Why your kids are making tents, playing ‘doctor’ and dodging ‘lava’ during the pandemic
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak my kids have been building tents, houses and forts. My playroom is basically a shanty town of wobbly nooks, draped with towels for roofs and make-shift cardboard walls. All this started during the pandemic and as a person on the road to becoming a Psychoanalyst, I’m interested as […]
How to recognize your child is anxious about the COVID-19 lockdown
In an ideal world, us parents could hold all the stress and protect our kids from big scary feelings. But this is not an ideal world. The truth is that (emotionally speaking) kids are far savvier than what they seem. And while they may not be armed with all the facts about the bigger picture, […]
Why Kids Must Play
You’ve had a long day and all you want to do is crawl into bed and watch something mindless. But, your daughter has a different idea and is still running around like crazy with no sign of shut-down. While we see fun and games (not to mention bedtime routine breakdown), she is actually working out […]
Goal Setting And Vision Boards For Kids
Goal-setting is not necessarily an innate skill. So how do you help a seven-year-old think about their future potential? In the same way we coach our kids to perfect that tennis swing, we must also help our kids acquire goal-setting skills with careful techniques and guidelines. It’s really important to bear in mind that kids are […]
Best Children’s Books About Solving Big Problems
Bedtime is when the day comes to a pause and little bodies can rest. But while bodies sleep, minds are awake during dream time, still hard at work solving big problems. Reading a mindful story pre-sleep can help little minds relax with the understanding that even the biggest problems can be mediated and come to […]
Six Top Tips To Surviving The Holiday Drama, Mama.
We wait all year for the holidays: We love how the pace slows down and how work slips into the background. Families make it a priority to get together. But while ‘tis the season to be jolly, for many people all this intensive family time can be all too complicated. It’s often the in-laws and […]
The Great Homework Debate
The Pros & Cons “Homework”: The dreaded word sparking so much debate of late. While some feel it’s an essential way to reinforce school concepts, others feel it takes away from down time. So is homework a necessary variable, or should we rethink an archaic concept? As the mom of a Grade 1 learner, I […]
Motherhood is way scarier than Halloween
When Halloween rolls around each year we get our kids all dressed up in their spookiest garb and watch them delight in all things creepy and crawly. And boy do they love it! Blood and guts are un-age-restricted and suddenly it’s ok to stab someone in the back (with a plastic retractable blade that is!)Thinking […]
5 Fresh Ways A Parent Can Think About Their Child’s Artwork
Small kids naturally have such confidence when it comes to making art. Then somewhere along the way, art becomes reserved for the ‘artistic’ or ‘talented’. But actually we should be less worried about how ‘well’ their art is made, and far more interested in its restorative qualities. Because it is in the ‘making’ itself that […]
Five Strong Female Characters In Kids Books That Every Girl Should Read
As early as they will sit and listen, our girls should be reading about strong females who model curiosity, kindness and trailblazing. As a mom of two girls, I assumed my daughters’ bookshelves were bursting with stories of strong and resilient little ladies. But when I went to source examples in preparation for this article, […]