You are more than just a teacher, you have become their mentor, their teacher and their friend.

Today I had a beautiful conversation with an incredible client. I teach two of her girls and I adore teaching them. She was telling me about how much value she sees in the lessons that I have with her girls and that it is much more than just a lesson. She told me that she loves the relationships that I have created with both of her girls. I love it too. They are divine.

All of my students are.

I love how hard each and everyone of them works in every single lesson. I love that even when they get things wrong, they persevere and try their best.

I teach them early on that I really don’t care if they get it right or if they get it wrong. All I want to see is that they are giving it a good go.

I think sometimes we can get fixated on our children getting things right.

I praise failure. After all, that is the only way to grow. By failing.

As a child I was taught to get good grades, do well, to not get things wrong, to not get behind in my studies and just follow everything I was told.

My teaching methodology is very different with my students.

Yes, I want them to get good grades and of course this is what we work towards in our lessons and all of my students do very well in their assessments. However, if there is a day where they don’t do very well, I teach them to not beat themselves up about it and feel low about it. I teach them rather to learn from their mistakes and make the corrections needed to do better next time.

This is a life skill.

One I learnt quite late in life myself.

When I learnt that it was ok to fail. To get things wrong. To try again. My life transformed.

I will teach this to my son very early on. I want him to fail. If he’s not failing then he isn’t challenging himself enough.

This is what I teach my students. If they get great grades every time, then they need to be doing more challenging assessments!

So back to my discussion with my client.

When you sign up for tuition with me or with one of my team, you get far more than a lesson. You get an incredible relationship between myself, your child and yourself. You get a mentor for your child should they ever need on. Trust me they will. You get a friend, someone they can talk to about anything they desire. And of course you get a teacher, someone with a lot of experience who can support them to achieve any goal that they desire to achieve.