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A New Notebook: Beautiful or Intimidating?
A new notebook. It’s a beautiful thing, isn’t it? The smell of it, the blinkingly bright white pages, the crisp swish as you flip through it for the first time. But it’s also so very daunting. Those fresh clean pages need something worthwhile written on them. They shouldn’t be wasted. Especially the first page. You…
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Sixteen sneaky ways to get a reluctant reader reading
Reading is so important for children. Did you know the average reading age of adults in the UK is 9? 9! That means, naturally, that there is a large proportion of adults with a higher reading age, but there is also a large proportion with a reading age well below that too. Shocking, isn’t it?…
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Orbiting
Isn’t it funny how society circles and circles around itself? How all teenagers and children think they’re discovering things for the first time, but it’s mostly just the same stuff their parents, and their grandparents, went through. I cringe now when I remember coming home from university brimming with knowledge that I thought I was…
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