Finally parents can say screw being tidy
You may have seen the headline: tidying up guru Marie Kondo has announced that she has “kind of given up
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Category: Education
Daycares are big business
Last week I sent a link to a survey, asking you to help shape this newsletter. It takes just between
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Why you shouldn’t spank a child
A disturbing investigation by Brazil’s Agência Pública and online platform openDemocracy has uncovered that Brazil’s religious homeschooling groups, supported by
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Creating safe spaces for children during war
Show kids they are in a safe space, physically and emotionally. They need to chose games freely and have enough
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Why every child should have access to *quality* daycare
A few weeks ago, a question caught me by surprise: what age is best to send your child to daycare?
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Why we should give every child the right to quality daycare
In Italy, there is a new plan to invest heavily into building new daycare centres as part of the NextGenerationEU
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In Greece, migrant children have the right to go to school
This is Marianna Liakou, a Greek kindergarten teacher I learned about thanks to the work of journalist Nikolia Apostolou, who
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You don’t need to praise my child’s multilingualism
When people congratulate me and my partner Nacho on our son’s linguistic achievements, we usually shake off the compliment and
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How I write – with you. And let’s collaborate on early education stories
Tomorrow, Thursday 5 August, I’ll be speaking at the Membership Puzzle Project summit. So what is this, and why is it
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Teacher Tom: Putting children at the heart of society
“Daddy, let’s go somewhere!“ It was 2-year-old Josephine that unconsciously pushed her father Tom Hobson to shift gears. After studying
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