World Book Day: A Celebration of Reading

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free”.

-         Frederick Douglas.

The World Book Day (WBD) is a worldwide celebration of reading, a celebration of books, authors, illustrators and everyone that makes writing a book possible. It is marked annually in over 100 countries around the world on the first Thursday of March while some other countries mark the WBD on April 23^rd, the birthday of Williams Shakespeare.

How Safe Are Kids Online?

I always want to believe my son doesn’t need or know how to surf the internet yet; Teni is 4 years old and likes to play games on my phone or tab. It’s incredible to see how he and other kids his age navigate their way through the features on our gadgets without being taught.

New Educational and Entertaining TV Shows For Toddlers and School Age Kids

You can’t beat your child’s imagination and what they can learn from watching the right TV shows.

With the long summer holiday in full swing, kids get bored easily and begin to explore all sorts of things. As parents, we want to be sure our kids are spending their time at home well. Parents enroll their kids in summer school but what do they do when they return home?

Why Kids’ Academics Achievements May Be Due To Their Parent’s DNA

Children whose parents are very involved in their academics activities have higher chances of excelling at school. Right from an early age, they have greater mastery of early basic school skills than their peers whose parents have low involvement in their school’s activities. Having said this, your kids’ success in academics may now be predicted by age 16 as a recent study published in a journal – Molecular Psychiatry shows that parents’ DNA is responsible for their kids’ academic performance in school and this according to Science daily is the strongest prediction from DNA of a behavioral measure to date.