Parenting
2012 GEMS Parental Engagement Week presentations now available
Presentations from the various guest speakers who addressed GEMS parents during the recent Parental Engagement Week are now available for download. Please feel free to share these documents, and forward any comments or questions.
Titles from the various sessions include:
Dr. Karen Mapp – “How to raise student achievement and build community”. Click here to download this presentation.
Dr. Raymond Hamden – “Giving your children the world: Helping them achieve their highest potential”. Click here to download this presentation.
Ms. Naeema Jiwani – “Developing your parenting style: Positive, Resourceful, Effective Parenting”. Click here to download this presentation.
Ms. Femida Hirji – “Effective communication with your teenager”. Click here to download this presentation.
Ms. Sabine Skaf – “Positive Parenting”
The power of parents in student success
Strong new evidence which shows that parental effort in encouraging and supporting education has a bigger effect than the efforts made by schools and children combined gives the GEMS parental engagement programme even greater impetus. The evidence is in research by the English universities of Leicester and Leeds led by Professor Gianni De Fraja, Professor of Economics and head of department at the University of Leicester.
The research is published in the prestigious Review of Economics and Statistics, which is edited at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. The research is based on the experiences of children in the National Child Development Study. The NCDS is following the lives of all those living in Great Britain who were born in one particular week in 1958.
A Good Night’s Sleep
How much sleep does your child, adolescent or teenager need to grow happily and healthily? Well, it varies with the child and the age group they are in. Even babies vary in the amount of sleep they need. Some newborns need 18 hours a day, some 10 and a half hours. I had one of the short sleepers. Tough going when your friends babies seem to sleep much of the clock round and, as a result, seem to be more organised than you do. The wonderful side of it was that my son and I got to know one another really well and really quickly!
Some adults need very little sleep. Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of Britain, is reputed to have needed only four or five hours sleep a night despite running a country. I watched a TV programme once about a man who needed only 45 minutes sleep in any 24 hours. I seem to remember he went to bed with the rest of the family but was up within the hour working on hobbies in the loft. That would feel like being given two lives.
Stress in Young People – the Facts
Like adults, children and young people react to life events differently for many reasons - for example because of the way they see people close to them behave –a father who gets furious in traffic jams, a mother who loses her temper when she has too much to do - and because their psychological make up varies. Some can take huge amounts of stress, but many cannot.
They also have different trigger points – for example some will get stressed if they forget their PE kit, others won’t care.
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