REUTERS/Naomi Tajitsu In my Future-proof Your Child book and presentation published by Penguin and co-authored with futurist, Dr Graeme Codrington, we talk about the fact that we are entering a brave new world: a world filled with warp-speed [...]
School open day season has begun. Every February/March street pole advertising around the country is taken over by schools offering preschool, primary and high school education. They are vying for the attention of prospective parents who are looking to make [...]
In my book Tech-Savvy Parenting , Arthur Goldstuck and I discuss effective parenting and the evolution of learning and how technology is changing the way teachers teach and children learn. Technology is being introduced into classrooms via blended learning which is bringing [...]
It's back-t0-school time and if you want to keep panic at bay and be a super-organised parent, I have packaged some of my tried and tested parenting strategies in an ebook called Back-to-School Sanity Savers. It's written for, and dedicated [...]
As a positive parenting guest speaker, I often take holidays over the festive season when the speaking circuit is quiet. I’ve been on holiday for two weeks but now it’s back to school and work. It’s been great to sleep in, eat [...]
Book a team building workshop for teachers with inspirational speaker, Nikki Bush, to motivate your staff. Teachers need to pull together as a team to achieve their common goal of raising tomorrow’s leaders today. This means co-operating, communicating, putting individual [...]
Positive parenting insights from motivational speaker Nikki Bush: Your children spend between five and seven hours a day in the classroom, depending on their age, plus time spent doing extra-mural activities. It’s a big chunk of their day and it [...]
Colour and counting are important early learning foundations. Here are three favourite products to stimulate school readiness skills: Jack-in-the-box R150.00 (colour matching) Click on the image to enlarge. The colour that turns up is the [...]
Back to school with Nikki Bush and SABC3's Expresso Click here to view my recent television interview on the topic of going back to school, how to deal with children's anxiety, parental anxiety and getting them settled as soon as [...]
Parenting on 2 - 3 hours a day - is it enough? At various parenting talks I have given recently I have informally surveyed how much time full-time working parents are actually spending with their children (when they are [...]