Parents: How To Get Your Bed Back From Your Preschooler
Early childhood development is filled with so many milestones like weaning, learning to crawl, walk or potty train, going off to school, and more. Each of these milestones marks an important separation and move towards independence, often evoking deeply impactful, intense feelings in both the parent and child. When it comes to a child learning […]
Four Important Things That Good Enough Parents Do
If Goldilocks was trying out parents instead of beds or porridge, she’d make a similar choice opting for the ones that are not too hot, not too cold, but just right. Put another way, she wouldn’t want the parents that were too good or too bad but would prefer the parents that were just good […]
4 Effective Ways To Combat Mom Stress
Being a mom is not for sissies. Not only do we have to be physically accessible round the clock, we also have to be emotionally available at all times. With this in mind, it stands to reason that our relationships with our kids are built on a delicate balance between our emotional and physical availability. […]
How To Raise Happy Kids During The Pandemic
Scary title right? Because a year ago we all thought this Covid-thing was temporary but in fact, it’s now likely that even with vaccines lined up, we have a long stretch of pandemic-imposed consequences ahead in one form or another. For little kids, an extended period of stress means something, especially in the younger years […]
How to help your ‘un-arty’ child to be an artist
When kids are little, they all know they can draw. Then at some point something silly starts to happen – art becomes reserved for the ‘artistic’ and for the select few who are technically able to draw “well”. At which point the paint is put away and alternative extra murals are explored. That’s why I […]
Kids Safety Online : A Different Way For Parents To Think About It
Once upon a time your kids were home, and their activities and company were both transparent and predictable. But with social media and online gaming, those days are long gone. Now your kids can be having a virtual house party up in their bedrooms and you’d be none the wiser. So how can us parents […]
The Deeper Meaning Behind “Where The Wild Things Are”
Three Things that Where The Wild Things Are Teaches Us About Tantrums Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is so much more than an adventurous tale. Buried deep in its storyline are meaningful truths about how to think carefully about tantrums and big scary feelings. So here are three important messages in this […]
The Beautiful Meaning Behind The Children’s Book Classic “Goodnight Moon”
The best children’s books become classics because they impart important life lessons and truths, they ease fears and gently introduce kids to the world around them. One of my all-time favourites is the incredible classic “Goodnight Moon” by Margarat Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd (Harper), which has put over 14 000 000 children […]
Parents: What to do with all those spooky thoughts
It’s Halloween month, but it turns out the ‘scaries’ haven’t exactly been confined to October this year! Trick or treating aside, not only has the outside world been a bit scary of late, but so are the thoughts inside our heads. Let’s face it, nothing brings out your insecurities and self-doubt, quite like parenting! This […]
Why confronting reality is vital for resilience
Why have some people managed the uncertainty of the Pandemic, while others have really struggled? In this article I will share an eye-opening formula for resilience and show how a healthy balance of vulnerability and hope can get you through uncertain times, like say, a Pandemic. This is all encompassed in an idea known as […]