KooBits Insights | Holistic Learning

What kind of motivation works better for your child?

Constantly nagging at your child to get a certain task done? Well, then you’d be familiar with the struggle of getting c...

3 Most Productive Ways To Spend The March Holidays

Term 1 is almost over and the March holidays are just around the corner. Deciding how to spend the holidays can be trick...

10 Proven Ways to Get Your Child to Read More

It used to be easy to get kids to read. When I was young, there was very little distraction except for TV. Reading books...

5 Tips for Getting Kids to Enjoy Learning

Getting kids to learn isn’t always easy. They don’t want to follow along in a textbook that they feel is drawn out and b...

7 Comprehension Questions After Reading a Book

Asking comprehension questions are very important for both young and old readers. Advanced readers may not have too much...

5 ways to help children with different learning styles to study better

Most people have heard of differences in learning styles, such as “visual learners” or “those who learn by doing.” These...

Timeless Nursery Rhymes You Can Sing to Your Child

Nursery rhymes are timeless, and they will always be forever engraved in our memories. After all, who would ever forget ...

Tips To Keeping Your Brain Sharp

As you age, your brain changes just like the rest of your body. From infancy to toddler years, until you become an adult...

What Are The Importance and Benefits Of Occupational Therapy For Kids

Occupational therapy or OT is a treatment that helps a person perform their everyday tasks better. With kids, it is more...

Can You Make Your Child Smarter While You are Pregnant?

There is a popular, but slowly fading misconception that most children are born with the same intelligence, and it’s mos...

Early Childhood Education

The world is technologically developing, and in all other aspects day by day. This has led to an increase in the demand ...

6 Ways to Ace Your Geometry Homework

Many students consider geometry to be one of the hardest subjects. The fact that it is a subject that is not relatable t...

How Reading Affects Work Performance

As people get older and their lives start getting a lot busier, reading inevitably takes a back seat on their priority l...

Don’t Limit Screen Time: The Right TV can Supplement Childhood Education

As a parent, you hear a lot about how screen time is damaging your children’s brains, making it hard for them to learn, ...

Real world lessons kids should learn in school

Over time, many schools have shifted their focus from a healthy blend of academia and life skills to curriculums that ar...

Encouraging physical play in your kids: the benefit

In the last 25 years the number of obese people has trebled. Doctors and the government alike are concerned, and for goo...

4 ways to teach your child real life skills

There are many skills your children will need in the future that you can start teaching them now, at almost any age. No ...

5 careers glamorized by television

Television glamorizes many aspects of everyday life, including careers. Whether it’s crime scene analysts on CSI:Miami, ...

Music in child development: studies show that it is important

Music is a part of life for many people. It provides the soundtrack to our lives, reflecting our moods and passions. Bec...

How to juggle an education and a busy family life

Have you ever thought about learning a new skill or returning back to school? As a parent, you wouldn’t be the first per...

4 life lessons that teach kids how to manage money at university

Before you send your child off to university, there is probably a lot that is going through your mind. Not only do you h...

5 websites and apps that encourage creativity in kids

There is no doubt that technology and the internet have completely changed the shape of the classroom today. In fact, Th...

Dissertations writing tips for dummies

The title was meant to be a joke as nobody doing a dissertation is a dummy by any means. However, the “for dummies” bran...

5 writing tips for children to write a composition

Children typically have difficulties writing compositions because they don’t know how to start or are not motivated to d...

Important teaching techniques for specialized disciplines

In order to determine the learning ability of a student, there’s always a question about what matters most. Is it the co...

7 ways on how to test if your child is a genius

Every parent hopes that their child can be a genius, or at least be a highly intellectual person. What if your child rea...

List of toddlers words

It is always exciting to hear your toddler mumble their first words. However, it also means that they are ready to start...

How to test your child for color blindness

Color blindness affects 8% of the people. Hence it is not surprising to find out that your child might have this problem...

Ways to encouraging children to express themselves

In today’s world it’s so hard for kids to just be themselves. They are nearly suffocated by peer pressure and media mess...

How to teach kids music

The craze for becoming better music players among young boys and girls has never been as intense as it is in the present...

Teaching children to look after their things

Sending your kids off to school for the first time is a very important event in any parent’s life. They’ll need the corr...

The benefits of recreational sports for kids

Recreational sports are a favorite pastime for families with young children. Many families spend leisurely Saturday morn...

Home loan adjustable rate mortage – budgeting ideas for parents

Parents may especially need assistance to reduce the risk associated with adjustable rate mortgage (a/k/a “ARM”) issues....

How Video Games Can Help To Improve Kids’ Eyesight

There are lots of pros and cons when it comes to playing video games. The pros are of course that they provide children ...

How to Teach Kids About Money

There is a growing trend of young Singaporeans overspending and not saving enough*. This is a rather unhealthy cycle tha...

6 Cool Online Drawing and Painting Tools for the Young Artist

Art, like language, has always been the basic form of human expression. A recent study by archeologist Jess Cooney revea...

How to Choose the Right Toys for Your Kids

Toys are an inescapable part of any childhood. This is why selling toys is a billion dollar industry, with new kids toys...

Are you a good role model?

‘One of the most important things we adults can do for young children is to model the kind of person we would like them ...

How to Prepare Your Child – and Yourself – for Primary One

Given the stress that parents face during the important transition period from preschool to primary school, we wanted to...

Why Learning Phonics Is Important for Your Child

Phonics lessons are one of the more expensive enrichment courses in which parents can enroll their children. However, pr...

Listening to Your Child – 10 Questions to Ask

So much research has been done about the importance of communication in relationships – be it between spouses, between f...