10 Steps To Prepare For Children
It’s hard to explain to the uninitiated the changes that a child will bring to your life – nothing is quite the same again. If you are an expectant father (or even mother) or just considering the...
View ArticleHow To Be A Fantastic Father
While Father’s Day past a few weeks ago, it’s always worth thinking about how good fathering matters. It matters to mothers as a supportive father makes a mother’s life easier. It matters to girls....
View ArticleParenting Pearls From VIP Saturday 2013
I recently attended a parenting seminar put on by parenting expert Michael Grose from Parenting Ideas and Bruce Sullivan from Red Hot Relationships. As a firm believer in the saying “you can never...
View ArticleRaising Girls: Help Girls Manage Marshmallow Brain
If you are raising early teens you’ll know instinctively that they are brain-challenged. Early teen boys frequently experience scrambled-brain syndrome. They battle their physiology as their brain...
View ArticleMy Daughter Speaks A Different (Love) Language
For the last year, I’ve been struggling to reduce the distance that’s been growing between my daughter and I. She is only 4 and a half, and our ongoing battles are enough to reduce my behavioural age...
View ArticleSpring cleaning for an organised life
When was the last time that you gave your house a good spring clean? Come on, be honest now, is it something that you always intend to do but never get around to because of 1001 more pressing things...
View ArticleAustralian Children Are Still At Risk Of Drowning
We come from a family of sailors, we live in Australia and have had enough experience with near-drownings that water safety has always been a priority for us as parents. Our children have been able to...
View ArticleThe Mouths Of Babes: “She’s Beautiful”
Often the mouths of babes make us cringe, but not this time… I walked into the kitchen and spotted Miss 7 scooping several teaspoons of Peanut Butter onto a plate as a dip for her celery sticks....
View ArticlePlan To Make School Holidays Fun
Not everyone can live the dream of a family holiday in the sun. For many of us, that idealised notion of packing the car with kids, suitcases and gallons of sunscreen, and then driving off to a...
View ArticleGetting A Puppy And Post-Puppy Depression
Last month I did something unthinkable for a woman at this stage of her life. I said yes to getting a puppy. Yes, I finally capitulated, after 4 years of harassment, to the begging eyes of my husband,...
View ArticleSchool Lunches – Boring To Brilliant
From Boring School Lunches To Brilliant In A Flash With school just around the corner, you’ll no doubt be starting to dread the daily school lunch preparation. Whilst it in itself is rather easy, it’s...
View ArticlePlan To Make School Holidays Fun
Not everyone can live the dream of a family holiday in the sun. For many of us, that idealised notion of packing the car with kids, suitcases and gallons of sunscreen, and then driving off to a...
View ArticleGetting A Puppy And Post-Puppy Depression
Last month I did something unthinkable for a woman at this stage of her life. I said yes to getting a puppy. Yes, I finally capitulated, after 4 years of harassment, to the begging eyes of my husband,...
View ArticleSchool Lunches – Boring To Brilliant
From Boring School Lunches To Brilliant In A Flash With school just around the corner, you’ll no doubt be starting to dread the daily school lunch preparation. Whilst it in itself is rather easy, it’s...
View ArticleThe Day the F-Bomb Dropped
“Mummy, do you know what the ‘F-word’ is?” My eyebrows shot up to my hairline, as I stared at Master Six in terror. Oh dear, here it comes… “Yes, I do… The question is, young man, do YOU?” “Yes....
View ArticleHelp Your Child Shine At School This Year
The single most important step you can take to help your child shine is to be an active participant in your child’s education. Active participation includes: talking to your child about their day,...
View ArticleAn Incentive Chart To Encourage Healthy Eating? I Like The Sound Of That!
Let’s face it. Kids are fussy eaters. It’s almost as if they were born to challenge us every mealtime. To encourage healthy eating and to get the right balance of good foods over the naughty ones is...
View Article3 Creative Tips for Technology Free Family Fun
In our house, we have just about every Apple product imaginable. iPod’s, iPad’s, iPhone’s, iTunes, iMovie, iMac, MacBook Pro and multiples of a few of these. We are definitely a technology house!...
View ArticleThe Things We Do For Love
Do you get a shock these days when the home phone rings? It’s a little bit exciting for me because I don’t have caller ID, which makes it kind of like a lucky dip. It could be Mum telling me(...) The...
View ArticleWho Empties Your Dishwasher?
So who empties your dishwasher? The answer to this question tells a great deal about your parenting philosophy. If you or your partner usually empty your dishwasher then I humbly suggest that you...
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