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When every question becomes a checkpoint

How to ask about school without turning the kitchen into an interrogation room.

Term 3 is grinding on, the pressure is rising, and you have noticed the exchanges getting shorter.

You ask how school was, that practice exam went or whether the assignment is done, and you get a word back.. if that.

So, you ask again, a little more pointedly, and the shoulders go up, and what was meant to be a chat has become a standoff.

The one small shift this week

Swap one "have you done it?" for one "what's it actually like right now?" Ask it once, then stop talking and listen.

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What two big changes in education mean for your kid, in plain language

If you have a teenager, you already feel the pressure of the single number they are funnelled towards.

Here is something worth knowing: the people who design the education system have spent nearly a decade quietly agreeing that the number was never the whole story.

As these agreements have occurred, two changes have emerged that are important to know.

The one small shift this week

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If you have a teenager, you already feel the pressure of the single number they are funnelled towards.

Here is something worth knowing: the people who design the education system have spent nearly a decade quietly agreeing that the number was never the whole story.

As these agreements have occurred, two changes have emerged that are important to know.

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