100 things to learn before you're 10

`100 Things to Learn before you’re 10’ is an educational book to help parents. Drawing on 40 years teaching experience, it explains why every child would benefit from the little extra help it provides during their formation years. This book is packed with examples, activities, insights and stories. It helps show you how to make sure your children learn the skills they need to get the most out of school and life. Give your child what they really need so that they become happier, more confident and self assured as they learn. They will grow to be well rounded adults! It is during the first 12 years after birth that each life develops the framework for its future. Parents who are juggling the demands of modern life and work, while they are raising their children ask many questions. They may often feel their children `could do better’ and become very concerned if a child’s school report highlights this. However, many parents aren’t confident with changing children’s attitudes, what to teach or how to really motivate and encourage them. Especially if the children have `switched off’ and no longer respond to what their parents say. This book addresses these issues and questions and looks at the reasons why so many children under-perform at school and what can be done about aligning them at core, so that they stay connected to the positive influences that are in them at birth. It puts forward tried and tested lessons, tools and strategies that have been developed during forty years of teaching experience and have been repeatedly proven effective with children.

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.” Gail Hugman