Wednesday Wisdom

Tooled Up tips for loving parents around the world

Summer Strategies

25/06/2025

Summer Strategies

It’s here. We’ve waited for it all year. We’ve talked about it with friends. We’ve dreamt of it, planned for it, and it has kept us going on those cold winter nights. Ah, summer… you promise so much… relaxation, unstructured time, memorable adventures and blissful family bonding. But do you always deliver?

A Day to Remember

18/06/2025

A Day to Remember

As a parent, there’s a special pleasure in seeing your children through other people’s eyes. In the everyday challenges of family life – school, homework, clubs and bedtimes – you can lose perspective on the bigger picture. Birthday parties offer a chance to witness your child in their natural habitat: playing and interacting with their peers, and being a typical kid.

Sport for Strength

11/06/2025

Sport for Strength

I am the Head of Research at Tooled Up, but outside of my work, I am proud to say that I am the Strongest Natural Woman in Scotland, and second strongest natural woman in the UK & Ireland. In this week’s edition of Wednesday Wisdom, I wanted to reflect on my sporting journey and share some insights that may open up conversations with young girls and women in your lives about the role sport can play in building body confidence.

Baby, Bathwater?

04/06/2025

Baby, Bathwater?

Without naming names, there is a campaign knocking around social media arguing for a ban on all tech being used as part of teaching and learning in schools. Several celebrities are piping up all over the place (on Zoom) to extol the poisonous evil (their words) that is technology. They talk about radiation being emitted from interactive whiteboards, pour water on any digital platform that ‘gamifies’ learning and wish for a return to a simpler time when learning didn’t involve a screen of any kind.

Girls' Digital Lives

28/05/2025

Girls' Digital Lives

Not a week goes by without questions coming in from our Tooled Up community of parents and educators, who are keen to support the young people with challenges relating to body image, identity, friendship, fairness, confidence, dating and peer pressure.

Loving Learning

21/05/2025

Loving Learning

When, as a recent graduate, I was first considering training to be an English teacher, a careers advisor at my university gave me some advice which has always stuck with me. “Only become a teacher,” she said, “if you want to work with young people. If you like books, go and work in a bookshop.”

The Wonder Years

14/05/2025

The Wonder Years

In this week’s Wednesday Wisdom, Shirley Hayman, our resident Early Years Educator and Tooled Up team member of 35 year’s experience, reflects on her career. She shares snippets of wisdom that she wants to pass onto parents and other educators. She also shares some research into the foundational early years that Tooled Up has highlighted to its school and parent communities.

A Victory for Values

07/05/2025

A Victory for Values

Send tea! I’m in the middle of the notorious ‘double’; the year where two teens in the same household face high stakes exams. My boys have 32 exams over the next month and a half. All the while, parents like us have households to run, personal and work commitments to battle through! It is tough to keep everyone healthy and calm.

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