Whether you go day tripping or globe- trotting, travelling with your children and teenagers is an experience rich in learning and social awareness that they will remember far more readily than some classroom learning. Why is that? Travel offers an opportunity free of...

It used to be that parents registered their child at the local neighbourhood school, in early September, sometimes on the first actual day of school. The only choice available back then was whether to send a child to public or catholic school, but to some it was not...

It used be a saying that school secretaries would tell parents when their child was sick and parents sent their child to school anyway because last minute care-giver arrangements were too complicated, or not pre-arranged, or the other parent was not able to stay home...

At the start of a new calendar year, people often choose goals and objectives that they hope to achieve to enhance their life, their health, their relationships or their learning. For many teens in their last year of high school, the start of the last six months of...

September is often a month that evokes back to school for students, with images of backpacks, lunches and yellow school buses. With a growing number of adults returning to school in recent years, the extra lunch is headed with a parent to a classroom instead of a...

Backpacks, lunchbags, pencil cases and notebooks are part of the traditional purchase pattern of the back-to-school ritual at the end of each summer.  Older students include new technology like smartphones, tablets and laptops to assist in academic tasks. From...

Ask any young person, parent or teacher if they have had a discussion on this topic and the chances of them saying yes is very high. That is because in every generation there is a hot button topic that fires one set of minds against another: two generations ago it was...

There are many mixed messages in the education domain about testing. Good testing, bad testing, useless testing and useful testing. What does it all mean when it comes to your child? If you’ve already had a child or children move through the education system in...

Why are teen girls more likely to volunteer? Visit any fundraising event, sporting event, social or cultural event and the number of girls volunteering far outpaces the guys. Is this because girls are more social than boys? Have different motivational reasons? Are...