by GenesisAdmin | May 10, 2018 | Early Childhood Development, Emotional Development, Parent guidance, Social Development |
How should you deal with separation anxiety? Although it can make life rather difficult for parents, separation anxiety is a normal stage of your child’s development. It is an indication that your child has formed a secure attachment to you and feels happy and...
by GenesisAdmin | Apr 26, 2018 | Barriers to Learning, Emotional Development |
Everybody loves the positive emotions, right?! Bring on happiness, joy, pride and love by the truck full. But negative emotions make us feel uncomfortable and often, we do our utter best to avoid them. Yet, negative emotions are important. We probably all agree that...
by GenesisAdmin | Oct 15, 2017 | Barriers to Learning, Parent guidance, Social Development |
Children with selective mutism are physically capable of speaking, but do not speak in specific situations or to specific people. For more information on Selective Mutism and how it presents in children, read this...
by GenesisAdmin | Sep 5, 2016 | Barriers to Learning, Behavioural Difficulties, Emotional Development, Parent guidance, Social Development |
Bullying is a serious problem and as a society we often react with great empathy to the child who is being bullied. But what if your child is the bully? Children bully others for a variety of reasons. Surprisingly when we talk to bullies we often find that they...
by GenesisAdmin | Sep 5, 2016 | Behavioural Difficulties, Emotional Development, Parent guidance, Social Development |
In this video I chat to Expresso’s Elana Afrika-Bredenkamp on how parents should address bullying. It is absolutely vital that parents get involved if they know or suspect that their child is being bullied, but how they go about doing so is important: keep in...
