6 Study Habits To Help Your Teen Achieve His/Her Full Academic Potential

As a mum to a soon 17-year old, I know how the move into Middle School, with subject-taught classes and long-term projects, can test a child’s organisation and time management skills. Add to it the extensive use of technology in the form of personal laptops given for schoolwork and social media and the instant connection to friends. And, in more cases than ever, the pressure that children get to succeed academically, resulting in schedules packed with extra-curricular activities, tuition and enrichment classes, and as result less time for homework and personal study.
No wonder that it can be extremely challenging for our teens to stay focused and get their homework done efficiently. Here are 6 study habits your child should consider embracing to achieve his/her full academic potential.

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Six easy steps to organise hand-me-downs

You want to keep the clothes that your child has outgrown to pass them onto her younger siblings so you can save your wallet and the planet, but you keep forgetting about them or can’t find them when you need them.  Sounds familiar?  Well, they say, all you need is love.  But in that case, you may also need a system to organise hand-me-downs.  Read on…

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Toys organisation: 4 simple tips for when there are just too many toys

Are your child’s toys taking over your home?
Then I’m sure you appreciate how seeing toys strewn all over your home and that seem to reappear within hours of your past attempts to straighten up can affect your sanity.
But did you know that too many toys can also affect your child’s development?  Indeed a recent study conducted by the University of Toledo in the US showed that children who have too many toys to play with are more easily distracted and show less interest in their toys, while children who have fewer toys play longer and use their imaginations more.
So if it’s not for your own sanity, I think it’s time you do something to end the toys chaos at home for your children’s sake, don’t you think?  This is how.

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How to help your messy kids be more organised

So you’ve tried to help your messy kids be more organised so that you could stop arguing over clutter and tardiness and restore a more harmonious atmosphere at home, but haven’t got much luck so far. Let me guess… You’ve tried to appeal to their common sense, it hasn’t worked. You’ve tried to threaten and remove privileges, it has worked for a while but it all started all too soon again… So how?! Below are the 5 most common mistakes I see parents make – and have caught myself making at times!! – when it comes to trying to get their messy kids more organised and what can be done instead.

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How to avoid the morning rush – A Professional Organiser cum Mother’s tips to smooth mornings

Are you always in a rush in the mornings on school days trying to make sure that everyone gets ready on time? Do you make the school bus wait or drop your children to school past the time? Do things, whether it’s your child school work, her PE music instrument or your exercise gear, tend to be forgotten at home? Although this moment of the day is short, it can be very intense and charged with crankiness and low patience level. So with the imminent start of a new school year, let me share 5 tips to help you avoid the morning rush.

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How to prepare for the new school year

I don’t know about you, but it feels like the summer holidays went by very quickly, too quickly in fact… Just a couple of weeks left before the beginning of another school year. Back-to-school time often comes with some degree of anxiety and stress not only for the kids but also for their parents. But well, we can’t escape it, can we? So just take a deep breath, sit down for 5 minutes and give me a chance to share my top 7 tips to set the whole family up to a smooth start and year.

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