PARENTING NEWSLETTER ARTICLES for PRE-PRIMARY AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN SOUTH AFRICA

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It’s not too late to sign your school up for this really useful parent education and connection tool.  40 short, topical and informative parenting articles per year for use in your school newsletters and on your website, written by Nikki Bush, creative parenting expert, speaker and author of the bestseller, Future-proof Your Child (Penguin, 2008).

Parenting Matters was started out of a request made by a group of 70 school Heads at the 2008 SAHISA conference who said that they needed to focus on writing about education and school matters and would be happy to pay for syndicated parenting information.  Now in its third year, Parenting Matters saves school Heads upward of 140 hours of research and writing time a year and has become a favourite part of many a school newsletter.

“Through her insightful, sensible, and entertaining Parenting Matters commentaries, Nikki Bush is providing a crucially important back-up in support of so many of the messages that educators and management in schools are sending out to their parent communities. More than ever we as educators are aware of our pastoral role and, in particular, where we should be offering advice and counsel to parents as they struggle to adjust to the many challenges and pitfalls of modern day parenting. Nikki shares common sense, practical wisdom with those who need to hear, as she focuses on the importance of family, making time for relationship building, and helping parents to delight in the innate and natural qualities of parenting that will provide opportunities to share and care into the lives of their children in ways that will help to equip as much as they help to protect.” Richard Stanley, Highbury Preparatory, KZN

“I think the most wonderful aspect of Parenting Matters for me is that Nikki is able to say what we can’t. She can preach to the parents and say what we would love to because she is a neutral third party. So often, I feel as a Head, that we should be educating the parents and not only the children. Nikki does that for you. Another bonus is that you can also glean ideas for assemblies from Parenting Matters and flesh them out for the pupils. I really believe this weekly column in our newsletter has been well received by our parent body.” Tim Irving, HeronBridge College (Prep), Gauteng

For more information or to subscribe, please email  info@brightideasoutfit.co.za or download the Background Information and the Subscription Form directly.

First-time subscribers receive a free copy of Nikki’s Future-proof Your Child book.

TITLES OF PARENTING MATTERS ARTICLES FOR 2011

NOVEMBER 2011

• Children of substance
• How full is your bowl?
• Everyone needs a Dumbo feather

OCTOBER 2011

• Children shine at different times
• Reaching your child’s head through the funny bone
• Hands-on confidence
• Getting unstuck

SEPTEMBER 2011

• Stickability
• Unplugged fun
• Sleep on it
• How good are you at family face-to-face time?

AUGUST 2011

• An education has never been more important but…..
• The cellphone debate
• Fear of fear itself
• Well done for today!

JULY 2011

• The money or the box?
• Keep it regular
• Death is part of life
• Unboggle the mind

JUNE 2011

• Seeing through the eyes of a child
• Homework hurdles
• It’s a big, big world out there
• Change yourself, change your child

MAY 2011

• Dig deep in the early years
• What you don’t know, you don’t know
• You cannot pick up your footprints
• Party pack-itis is a real disease

APRIL 2011

• Twitter and parenting are more alike than you think
• When the student is ready
• Life is like a hot air balloon
• Praise addiction

MARCH 2011

• Are your children living in the Red Zone?
• Community service counts more than you think
• The doodle space
• Everyone else and their mother
• Imagine you’re the front page news

FEBRUARY 2011

• What you do today counts
• Surprise your children
• Respect, manners, ladies and gentlemen
• The silent conversation killer