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Taming the Dragon

TAMING THE DRAGON By Jutta Dempsey Children often feel confused, anxious, hurt, disappointed, frustrated and angry in their efforts to deal with the world around them. Their age, temperament and emotional maturity will largely dictate how they handle these intense emotions but other influences include how anger has been role modelled in the home. Children’s anger becomes..

Playing Music: Benefits to Kids

Learning how to play a musical instrument has many benefits for children, but when is the best time to start? By Nicole Tobin-Donnelly Most parents would like their child to learn a musical instrument at some stage. There are no hard and fast rules for choosing an instrument although I firmly believe children should not be permitted to hop from one to another. You need at least a year on an..

Total Optical: Total Vision

There’s more to vision than 20/20, writes Jane Chin. It often comes as a surprise to parents to discover that although their child has 20/20 vision they are having problems at school due to their visual skills but there’s a lot more to the process of vision than how well you can see. Good vision allows us to plan how we physically interact with our environment and it’..