Lauren

If you have a slow learner in the family it can be quite distressing all round.  You don’t always recognise a problem at the beginning.  It is often when the child becomes quiet and withdrawn, or the opposite, disruptive and attention seeking that problems with school work sometimes make themselves…

When we sign up for anykind of learning course, there is an expectation that the student is capable of applying themselves to the teaching methods presented throughout the course.  Some people can absorb a great deal of information straight off the board or screen – reading, comprehending and then being…

I have recently been visiting a group of senior ciizens who are in the mid term of dementia.  I have plenty of experience of the vagaries and cruel life sapping nature of this illness.  Both my mother and mother in law have sucumbed and it is dreadful.   The sadness is…

Having just come back froma really fab family christmas, I realise it was a tremendously educational and uplifting time.   We were staying in a very old cottage that the parents had bought when first married.  They have gradually done all the conversion and rebuilding work turning two tiny cottages…

I often wonder if there is a nice little secretarial post out there needing a part timer –  few hours a week would be a nice little way to keep in with other human beings and earn pocket money . . . . .   Of course, life is not like…

One of the little pleasures connected with getting older is being able to take the up hobbies long thought about in the earlier years of life.  When we leave school, unless there has been some opportunity to play music and study it properly, the chances are that one doesn’t pursue…

When you take part in any training course, for any subject and for any purpose, it is absolutely essential to make sure you understand the main thrust of the course.  Is the subject matter helpful to you in your current post, or is it to enable you to advance to…

There have been so many changes in the last few years in the way we learn – it is a far cry form the days at school when we were talked down to by the teacher who wrote everything laboriously up on the chalk board and we simply copied it…

Knowing how to learn any subject takes a little time.  Obviously if it’s something that we already like a lot, perhaps music or modern languages, or even English literature, then the learning curve is never going to be a steep as with someone who is starting from first base without…