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Super Personalised Book: What Makes It Different From A Personalised Book?
Super Personalised Books offer super personalisation of storybooks to its readers. The difference? It’s the value-added features that you can’t find in any other personalised storybooks. These special features of the book are carefully thought of and aimed to enhance...
Why Every Child Needs A Super Personalised Book?
How many storybooks today represent your child in a way Super Personalised Books do? The truth is, there is really not much, in fact, a study in 2006 suggests that only 5% of the storybooks feature black people, and in 2016-a decade later, this number only rose to...
Benefits of reading 10 minutes a day
BENEFITS OF READING 10 MINUTES A DAY!! There are a number of benefits to a reading just 10 minutes a day, and I will quickly go through them! As a parent, you are your child’s first teacher. Your home is a place where lots of learning is happening every day....
I can make a difference
As a parent, I always strive to instil in my children the value of making a positive difference in the world. So, I sat down with my 5-year-old daughter, Sofia and asked her a question that I believe is crucial: “How can you make a difference?” Her...
Love for Reading?
As a dad of a 5-year-old girl, I can proudly say that my love for reading started at a young age. I remember my parents reading me bedtime stories, taking me to the library, and encouraging me to pick up a book whenever I had a free moment. Now, as a parent myself,...
Parenting With A Big Heart
As a mum of a wonderful 5-year-old girl named Sofia, I know first hand how important it is to parent with a big heart. Sofia and I love spending time together reading personalised books, and it’s a great way to teach her about kindness, empathy, and compassion....
Teaching Children To Believe In Themselves!
Dear fellow parents, I believe that one of the most important lessons we can teach our children is to believe in themselves. As a parent myself, I know how challenging it can be to instil self-confidence in our little ones. However, I have found that reading...
THE HONEST READER
As a parent who loves reading personalised books, I know how important it is to find the right book for your child. With so many options out there, it can be challenging to know where to start. That’s why I’ve become an honest reader – someone who shares...
How to use parenting affirmation for kids?
Hello fellow parents! As a mom of a 5-year-old girl, I know how important it is to encourage and support our children in their growth and development. Have you heard of parenting affirmations? That is one powerful way to help our children develop a strong sense of...
Why Children Struggle with Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is an essential skill necessary for school and life success. It’s also an essential skill for all students. It helps them to understand what they are reading and the lessons they learn in class. However, many children struggle with reading...
Does Shared Reading In Childhood Affect Reading Appetite In Adulthood?
Reading is a fundamental part of childhood. Yet, many parents find it hard to get their kids to sit down and read. It is an important part of the child’s development. In fact, early childhood educators suggest building a reading habit in the child’s early...
Why I Never Miss Reading My Child A Bedtime Story
Since my daughter was born, I committed to giving her the best life in every way I can. When she was about five months old, I bought a few picture books and began reading to her every night. This was not something natural to me because I could only recall very few...
7 Habits To Instil A Positive Mindset In Your Child
Optimism, or having a positive outlook on life, challenges, and situations, is essential for success. It’s an innate attitude that looks at the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. An optimistic person does not leave a situation unresolved, instead, he...
How To Explain Death To A Child
Talking about death with a child is hard, and many parents feel anxious about it. Young children have a hard time understanding their emotions, events, and situations that are new to them. It can be hard to tell how well a child copes with the death of a loved one,...
Does bedtime reading help children sleep?
Expecting a baby is such a special yet confusing time, especially for first-time parents. The moment you step out of the hospital, you realise that you are on your own, tending to the new human being you brought into the world. Is he hungry again? How do I get the...
Why A Reading Habit Should Be Encouraged by Nurseries
Many children start school without being school ready. School readiness has a big impact on the academic performance of the child. In fact, research shows that most children who start school without being school-ready fall behind their peers and most of them never...
How to Help Children Handle BIG Emotions
Children go through different stages in their early childhood, and it may take a little while before they are able to handle, manage, and control their emotions. Helping children know and understand their own emotions is crucial in their development. When children...
5 Practical Tips to Master Bedtime Reading
Bedtime reading is one of the most underrated gems of parenthood. Although not many parents realise, bedtime reading actually holds a multitude of benefits for the parent and for the child. Regular bedtime reading in babies and toddlers is scientifically proven to...
5 Reasons Why You Should Gift A Child A Book this Christmas
Everyone loves the Christmas season, especially the children! Christmas is such a wonderful time, the Christmas season brings a happy and festive mood to every household. But, what the children really look forward to most are the gifts they receive on Christmas day!...
Why Your Child’s Vocabulary Should Be Developed In Their Early Years
Vocabulary development is such an important part of your child’s early years. In fact, recent studies on early childhood development found that early vocabulary development and inhibitory control have been linked to academic success later on in life. Vocabulary...
The Real Reason Why Your Child Struggles to Focus and Concentrate
It’s natural for young children to have a relatively short attention span. In fact, an average toddler’s attention span is only between 3 to 6 minutes! Children are easily distracted, aside from the fact that they are most curious in their toddler years...
Raising Honest Kids: Why Parent-and-Child Communication Matter
Honesty is a core value and moral character that even adults have a hard time putting into practice. It is attributed to trustworthiness, straightforwardness, and integrity. People who are trustworthy are easy to trust. When you are honest, you are also more trusting...
Raising A Champion: 9 Secrets on How to Raise Smart Children
Every parent wants to raise a smart child. The reason is quite obvious, a person’s intelligence directly affects their chance for success. However, raising a smart child is not a walk in the park. But, it’s not too hard either. There are a lot of things...
Children Born in Literacy-Challenged Communities Have Lower Life Expectancies
A 2015 study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) found that children born in literacy-challenged communities have shorter life expectancies than those born in wealthier households. Low income is directly associated with literacy. So, children born in...
Literacy and Life Chance: How Literacy Affects Health and Mortality
Literacy (or lack thereof) directly affects a person’s quality of life. In a simple sense, literacy is a person’s ability to read, write, and communicate. Almost every aspect of your life is dependent on literacy in the present and in the future. A study...
Traumatic Grief in Children: How to help a child cope with the loss of a loved one
The death of a loved one can be a devastating experience for children. Children who experience traumatic grief often have a difficult time coping with everyday life after the death of a loved one. They may be unable to attend school, have trouble sleeping and become...
Teaching Children Basic Literacy: the Responsibility of Parents or Preschool Educators?
As COVID restrictions loosen, more and more schools open their classrooms once again for the students. Schools in Britain welcome a new batch of children on their first day of school. Since the return of the regular school year, debates on the responsibility of...
Reading Milestones: Why reading to your chronological age matter
Did you know that a child’s brain develops most in the first five years of life? During this phase, the brain makes millions of new connections every second, this rate is never repeated again at any other point in a child’s life. The human brain is only...
Growing your child’s vocabulary through reading
Vocabulary is more than just knowing a word or a group of words. It’s actually all of a person’s understanding of a word, including what it means, when it is used, how to utter it, and how to apply it in a phrase. All of these factors contribute to the...
Reading for pleasure: an intrinsic motivator to achieve academic success
Reading for pleasure refers to the child’s ability to freely choose a time to read because they actually enjoy reading rather than being forced to read in fear of punishment, or choosing to read in exchange for a reward. When a child reads for pleasure, he/she...
Five Effective Parenting Tips on How to Raise A Happy and Confident Child
More than raising successful children, the main parenting goal for most parents is to raise a mentally well and happy child. Sure, there are many proven ways, scientific ways even how to raise brilliant and successful children. But, do parents really talk about how to...
Effective Communication Tips to Get Your Child to Open Up
Your parent-and-child relationship is one of the most crucial relationships you’ll ever have in your life. Contrary to what most parents think, spending time with your child is not enough relationship-building to get you on the right track with them. What you...
Diverse Books to Improve Cultural Awareness in Children
What makes the world extra special and beautiful is the diversity of the people. Different people come from different cultural backgrounds, different races, and different physical appearances. The world is so diverse and that is what makes it beautiful. But, how do we...
5 Things You Should Know When Preparing Your Child for the Big School
Transitioning from toddlerhood to preparing for the big school can be an emotional time for every parent. Your little one is your baby, and soon, you’ll have to send them off to school. Stepping into the big school is a milestone for every child, you are sending...
How to Help your Child with School Stress: 7 Practical Tips
School is such an exciting phase in every child’s life, this is where they learn new things, meet new friends, and learn how to socialize and interact with their peers and teachers. However, not all children get along with school very well. In fact, some...
The Struggles of Mum Guilt and the Fear of Not Doing Enough
Mum guilt refers to the kind of guilt that many mothers feel about how they “mother” their children. Many new mothers experience mum guilt, especially in the early days following childbirth. First-timer mothers are most susceptible to mum guilt because...
No Phones on the Bed: Tips for a Gadget-Free Bedtime Routine with Your Child
Too much use of smartphones is affecting family relationships, and children are not the only ones guilty. There’s no denying that smartphones are the best improvement in technology, they changed the way we communicate and get information. Ironically, the...
Five Early Literacy Practices You Should Do with Your Child at Home
Early literacy is one of the most important areas of development in the life of a child. Early child development happens in the child’s first five years and into their early school years. Early literacy refers to the development of a child’s skills such as...
Diverse Children’s Books for Cultural Awareness in Children
Representation in books is very important, especially for children. When children never see their culture represented in books, they receive a resounding message that their culture is not as important as others (Cambell Naidoo, 2014). Recent studies show that there is...
Children’s Mental Health: A Rising Health Crisis Today
Caring for your child goes deeper than what meets the eye. Today, children’s mental health is a growing health crisis, one that every parent should pay serious attention to. When you hear the words anxiety and depression you may think that these are adult mental...
Books that Give You Value for Your Money
Children’s storybooks may feel quite the same, offer the same benefits, have the same purpose, do the same function. But if you look closer and spend more time getting to know each book you give to your child, thoroughly examining its benefits, you’ll...
Things You Wish You Did In the First Five Years of Your Child’s Life
They said it takes a village to raise a child. True enough, there are a hundred different things that you should learn to do all at once when you become a parent. Parenting is both simple and complex, but for a first-time parent, parenting is much more complex because...
Reading literacy in the UK: 1 in 11 disadvantaged children say they don’t own a book
Literacy is a primary concern in all the countries around the world because it greatly affects the whole population. It is the foundation of every person, how well they do in school, later on in their careers, their quality of life, and life, in general, is predicted...