Infant Education

The return to school is a little more complicated when the child opens school. There is no incentive to be reunited with his former classmates, because he does not know anyone, and the nerves to know what awaits him usually disturb the child, but also his parents. The first day of school usually causes stress and anxiety and it is important that the child feels supported and clothed by his family.

This will be your child's first year in kindergarten, and you can't hide your nervousness and the uncertainty caused by the adaptation period: will he cry? Will it adapt well? What will the relationship with their teachers be like? All these doubts are normal and logical, and they become even more intense when we leave our little one in class and the doors close.

With the return to school, the controversy of homework arises again: in favor or against children bringing homework? Many parents are opposed to this measure, and advocate afternoons of games and voluntary learning. And more and more schools are beginning to join this policy.

With the return to school and immediately, fears that we left parked on school vacations reappear. One of them, undoubtedly, is bullying, and more specifically cyberbullying, which is the way students haters harass their classmates. This is demonstrated by the latest report from the Foundation for Help to Children and Adolescents at Risk (ANAR), which states that "one in four cases of bullying is cyberbullying, one in three from the age of 13".

The beginning of the course is dangerously approaching and it is time to think about everything necessary for the return to school. Are you still in vacation mode and don't have the books your child needs? You are on time. We tell you where you can buy textbooks fast and at a good price for the return to school.

The stories have magic and we still remember them when we are older because we loved to hear them. Imaginary adventures or stories about how the dishwasher does not work ... What's the matter! The truth is that children love to hear stories, whether they are stories invented by their parents or stories from books.

A district of the state of Colorado is the last to join the four-day system in some schools in the United States, a measure that also seems to be becoming fashionable in Europe. In countries like France it is implemented and others such as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have also raised the idea of ​​reducing the school week to four days.

Ophelia is a three-year-old British girl, whose IQ exceeds that of geniuses like Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawkings. Her parents realized that her daughter had great potential when she was only eight months old, but it wasn't until the daycare began when a psychologist specializing in gifted children confirmed it.

In Babies and more, we have spoken on several occasions about gifted children, who used to be defined by the particularity of having an IQ (greater than 130), however, recent research and analysis show that IC is not the only thing or everything that defines them. And that's exactly what Carlos Santamaría thinks, the Mexican genius boy who at 12 years old, will begin his studies in Biomedical Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Reading the time is something we do every day and at different times of our day. It is definitely a basic skill that we all need to learn from an early age, because it helps us to better manage our times and thus be more organized people. However, learning to read the time can be a bit complicated for children.

Summer is the time of the year most likely for children to create addiction to screens. There is no school or extracurriculars, and this helps to spend too much time hooked on mobile or tablet. How can parents manage it? How to prevent them from sticking to the screens all summer?

They are called Pablo, Álvaro and Maikel and have just returned home with the champions trophy after winning the 2018 World Mental Calculation Championship on Sunday, in their respective categories according to their age. Pablo and Álvaro Quintanero are brothers and they attended first and third grade of Primary at the Virgen de la Caridad school in Illescas (Toledo).

A few days ago Magnet published a report on homeschooling in Spain, and in Babies and More we talked about all the considerations that a family that is planning to exercise should ensure, given the experiences of many interviewed families who opted for this option.

According to UNESCO figures, two out of 10 schoolchildren in the world suffer bullying, a sad reality that affects 246 million children and adolescents on the planet. With the newly completed school year, we may cease to be aware of this very serious problem for a while. But it should not be so, because bullying does not rest on vacation, and the more we know about it, the more weapons we will have to fight it and end this terrible scourge.

Achieving a more egalitarian education is the purpose of the Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Isabel Celaá. This was stated in his first appearance before the Education Committee of the Congress. There he deployed a battery of measures that he hopes to implement during his tenure. He has not specified deadlines or actions, although his wish is to be implemented in the 2019-2020 academic year.

We have not yet enjoyed the summer, and we are already suffering from the expenses of going back to school. It is to see the list of textbooks for the next course and start to sweat. To help us find the cheapest price, textbook price comparators have emerged that allow us to know the price of the same textbook, or several, in different places.

Increasingly, parents are turning to online sales to equip their children for back to school. Because it is more practical, faster and avoids having to go through libraries to get textbooks for our children. In addition, we can get discounts and very convenient prices from the comfort of home.

Homeschooling in Spain has been gaining a relative and modest strength in recent years. We have gone from not having documented cases or platforms that work for their recognition to see recurring cases in the press while associations of families that fight to practice education at home flourish with legal guarantees.

Salvador Carrión has been teaching at a school for six years, and tired of listening to humorous comments referring to teachers' long vacations, he decided to fight back with a great thread on his Twitter account that has quickly gone viral. Using the #docentesafortunados hashtag, Salvador has been explaining why teachers are fortunate to have the work they have, and has encouraged other colleagues to join their initiative in recognition of the work of teachers.

There are many studies to date that show that musical training in childhood improves children's brain development and skills when acquiring and processing language. But new research carried out by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has taken another step, in-depth study of the effects it has for children in early childhood education to learn to play the piano.