Nov 16, 2021 | Parenting Tips
Let’s start with the fact that we never stop being a parent. No matter how old our kids are - 5, 10, 20 or 35 - we will always be their parents. My oldest is 24 and I still call her my child, and I am still her parent - but I feel that I have stopped parenting her....Aug 11, 2021 | Boost your Child's Confidence, Parenting Tips
Awareness of your situation If you have more than one child, do you ever do these two things? Do you spend quality time with each of your kids, every day? And yes, time with just one of them, just you and where nothing and nobody else matters, with no phones, chores,...Jan 14, 2021 | Parenting during the lockdown
Today I am having a ‘bad partner day’; it is not that he has done anything particularly bad, he is simply breathing! And things that were just a bit irritating before are SUPER annoying today! That might sound overly dramatic, but that is sometimes how relationships...Oct 4, 2020 | Boost your Child's Confidence, Parenting Tips
Our kids’ behaviours and attitudes can really bring out the worst in us and make us do and say things which upon reflection we think, ‘Wow! That wasn’t my finest hour, I wish I could take that back!’ And I am sure we have all been there where we have (unintentionally)...Sep 15, 2020 | Parenting Tips
A lot of parents have a tendency to speak to their kids about themselves in the 3rd person... ‘mummy is very happy’, ‘daddy got really mad’, ‘you made mummy upset’, ‘you made daddy really proud’ and so on. And yet here is the funny thing - NO ONE did this EVER before...