You're Already Doing It
June 26, 2026
There's this idea that learning needs to look a certain way. A table. A worksheet. Someone sitting still. A dedicated time for it.Most family life looks nothing like that. And a lot of parents carry a quiet guilt about it.But also, sometimes dinner is just dinner. Sometimes ...
The Voice In Their Head
June 14, 2026
You know that voice in your head that pipes up right before something hard? The one that says "you're going to stuff this up" or "everyone's going to laugh"?Your child has one too. And it's running pretty much constantly.That voice shapes everything. How they feel in their b...
Skills For Life
May 29, 2026
Schools tend to measure success in a fairly consistent way. Academic results. Sporting achievements. Maybe the occasional diligence award at prize giving. These things matter and they definitely deserve to be celebrated.But what we pay attention to shapes what children learn...
The Battery Analogy Everyone Needs to Know
May 15, 2026
Your brain has a battery. Learning drains it. But so does dealing with tricky friendships, a loud room, a hard morning at home, being hungry, being tired, and just the weight of a full school day.When it's full, a child can think clearly, handle frustration, and keep going. ...
What a Different Kind of Learning Can Do
May 3, 2026
There's a growing body of research on what happens when children learn in smaller, more flexible environments. The findings are worth knowing about, not just for children who are visibly struggling, but for any child who hasn't quite found their footing yet.When a learning e...
The Thing About Motivation
March 23, 2026
Last week our Growing Minds Hub kids went to Crankworx. And while what the athletes could do was genuinely jaw-dropping, what we were sneakily trying to teach was something else entirely: what motivation actually looks like in a human being.Nobody forced those riders to spen...
The Nervous System Doesn't Care About Your Curriculum
March 10, 2026
A child who doesn't feel safe cannot learn. Not "learns less well." Cannot learn.When the brain detects a threat, it pulls energy away from the thinking parts and redirects it toward survival. And "threat" doesn't mean a lion. It means fear of getting something wrong in fron...
Big feelings are part of childhood, but when emotions go from “big” to overwhelming, it can leave everyone in the house feeling on edge. If your child goes from 0 to 100 quickly (yelling, crying, melting down, slamming doors, refusing to cooperate), it’s easy to feel l...
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Growing Minds Hub Ltd is a New Zealand limited liability company providing individualised educational psychology support, parenting support, learning and neurodiversity support, and parent and teacher workshops.
Growing Minds Hub Charitable Trust is a registered charitable trust operating The Growing Minds Academy — a community programme supporting children's wellbeing and learning.
