I rewarded my child for the effort she put into studying — not the grade she got. She hasn’t even received her results yet. We still have two weeks to wait. But I knew waiting to see her marks before acknowledging her hard work didn’t feel right. So instead, I chose to celebrate the effort. […]
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Sometimes teaching my child feels like taking a donkey to the water. I’m the mum who makes all her study notes to help her—hoping it will make things easier. I sit next to her through the study session, breaking the work into tiny chunks, timing the breaks, laying out snacks and sensory toys, getting everything
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This was a hard one for me to write about. Some kids are good at studying and understanding concepts, and others — like my daughter, who is 12 years old — struggle with everything. And coming to terms with the fact that she just can’t grasp concepts easily and is a slow learner has been
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Somewhere along the way, we started measuring our children’s worth by the grades they bring home. If they do well, we call them “good kids.” If they don’t, we panic, label, lecture, or silently compare them to the ones who did better. We say things like, “You just need to try harder.” “What happened here?” “I
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Parenting. No one truly tells you how messy, unpredictable, and overwhelming it can be until you’re in the thick of it. I signed up to have a baby. I didn’t sign up for the complaining, the whining, and the endless nagging. And on top of that—the school issues. Every morning on the drive to school,
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(Spoiler: They Don’t Exist, and That’s a Good Thing) Remember how we said parenting is a circus? Let’s talk about one of the trickiest acts in the whole show: trying to look like we’ve got it all together. We’ve all been there—scrolling social media, staring at a photo of someone’s perfectly dressed toddler smiling next
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(and I am the Clown, the Lion Tamer, and the Escape Artist). Let’s just say it: parenting is wild. It’s beautiful and magical and deeply fulfilling, but also chaotic, exhausting and occasionally smells like mystery yogurt that’s been living under the couch since last Tuesday. If you have ever hidden in the bathroom just to
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