. Negative self-esteem can lead to insecurity, tension, anxiety, poor relationships, a lack of motivation and...
Television and Your Child

Television and Your Child

“The average high school child has watched over 22 000 hours of over-sexualised and exploitive relationships, abusive language and huge amounts of violence. There are 25 violent acts per hour on cartoon shows and the average child witnesses 50 acts of violence on TV...
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