Over-parenting was often called “helicopter parenting”, as these parents hover over their children to make sure nothing goes wrong. Research shows that today’s parents spend more time per day parenting than in the 1980s. Parents are protective by nature but some consistently intervene to help children avoid any kind of failure. Lawnmower parents go to…
6 Simple Strategies For Saving Your Sanity
Working in schools is busy. There is always too much to do and not enough time to do it. One of the many challenges is that the work can be never ending. There is always MORE that can be done. MORE preparation, MORE marking and feedback, MORE researching options, MORE skills to develop, MORE technology…
BIG Black Holes: Where does the time go?
At times, working in schools can be overwhelming. You have students and parents to help, lessons to plan, student work to mark, meetings to attend, reports to write, budgets to submit, emails to respond to and, if there is any time left—students to teach. There is so much to do, and only a limited amount…
7 Strategies For Student Engagement
1 They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care We have all heard this saying before but it’s true. Our work in schools is ALL about relationships. Do your students know you care? How well do you know your students? Smiling makes a difference – smiling lets your students…
Difficult People Are Sent To Teach Us Something
A great way to turn situations or people that we might find frustrating or annoying into opportunities for improving ourselves is to develop the habit of seeing every person that we meet as somebody who has been sent to teach us something. Rather than thinking that cranky, hard-to-please parent has been sent to make our…
6 Strategies For Reducing Email Load
Working in schools, we need to protect our professional time vigilantly. Email can eagerly devour our preparation time, infringe on our time outside of school and can distance us from the important tasks. If we are disciplined though, email doesn’t have to be a burden – we can use it as a weapon of efficiency,…
Avoiding DHS (Deferred Happiness Syndrome)
Have you ever said…“I’ll be happy when…….. “…this week is over!” “…I’m on holidays!” “….the kids leave home!” “….the house is paid off!” OR “….I’m on long service leave!” These are examples of deferred happiness syndrome (DHS). Deferring or putting off our own happiness until some later time. We have all heard…
Is it time for a digital disconnect?
Are you too attached to technology and obsessed with the digital world? Between texts, emails, phone calls and notifications from the multiple social media apps, when are you really unplugged from this virtual world we have created? In the last 10 years the cyber demands for our busy social lifestyle has proven to be an…
7 Stages of Overcoming A Setback
In Emotional Intelligence at Work, US psychologist Hendrie Weisinger identifies seven stages most people experience after a set back. Similar to Elizabeth KublerRoss’s stages of grief, he says, ‘You need to experience and manage each stage, successfully moving through each one. Failure to do so keeps you stuck in a particular stage and further from…
Learning to Live With the Quirks of Others by Ken Warren
Do you know someone who is quirky – who has peculiar aspects of their appearance thinking or behaviour that are unique to them? To be honest, I think we all have our own personal quirks – things that make us who we are, that give us personality, and make us special. My wife, Christy, tells…
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