Preparing for the first day of school
Learn more about how to get your child ready for their first day of school.
Personal hygiene for children
Help your child create good personal hygiene habits and boost their self esteem and health
10 – 12 years physical and sexual development
Around this age your child's body, regardless of sex, will begin to change shape and mature
Facts and figures about bullying
Facts and figures about bullying, including the statistics, research and policies.
Literacy milestones 7-8
Your children need all the encouragement you can give to help them develop into strong readers who love to read! Here's how you can help them.
Fibre facts
Most Mums know that fibre is an important part of a diet maintaining health and general well-being. The challenge can be eating enough each day...
Speech and language development 11-12 years
Speech and language development varies in children but these development milestones explain what children 11-12 should know.
Spell Cover Write Check
Look-say-cover-write-check is a great way to turn learning spelling words in to a game.
How to help when your child is bullied
If you find out your child is being bullied, what steps can you take to help them?
What makes a bully
Children who bully want to have control over some aspect of their lives - even if it's just making someone's life miserable.
Teaching your child resilience
Resilience is being able to ‘bounce back’ from difficult times, setbacks, and other significant challenges. Read our tips on how to help your children develop resilience
Basketball
Usually played indoors and year round, there is likely a club near you.
Spelling bee words 9-10
Spelling bee words for kids aged 9 to 10 are a great way to play learning games that improve literacy, reading and spelling skills.
What parents can do about bullying
When your child is being bullied it can be very emotional. Find strategies to solve the problem calmly and rationally.
Tongue twisters for speech development
Tongue twisters are a fun way to help your child improve their speech, language development and feed their imagination too. Get those tongues twisting.
Cyber bullying
About 10% of students say they have been bullied online typically conducted through online social networking sites. Parents need to play a role in preventing and combating this form of bullying. Here are some tips on how parents can help with this growing problem of cyber bullying.
School camp and sleepovers: are you ALL ready?
Sleepovers and school camps - it's a rite of passage! How to help your child cope with sleeping in a strange place for the first time.
Waterpolo
Children can enjoy waterpolo, or the junior version Flippaball from an early age. It introduces the principles of water competence, develops strong swimmers and water awareness.
Tennis
Tennis in New Zealand is organised through six regional associations that cover several local centres with which clubs affiliate
Handwriting milestones 7-8 years
Discover the handwriting milestones your 7 to 8 year old reaches as they develop their cursive and print handwriting skills.
Literacy milestones 11-12
Pre-teens still need all your encouragement to be readers often at this age reading is replaced by alternate activities and interests.
Is your child gifted and talented?
Defining and identifying gifted and talented children can be difficult but if you think that could be your child, what should you do next?
How bullies pick their victims
If your child is being bullied, he will feel scared, lonely and hopeless. If you suspect that your child is being bullied, you may find it difficult to get him to admit it to you.
Definitions of bullying
Definitions to explain bullying that happens in the playground fincluding physical, verbal, social, pyshcological and cyber bullying.
More Dolch sight words
Dolch sight words are a list of 220 commonly used words that children encounter and can be used to teach reading. This article contains extra Dolch nouns.
Spelling bee words 7-8
Spelling bee words for kids aged 7 to 8 are a great way to play learning games that improve literacy, reading and spelling skills
Multiplication Facts & Learning Games
Multiplication facts, worksheets and games can help children learn mathematical concepts.
Home alone – What does the law say?
What does the law say about leaving kids home alone or without supervision in New Zealand?
The pitfalls of the internet
The internet can be a wonderful thing but the very openess of it means that much of the material is unregulated. We guide you through the pitfalls.
Kids Sport: Rowing
Rowing is an excellent form of fitness for children to undertake - it gives a complete body workout. It provides aerobic conditioning as well as strength training.