Black history month, is a month dedicated to celebrate and recognise the achievements of Black people in Britain.
There are many ways we celebrate black history month in the UK.
One of the ways we celebrate black history month in the Uk is reading books to school children by black authors.
So yesterday, I read my book to some amazing year 3,4 5 at a local libary in London. It was a great time with the kids. They asked me so many questions and they made my reading and time spent with them so easy.
Thanks to all the teachers that came with this greater tomorrow and future leaders.
Children are the most honest and funny people on earth. I love every minute I spent with them yesterday.
By the way the title of book I read to them was- I like being a big sister. – A story inspired by my four year old granddaughter when she became a big sister. She found it hard at first but she later got to love her little sister. She once told me that her little sister is her best friend 😊
There are some amazing tips at the back of the book for any parent that needs help with this topic.
I like being a big sister is on Amazon, get your copy today
Click the link below to get the book on Amazon
Photo: that’s the photo of me waiting for the kids at the libary. I’m afraid we were not allowed to take the photo of the kids
Thanks and have an amazing week.
Please don’t forget to leave a comment or question below if you want 👇
A lot is happening in our children’s lives and we as parents must do something about it quickly before it becomes worse.
The other day I overheard a conversation between two girls on the bus and I thought to myself, who raised them?
Childrens don’t just develop good characters on their own, they need an adult to show them how, just like any skills.
If you want your kids to have good character, like – respect, gentleness, diligence, courage, resilience, etc. — then today’s post is for you.
Here is how👇
Model the choices and actions that are essential to being a person of good character.
If you are honest, trustworthy, fair, compassionate, respectful, and involved in the greater good of your family and friends, your children will see this in your everyday actions and choices.
Discuss Good Character vs. Bad Character
Put the importance of positive character traits into perspective for your children.
Tips for Modeling Good Character at home
Be a role model. Children imitate the adults in their lives. Take time to reflect on your words and actions to ensure you portray the character traits you want your child to develop.
Give them breathing room. Children—and adults— develop character when they experience things first-hand. When appropriate, take a step back and allow your child to solve their disagreements with friends, make and fix their own mistakes, and deal with other real-life situations.
Offer Praise. Notice when your children exhibit positive character behavior, such as sharing toys, keeping their space clean, or holding the door open for someone who needs help. Praise them for showing generosity, responsibility, and caring.
I would like to know your thoughts on today’s post.
I’m not sure about you, but growing up I don’t really like maths until I became a teacher and I started learning the easiest way to teach kids maths.
I love teaching kids maths now and it’s a joy to see when they finally get the concept.
Today I’m going to show you one easy way to teach your toddlers adition.
We all know that the easier way to learn anything is by using a real life experience to teach the concept.
HOW YO DO IT:
Give your toddler 2 apples 🍎 🍎 and later give her another one apple 🍎 then ask her how many apples do you have now? (🍎🍎+🍎 = 🍎🍎🍎) simple right?
In addition, use daily activities like playing cards to teach them. Play monopoly games with them. Let them count how many apples you got from the shop.
PRETEND PLAY
Children always like to help, so pretend that you’re struggling to count home many apples left after giving some to a friend. Your child would definitely come to your rescue 😂
STAY AHEAD
Start maths early, teach your child maths topics ahead of time before they go into the next class. If we do this, school work will feel easy for them and they will enjoy going to school.
If you’re looking for maths worksheets, you will find many maths worksheets online suitable for your child’s maths practice. Education.com have free maths worksheets
And you can also get some of my maths workbooks for your kids on Amazon.
Do you understand how your child is learning to read?
Hello parents, if you have a child in reception class and year 1 (4-7 years old) or if you have a child that is still struggling to read a book, then today’s post is for you.
When your child is learning to read, there are two most important things they learn.
They’re taught that sounds are represented by written letters.
And how to blend sounds to make words.
Children in reception (kindergarten) are taught to read letters or groups of letters by saying the sounds they represent. So they are taught that the letter ‘a’ sounded out as /a/ (as in ant), not /ay/ (as in day) when we say it.
Children who read a lot are more likely to be successful in school than children who don’t
So, how can I help my child with reading?
Get your kids books that are at the right level, and if school books seem too difficult for sounding out and blending, talk to the teacher.
Help your child practise phonics at home.
Ask your child’s teacher on how to help them at home. Schools should provide information sessions on how they teach phonics. It’s important that you say the sound correctly when helping your children.
Keep practicing with your child until they get it.
Read to your child as much as you can. Keep reading lots of books and information books with your children. Reread their favourite stories over and over again. Children’s vocabulary, imaginations and knowledge of the world grows through you reading and talking with them.
Most importantly your child will learn faster with encouragement, praise and hugs.
If you need books that can help you get started then
Every Tuesdays I share some quick tips on Positive Parenting techniques on this Platform and my other social media pages.
Please note- I’m not a perfect parent, my adult children can testify to that 😁
I share my experiences and what I have learnt about parenting because I care and just in case someone needs it.
Besides, I do get lots of positive feedbacks from parents, so I know I must be helping them in their parenting journey. 😁
So today I’m going to share a little bit about parenting a teenager.
So here we go 👇
First of all, let me start by telling you that as a parent of an 18 year old, it can be hard knowing what he wants and needs at any particular giving time.
Like many teenagers, my son’s mood was all over the place during sixth form.
Sometimes he is great and cheerful and sometimes moody and quiet.
There are times he will snap at me and I will feel like I want to slap him but I’m an adult so I keep cool because I understand he doesn’t mean it, I blame it on his hormones 😁
Because in the very next minutes or so he would come to my room and just lay down next to me and we will talk about stuff and laugh and laugh about some silly jokes.
As a mom I felt the pressure of making the most of the time I had left with my son under my roof. ❤️
Here is what your teens need from you during those challenging years.
BELIEVE IN THEM ALWAYS:
If we can’t believe in our kids, who will? We must instill this belief until they believe in themselves. Being a safe space for teens means never giving up on them, NO MATTER WHAT!
We start by modeling it in our life, by believing in OURSELVES as parents. We can’t give away what we don’t have. When they see us pursue our passions confidently and continue to press forward when life knocks us down, we create a safe space by default.
Our children need our loving voice in their ears, letting them know they have what it takes within. We teach them to trust their internal GPS and go through life with their heart wide open.
DON’T TAKE THINGS PERSONALLY
It’s tricky not to take your teen’s behavior personally, but the reality is, our teen’s behavior isn’t about us. The less we personalize it, the better.
DON’T EXPECT PERFECTION
Every little thing we comment on, nitpick, or get frustrated over often comes across like we expect flawless behavior. The fastest way to curb this issue on both sides is to let go of our expectations and lists of shoulds. About everything.
If you want your teen to trust you, you have to let the small stuff go and pick and choose your battles.
My final thoughts, if you’re a parent of teenager like me, I would like you to know that all they really need is love, and knowing that they have someone that got their back at home is a very big deal for them, because they’re are in a lot of pressure from friends, schools, peers and the society. Be kind to them.
Of course you need to be firm and set boundaries, however you can also be kind in your approach. Don’t take things personally.
Are you looking for more resources regarding how to talk with your teen? Then check out our parenting book.
The things that parents say to their kids can either encourage and give them confidence, or lower their self-esteem and hold them back in life.
So how do we avoid doing the latter?
I’m sure most of you know that my youngest is 20 years old. Our relationship has evolved, we are like buddies now. He often comes to me for advice and most of the time he doesn’t really need my advice, he just needs someone to talk to. 😆
So, everytime he comes to me for advice, I will always think deeply about what to say and make sure I did not say something negative about his ideas.
I’m sure if you’re raising yourng adults or teenagers you can relate 😆
So just in case you’re raising a teenage, here is some advice I give to my son daily.
Do your best and be kind and treat everyone how you want to be treated. .
If something doesn’t work out, don’t be sad. It may turn out to be a good thing later on.
I love you. – I tell my son this often, I say things like – I love you. I trust you. I believe in you. I will support whatever you want to do. I will always be here for you.
I can’t do everything for you. – you’re an adult now you have to try and figure things out yourself.
My final thoughts
Always ask about their day and just listen if they want to talk. Only give them advice when they ask for it. Remember they are not a child anymore, they’re adults now, so treat them like one.
Sometimes even if I didn’t think something was a good idea, I always supported him, because I know adulting is all about resilience. We keep going. We fail, we try and try again, we fail, we try and try and try.
I hope this helps 🥰❤️
What are some advice you’ve given your teenagers lately? 👇👇👇
This is an appeal to all parents. I am not happy with the way some schools are treating our kids. Some of them are quick to judge our kids.
My son just finished his SIXTH FORM and he also witnessed this ill treatment.
I know when children are in primary and secondary schools, the school tries their best to support lower ability children, however it’s a different story from my experience and others that when a teenager has a bad grade in Sixth Form, they’re on their own,
Not sure if this was true, but a parent told me a teacher told her that, they know that her son’s grade can never improve and they know he can’t achieve the expected grade so they will advise him to repeat the same class!!
(THIS TYPE OF WORDS SHOULDN’T BE SAID BY ANYONE TO A CHILD LET ALONE AN EDUCATOR)
Wow !!!!!!! (They have broken this boy’s self-esteem)
He is only 17
So anyway, what can you do as a parent to help your children achieve good grades in school and achieve academic success?
You can do one of these two things 👇
Support and teach them at home yourself, – Make time for them everyday after school to help them with their homework. even if it’s only an hour daily. Talk to their teachers often and ask about their targets and what they’re struggling with. Ask for text books you can buy to support them with. Try your best to stick with the routines. I can’t stress this enough. You get what you put in and your kids will thank you for it.
The second thing you can do is get them a good tutor. A tutor that has the subject knowledge and they teach in a different and fun way which makes the kids to assimilate all they’ve learnt quickly.
I am a tutor and we recently just moved to a bigger centre. I help and teach primary school children. I also prepare children for 11 plus exams. My results speak for themselves. Ask my parents. And we also have a secondary school teacher that teaches Maths, English and Science KS3 – KS4 students.
Trust me when I say this, this teacher knows what she is doing. I have seen her previous students’ GCSEs results and at her present school she is helping and supporting lower abilities students in her clases achieve good grades.
Send me a DM today and sign up your children.
It’s affordable and you need to do this for your children guys.
Enough is said for the wise.
You don’t have to use me, but please get help for your children don’t wait till they asked them to repeat a class in SIXTHFORM before you do something
For students to pass any test or exams they must be prepared, study and give in their best. It’s as simple as that.
So dear parent, if you know you want your child to sit for the 11 plus exams one day, you need to start preparing them for it when they’re in year 3, so they will get used to it and not be overwhelmed.
I know a lot of parents that prepare their kids at home themselves, and you can do that too if you have the time.
However, if you don’t have time, there’s nothing wrong in enrolling your children in a tuition centre or get them a one-one private tutor.
Also, I will advise you to get a tutor that knows what she is doing, has the subject knowledge and has had great success in the past.
At Brighterbee learning Centre, we identify a child’s weaknesses and take proactive steps to strengthen them. We go over their learning problems, and choose the right books, guiding revision, or more generally re-teaching topics that have already been covered in class.
For students to pass any test or exams they must be prepared, study and give in your best. That’s why we are here to support you at Brighterbee
We offer the best tuition, to take your child from average to excellence. Parent don’t wait till the last minute to sign up your child, especially for those that have exams. Get in touch now. Send a DM or call us today.
WHAT WE DO👇
We can help with:
Reading and homework help
KS1/KS2
KS3/KS4
SATs Exams
11 plus Exams
GCSE
WHAT WE OFFER
: We provide tuition from 4 years to 16 years
: One to one tuition
: Group tuition
: Variety of subjects for all ages
: Affordable
For more information call: 07984047117 or Send us a DM today
Teens often don’t understand what’s going on with their body, minds and emotions.
What we all really want in life as a human being, is for someone to hear us and see us.
And we don’t want people to judge us, we want to be celebrated and to be accepted as we are.
And dear parents, that is exactly what our kids need too, especially teenagers.We can support them and encourage them.
If you’re raising a teenager your job is to guide and be there for them. They will make mistakes, it’s ok that’s how they will learn. I’m sure as an adult yourself you have made plenty of mistakes and you’re still ok.
What I’m trying to say is that our teenagers are going through a lot already and we as their parents need to be the support system they need.
They need your hugs, your listening ears, and trust me they need you more than you know.
This message is for me too, I have to keep reminding myself that my son is an adult now and it’s hard. Sometimes I just want to wrap my hand around him and not let him go, but I can’t do that now o, because he is his own person and he is now a man.
And all I can do now is to guide, listen and give advice or suggestions, however he already knows what he wants to do.
Our kids NEED one place they can count on for safety and peace. And this is how we do that.
May God help us all 🙏🏾
Can you relate? 👇
6 Ways To Deal With School Work (for secondary school students especially year 7 students)
Summer holiday is over now, and most school starts soon.
I wanted to share a few of my tips with you guys on how to deal with homework and school work in general, and getting back into a routine:
Go to sleep early – I know it may be hard to get back to the routine of going to bed early because during summer you sleep as late as you want to, and not having to worry about early starts the next day.
You may find it really hard to adjust from that routine when you started school, as you were so used to it. But, I think it’s a really good place to start getting into the routine for school, and to ensure that you won’t be tired at school.
Focus in class – Really this sounds so simple, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned in all my years in school, is that by focusing and working hard in class, you’re really just helping yourself. By listening and doing what you’re meant to in class, you usually end up with less homework, or you find the homework easier to complete. And, when it comes to a summative assessment you are way more prepared because you have understood everything along the way, and don’t need to do a last-minute cram session.
Utilize your time – This tip is really big for me, as I do like to make sure my schedule is completely full, and I take on as much as I can. So for others, this would result in them not having time to do everything. But, I have come up with a system for utilizing every single second of my time during the day. Whatever you do to utilize your time, it’s a really good idea to finish tasks throughout the day, whenever you find that you have time.
Make lists – This is so helpful for me. Wow. I always find that I have a never-ending list of things I need to do, and I like to keep a list on my desk, as well as on my phone, of the things I need to do next. There must be some scientific reason as to why lists are so effective, but for me, it just un-jumbles everything in my brain and gives me a step to step guide of what I’m doing next. I would really recommend this for any student.
Go Running – This has really helped me get into my school routine again. Of course, it’s partly because I love running, but also because running gives me discipline.
6. Attend classes, make sure you’re not late and ask for help when you need it!
So that’s some of the ways you can have the best year in secondary school
Best of luck guys, you’ve got this and I am rooting for you.
Positive Parenting With Olu 