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We're always amazed by how the schools handle children. ?Every child is treated individually, and in our daughters school there is a great emphasis on individual learning styles.
No one should have concerns about moving their children here. ?If the report says many more children are involved in accidents, it's because they are out having fun, climbing trees etc, like kids SHOULD be doing. ?Not like the UK where all the kids are in front of their playstation, with their cigarettes, cans of tennants super and their new born baby.
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This is music to my ears Taffy, I can't describe to you the way reading your words made me feel! I have dreamed of this individualistic approach - because I know that without it my kids are gonna struggle and let's face it kids are all individual. They all learn at different paces in different ways and at different times. Did you know that in Denmark, one of the countries at the top of this list by the way, kids don't even start school until they're 6 and then don't start learning to read or write until they are between 7 and 8 at which time they just pick it up and fly. That's because at that age they are ready to learn, trying to cram their tiny minds with too much stuff too early could actually be setting them up to fail and then giving them the means to switch off because they feel stupid, hence a lack of confidence and self-esteem develops.
And right on man, let the kids do what they should be doing - playing. I am absolutley positive that all of us of a certain age have fallen out of a tree, been hit with a cricket ball, come a cropper when a dodgy go-kart fell apart en route coz the pram wheels fell off it, been rapped on the knuckles with a conker, had bruised, scabby knees and skint palms from going flat out on tarmac when a stone stopped your roller skates dead, had twisted ankles from seeing how high you could jump off a swing or had our faces turned bright red from being held into submission in one of the wrestling positions you watched on World of Sport on a Saturday afternoon.
So you got it folks, sign up now for the movetonz all in wrestling bout! Team Dawn will be arriving July!
But seriously, I'm hoping that NZ is just gonna let my children be and as a parent you really can't ask for tmuch more than that.