by GenesisAdmin | Sep 5, 2016 | Behavioural Difficulties, Emotional Development, Parent guidance, Social Development |
Last week I chatted to Expresso’s Elana Afrika-Bredenkamp about bullying. In the first segment we looked at what bullying is, what the psychological effects are and what signs to look out for. Bullying can be described as aggressive behaviour by...
by GenesisAdmin | Feb 9, 2015 | Early Childhood Development, Emotional Development, Parent guidance, Social Development |
Get a little creeped out when you hear your child having a conversation with thin air? Experts once believed that having an imaginary friend was a sign that something was wrong in a child’s life. They hypothesized that children who dreamed up imaginary friends...
by GenesisAdmin | Dec 29, 2014 | Emotional Development, Parent guidance, Social Development |
As the year draws to a close it is important to help our children reflect not only on all they have accomplished and achieved, but also on the mistakes they have made this year and to help them learn from these. Too often society pressures us (and our kids) into...
by GenesisAdmin | Jul 20, 2014 | Barriers to Learning, Emotional Development, Social Development |
Children who suffer from selective mutism are able to speak and have a good understanding of language, but do not speak in specific situations or to specific people. Experts have found that children with selective mutism suffer from severe anxiety and it is this...
by GenesisAdmin | Feb 10, 2014 | Parent guidance, Social Development |
In this post I want to focus on delayed gratification and how it may benefit children. Basically, delaying gratification means resisting the temptation to get an immediate reward in order to receive a larger or more enduring reward later. In the now famous Stanford...
by GenesisAdmin | Feb 7, 2014 | Emotional Development, Parent guidance, Social Development |
Praise has gotten a lot of media attention lately and many parenting magazines and blogs now seem to offer conflicting advice about whether or not to praise your children. Personally, I think we’re simply over-thinking the issue. To me, praise is a natural...