100 Things to Learn Before You're 10

'100 Things to Learn before you're 10' was written to help parents. It draws on 40 years teaching experience to explain why every child would benefit from the little extra help that it provides during their formation years. This book is packed with examples, activities, insights and stories to show you how to make sure your children learn the skills they need to get the most out of school and life. It will help you give your child what they really need so that they become happier, confident and self assured as they learn and grow to be well rounded adults.

Table of Contents:
Introduction, First things first, About Motivation, Core Alignment and Attitude, Lesson 1: The Two Lives, Poem: Alone we cannot change the world, Lesson 2: Your brain is meant to work for you!, It begins this way:, An example of how to train your brain to work for you: Learning Times Tables, Dazzle, Lesson 3: Start Here, Poem: We see the trees and flowers, Lesson 4: Time, More ways to help your child appreciate 'a minute' and learn more about themselves and what they are capable of, Using Time, When children need to speed up their work rate, Lesson 5: Listening, Teaching your child to listen, What children need to know about listening - reference that is helpful for the brain and how to develop the skill, Activities for teaching Listening to your child, The Sound Maker Hunt, Activity: The Jumpasound

About the Author :
"My books draw on 30 years of teaching and life experience. It took me at least 15 years to understand how children work and think and then another 15 years to work out what they need at core to help them excel. Parents do not have this time advantage. As soon as a child is born, they have to 'hit the ground running' and many have told me they are dogged by doubt and worry about the way they are raising their children. My books hold the lessons, tips, reasons and activities that I have found helpful in encouraging children's development and causing them to excel."I started teaching in 1974. It was pre-National Curriculum. Teachers were very much left to their own initiative and devices in social priority area school where my teaching began in Haringey. My first classroom had 200 bibles, a stock cupboard which was so full of scrap you could barely move and little else apart from 38 mixed ability year 6 children. This was where I felt my teacher training really began. Now forty years later, the whole world of education - and society - has changed beyond recognition. The National Curriculum has set down expectations; the world wide web is an intricate part of every classroom and teaching methods; children have access to a much greater range of activities and resources than ever before and teachers look to parents for motivating and reinforcing behaviour in their children."In the first 30 years, my experience included class teaching, covering the full primary range; I ran a unit for disruptive pupils for 3 years; worked with children with special needs and held various senior management roles working primarily in inner city schools. I taught one year in the USA and have had the privilege of being a guest observer in schools in Israel, South Africa and Mauritius."I set up Lessons Alive 12 years ago with the aim of helping interested parents and teachers to motivate and inspire children. I offer a bespoke teaching service for children and run talks and workshops for parents. My experience in schools and more recently my work with children in their homes has given me a unique perspective on the real issues faced by young learners."

Review :
"Over the past few years I have read a number of books that made me realise how much I didn't understand how I 'think', and these books have succeeded in making me think in a different way by giving me an insight into how the brain works. I've often found myself asking why I wasn't taught this stuff at school (apart from the fact that some of it wasn't know back then). And more importantly why it's not being taught in schools today. While reading '100 things to learn before you're 10' I found myself reading about situations I've been in, either with my own children as a parent or with children I meet as part of my job. It is already hard enough to understand how we think, but when dealing with children we also need to understand how they think - and that's not in the same way as us adults. Gail Hugman has provided us adults with a precious guide on how children think, and how we can help them understand it themselves. Parents, and teachers, will recognise issues they have had to deal with with children, whether it's tantrums or lack of concentration, getting distracted or failing to listen. It is up to us parents to decide how we want to raise our children, but we should do so after understanding as much as we can what's going on in their minds, and ours, and knowing what tools we can use to help them deal with their emotions and feelings." By Stephen Gruppetta