Fifteen years ago, when I was a teacher, I gave my learners homework because that is what a good teacher did, without stopping to question whether homework was, in fact, beneficial for them.

According to the Missing Persons Bureau, “A child goes missing every 6 hours in South Africa.”

“I don’t want to go to school,” Your child tells you a few days before the start of the new school year. Disappointed you want to respond with anger, but take a deep breath and spend some time listening to what is troubling your child

As the year draws to a close you may be experiencing mixed feelings of sadness, irritability, excitement, failure, hope, exhaustion, and unfulfilled expectations.

Imagine you’re nine years old. Your first test is on Friday, and you have your book in front of you. Your mom tells you to revise your study material. Feeling helpless and ill-equipped, you stare at the pages, hoping that somehow you will remember something.

Teaching your children about safety is very important because crime will not be going away anytime soon and your child will face many different kinds of potential crime throughout his or her life.