My story to help my three children learn to read and spell started in 2004 when my oldest son started school. He struggled with literacy, as did my other two children. As a trained teacher myself, I thought I could help them, but everything I had learnt at teacher’s college and in the classroom, did not help at all. It just led to more tears and tantrums at home. My children were shutting down and becoming anxious and I didn’t know what to do. So... I did what most mothers do. I start researchin

My story to help my three children learn to read and spell started in 2004 when my oldest son started school. He struggled with literacy, as did my other two children. As a trained teacher myself, I thought I could help them, but everything I had learnt at teacher’s college and in the classroom, did not help at all. It just led to more tears and tantrums at home. My children were shutting down and becoming anxious and I didn’t know what to do. So... I did what most mothers do. I start researchin

My story to help my three children learn to read and spell started in 2004 when my oldest son started school. He struggled with literacy, as did my other two children. As a trained teacher myself, I thought I could help them, but everything I had learnt at teacher’s college and in the classroom, did not help at all. It just led to more tears and tantrums at home. My children were shutting down and becoming anxious and I didn’t know what to do. So... I did what most mothers do. I start researchin