Wednesday Wisdom
Tooled Up tips for loving parents around the world
19/03/2025
Celebrating Different Minds
Imagine a classroom filled with children who think, learn and experience the world in diverse and unique ways. One child might fidget constantly. Another might ask a hundred questions before lunch. Some may process information best through movement, others might focus intensely on certain tasks. Some might struggle with traditional learning methods but excel in areas like creative thinking or problem-solving. For neurodivergent children, these differences are often misinterpreted as challenges to be fixed, but variation in how we think and learn is a natural part of human diversity and the human race needs difference!
12/03/2025
Well-Beeing
When scrolling through my daily newsfeed, I was asking myself: how are such things happening? How could someone be so cruel? What are we doing about violence against women and girls? Why are diplomats not better at being diplomatic? Why do people commit terrible atrocities? How can smacking children STILL be legal in the UK? Why aren’t girls allowed to learn in Afghanistan? ARGH!
05/03/2025
Read Your Way
For parents of primary-aged children, it is likely to come as no surprise that it is World Book Day this week. My kids are now both at secondary school, where World Book Day celebrations are more low key, but I remember that the pressure to sort a costume is real!
26/02/2025
Food as Enemy
It is Eating Disorder Awareness Week in the UK. Most of us will know someone who is currently battling or has previously battled an eating disorder, though we may not realise it. This is a timely week to think about prevalence, prevention and proactive approaches to supporting children and young people.
12/02/2025
Digital Detectives
Yesterday was 'Safer Internet Day', an annual event which describes itself as ‘the UK’s biggest celebration of online safety’. This year’s theme is Too Good to Be True? Protecting Yourself and Others from Scams Online’.
05/02/2025
Know Yourself, Grow Yourself
The theme for Children’s Mental Health Week 2025 across the UK is ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’, with the aim to equip and empower children and young people to embrace self-awareness and explore what it means to them. We want children and young people to discover how getting to know who they are can help them to build resilience, grow and develop.
29/01/2025
Preparing for All Weather
As I write this week’s Wednesday Wisdom, the rain is pouring down relentlessly. The sky is grey, the office is gloomy. Yesterday, hailstones thundered onto the roof and I’m not sure that the garden plants enjoyed the experience. Still, living in the South East of England, I feel that I’ve got off lightly. I certainly haven’t really experienced the full force of storms Éowyn and Herminia, which have been battering the UK and Ireland over the past few days.
22/01/2025
The Heart's Anchor
We have all borne recent witness to television or social media scenes of people who have lost everything through war and conflict, and via devastating natural disasters. It has been sobering to see people sitting in the rubble of their own home, being reunited with lost relatives, animals, or clutching a few precious items in transit or whilst displaced.