As my girls grow up and are now well and truly in the ‘Tween’ years I have discovered that one of my best parenting tool is talking. Yep, just talking. Talk to them. Talk about whatever comes up. Talk about current events. Talk about why people are saying things about Miley Cyrus, ask them what […]
Parenting and Family.
Being a parent is wonderful, but sometimes it’s also just plain hard!
These parenting tips and ideas can help you find ways to make life with kids a little easier, and the real life stories from parents just like you might make you feel a little less alone.
Is Attention Seeking Behaviour Bad?
“Ignore him… he’s just attention seeking.” When I first started teaching 3 and 4 year olds I used the ‘ignore technique’ religiously as a classroom management tool. Ignoring negative behaviours and heaping on praise for positive behaviour works pretty well in a classroom setting if your goal is to have compliant, ‘well behaved’ kids. But […]
The Littlest
Right now Noah is building train tracks as he sings “star ships are meant to fly-i-i, stand up and touch the sky-i-i…” It’s a weird combination of a typical three year old love of trains and his older siblings’ love of pop music. That combination sums up my smallest boy very well. He loves zombies […]
Learn to Love What They Love
Last weekend I took my three big kids to see a really bad movie. Without naming names, it was a poor quality animation, with little story line, designed to make my kids want to spend even more money on pieces of plastic crap and all the merchandise that goes with them. My kids adored it. […]
Too Busy! Help!
Sometimes all the stuff I have to fit into my life makes me want to cry. There is after school activities and writing deadlines, and Dr appointments, and kinder duty, and grocery shopping, and parent teacher meet and greets, and laundry… always so much bloody laundry! And I want to ‘simplify’ I want to stop […]
Involving Your Kids in Giving + IKEA Soft Toys for Education Give Away
In the past two weeks my kids have been receiving gifts, big and small, with much joy and excitement. They have also been making and wrapping and giving gifts, to family and friends, to teachers and people who have helped us through the year, but we have also been giving to people we don’t know, […]
Time for Them, Time for Me – The Parenting Fine Line.
It’s a fine line between giving your kids time when they need it and needing time for yourself. That’s the parenting juggle that is most difficult for me right now. When they were babies I immersed myself in them. I gave them as much of myself as I possibly could, because that is what they […]
Just Say “Hi” – a simple way to help kids help others.
We hear a lot about bullying at school and what everyone should and shouldn’t do about it. My big kids come home from school talking about the strategies their school uses to keep all the students feeling safe and happy, and I am pleased that not only does our school talk about this stuff with […]
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