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Despite best teaching practice things do go wrong at school. Kids will often come home from school with grievances, and call on their parents for assistance.Your approach as a parent when your child has difficulty at school makes huge difference.

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Michael Grose

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Many kids seek solace from loneliness on Facebook, but can feel more lonely and depressed as they don’t measure up  according to their peers. Friend tallies, status updates and constant photo updates can make Facebook a very competitive environment, magnifying loneliness and making it harder to connect with others.

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Michael Grose

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As every parent knows, building confidence in kids is one of the most important tasks they have. One key parenting strategy for building confidence in kids is to find ways for kids to spend more time in places and spaces where they feel confident. The transfer effect is enormous.

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Michael Grose

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The emotional connection that comes with being a mum or a dad means that we have hopes and dreams for our kids. It also means that we sometimes struggle with our parenting. We can all raise our neighbour's kids; but with our own it's quite different.

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Michael Grose

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The biggest factor, by far, impacting kids’ achievement levels is hard work. I’m not just talking about work ethic, although that’s a factor. It’s the ability to stick at a task until you work it out.