Sometimes it’s just a simple phrase, or a small idea, but it leaps off my screen and hits me right between the eyes! Sometimes it nags at me quietly for weeks before I realise how important it is. Sometimes it seems like a little thing, but little things can make a big difference. Here are […]
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.
What Parents Should Know About Social Media
These social media tips for parents will help you navigate the tricky road of allowing your kids to use social media. Rather than being fill with doom and gloom, and all the pitfalls to look out for, this list of ten things I want parents to know about social media is fill with lots of […]
Ten Things I Want My Tweens to Know About Social Media
My girls are 12 years old, according to facebook’s rules they are almost old enough for a facebook account. While my girls don’t have facebook, since the start of the year they have had an account on another social media platform, and they use email and other services for school. Social media is becoming part […]
It’s Ok to be Angry.
It’s ok to be angry. As a parent, you are allowed to be angry. In fact , it’s probably good for your kids to see you get angry from time to time. It’s how you behave when you are angry that matters. Ranting and raving and screeching is probably not the best way to express […]
Why You Should Hug Your Kids When They Are Being Horrible.
I am fed up. I am totally over all the outbursts, and the defiance, and the ‘you can’t make me’, and the slammed doors. Right now I really want to drag him back out here by his shirt and force him to pick up that damn pair of shoes and just put the freaking things […]
Parenting Tweens – Learning from Mistakes
She storms off to her room and slams the door. My face is hot, I am sweating and steam is actually coming out of my ears, I’m sure of it, just like in the cartoons! How dare she! How dare she be upset and storm off! I am the one who should be upset, I […]
When Starting School Doesn’t Go Smoothly.
Last week I sent my youngest child off to school. So far he is loving it and is happy to go each morning so I am hoping school will be all smooth sailing for him. After all, he was practically born at school and has spent a lot of time there over the years, plus […]
The Last, First Step, to Letting Go.
He went off to his first day of school with a huge grin on his face and his trademark cheeky eyes. He’s been waiting for this day for a long time. He just couldn’t wrap his head around the fact that he didn’t just start school the day he turned five last June. “But why […]
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