‘One on one time’ – spending individual time with just one child, making time to connect, giving them personal attention, filling their cup – this is one of my best parenting tools, and one I find myself turning to again and again as my kids get older. When one of my kids is out of […]
There are More Ways to Communicate Than Just Talking.
As my children grow up I am constantly reminded of how important communication is. Communicating with my kids helps me teach them and learn from them. It helps me to know what is going on in their lives and to share what is going on in mine. It helps us stay connected. Talking with my […]
Easy Ways to Connect With Older Kids
One of the best parenting hacks I know is to make an effort to really connect with your kids. Even if you are short on time, these easy ways to connect with older kids can really help to flip your relationship from negative to positive. “Research shows that we need at least five positive interactions […]
Holding Close and Letting Go
Parenting is all about keeping our kids close, and at the same time letting them go. This is the paradox of parenting. We need to hold our kids close. We need support them and love them unconditionally. We need to always provide a safe place for them to return to. We need to build a […]
It’s Not Personal.
Can I let you in on a little secret about parenting that I figured out recently… It’s not personal. The preschooler is not lying on the floor of the supermarket screaming just to see if he can drive me insane. The school boy didn’t decide to punch his brother in front of the whole school […]
Talk to Your Kids
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 […]
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. […]
Overreacting or Evil TV Show?
My girls discovered The Sleepover Club TV show a few weeks back and they love it. This second series of the Australian TV show is about a group of girls who are part of, you guessed it, ‘the sleepover club’. They are perhaps a little older than my girls, live an idyllic life in a […]