Teaching-Learning

“I thought Life Skills was only for children to learn”

At the conclusion of the course one of the participants said something very significant, “I had the belief that learning Life Skills was...

Identifying skill deficits in counselling clients

Most counselling work is in two parts. The first part deals with listening to the clients with complete attention, being non-judgmental...

Have you learnt this important skill - Asking for help?

There are many skills we need to learn to survive and thrive in our lives. Asking for help is a skill that is underrated. In fact many...

Our strengths can also be our weakness

We can look at our strengths as our personality strengths (I am…), our external resources like our relationships, our possessions, our...

Adults getting frustrated with the wrong problems of children

One of the main reasons why some children do not score well in Maths is that they are poor in language skills. You might wonder what is...

Do children need to be ‘productive’ all the time?

“Whenever I watch Japanese Anime which I love, my mom says, I am wasting my time. She says, I should watch National Geographic and I...

Rote learning is not child abuse

Rote learning is getting a lot of bad press these days. Many schools and institutions advertise, ‘No rote learning’ without really...

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