I wonder if anyone has tried to imagine a world where there was no respect? Everyone demands or expects respect, but not everyone deserves or gets it. You could define respect as ‘having a positive feeling of esteem for a person or an entity’, but I think it goes far deeper than that. It is [...]
I have found that the word Integrity or the meaning of the word is not often used around teens these days. I think that’s a shame; and my intention when I created the Bina programme was to change that and introduce other words such as Accountability and Reliability etc. into mainstream education and to teens’ [...]
If you are wondering what’s so special about 11-13 year olds with decision making, then you are probably not aware that they exhibit certain traits during this developmental stage that are important and sometimes overlooked. If you are parent, teacher or youth worker etc, the traits below wouldn’t/shouldn’t surprise you: Want to be independent Begin [...]
If you are not a parent who has a child/ren in secondary schools, then you may not be aware of what’s covered in sex education. But if you do, then I suggest you take a close look and find out what exactly they are learning; you just maybe surprised! My niece is in her 1st [...]
When the news about the MPs expense scandal broke months ago, the public uproar demonstrated I wasn’t the only one disappointment that the MPs we had voted in, had let us down in the way they had abused the system. Yes, the system was to blame for letting them get away with it for so [...]
