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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
