You are probably already familiar with the concept of active learning – learning through play and hands-on activities. This can take the form of exploring different materials, learning through guided group activities and crafts, and interacting a lot with classmates. But with the pressures on academics that the Hong Kong school system creates from a very young age, activity-based learning can sometimes get left behind. Read More
Encouraging a Child’s Self-Discovery Children are born with an innate drive to discover the world around them, from the time when they are toddlers, dropping their pacifiers off of their high chairs and exploring the spatial limits of rooms by crawling, they have a natural urge to question and understand how the world and their surroundings work. Children are… Read More
Encouraging Creativity in Your Children Creativity is not so much an inborn quality as it is a learned skill – it is not true that some children are more or less creative than others or more or less capable in creative fields than others, it is very much something that can and should be taught and encouraged. This is because creativity is actually essential in… Read More
5 reasons to celebrate both our failures and our successes There are a lot of reasons we celebrate – holidays, a new job, a friend’s wedding, birthdays, graduations – and plenty of ways we celebrate these – parties, gifts, bringing together family and friends. But celebration doesn’t have to be all pomp and circumstance, it can be as simple as acknowledging a… Read More
“The better you know a particular historical period, the harder it becomes to explain why things happened one way and not another… In fact, the people who knew the period best – those alive at the time – were the most clueless of all.” Non-fiction has never been a greatly attractive genre to me – I love fiction for its escapism and precisely because it… Read More
