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The world has changed. The future has changed. Childhood is changing. Raising children has never been more challenging – or potentially rewarding. This presentation is suitable for anyone involved in raising children, from parents to teachers, aunts, uncles, grandparents and even parents to be.

Nikki Bush, creative parenting expert and author, explores what you need to know about tomorrow’s world and what you need to do to prepare today’s children for a world that doesn’t yet exist. The focus is on understanding the future, creating appropriate structures and developing characteristics in your children (and yourself) that will help them face anything that life might throw at them.

Raising children who will “be talent” is to raise children who are going to have what it takes not just to survive this new world, but who will be able to shape and influence it too. To be successful in the future, our children need to be “future-proofed” by influential adults (primarily their parents and teachers) in the foundation phase of their lives – from birth to age 10 – before they enter puberty.

This thought provoking one hour multimedia presentation will introduce you to the X-factors required for success in 2020 and beyond, providing many practical ideas to help children to develop them from an early age. It will highlight the critical importance of making choices, having conversations and choosing to consciously connect with tomorrow’s children today.

This presentation can be customised for educators.  It is called Raising Tomorrow’s Talent Today.

FEEDBACK ABOUT FUTURE-PROOF YOUR CHILD:

Stuff we really need to know.

A great argument.

Tom Peters and Thomas Friedman for parents!

Inspiring.  Loved your personal stories, it made it all really real.

My husband hates going to parenting talks but he loved this one.

Thank you for showing us how important family life still is today.

I could really identify with your personal stories.

TESTIMONIAL ABOUT FUTURE-PROOF YOUR CHILD:

“As an Educator, I have a responsibility to the children in our schools.

As an Educator, I have a responsibility to the parents in our school.

As an Educator, I have a responsibility to the school’s community.

This is a daunting task as we face a future of uncertainty, a future of constant change and a future of technology where most of us are IT immigrants.  Future-proof Your Child (Penguin, 2008) is one of the best books to read and one that I strongly recommended to both educators and parents.

Education is one of a parent – school partnership where both parties are jointly responsible for their child’s learning.  In the field of Early Childhood we constantly here the words change, technology and the challenges of 21st Century children! What are the implications for us? Future-proof Your Child gives us clear and comforting direction, practical ideas and an alternate viewpoint to stimulate different thinking and discover a different approach.

Both Educators and Parents need to engage their children in their learning environment and understand how they learn and what they learn and how to use their learning. Future-proof Your Child gives practical guidelines; it encourages us along the journey of educating for the future, a future without fear, and shows us how to enjoy our child’s journey, overcoming the challenges and learning for life. “ Sue Pilkington-Williams, Principal, Crawford Pre-Primary School, La Lucia