3 Ways To Support Your Kids Return to School
No one could have predicted the roller coaster that 2020 would present. After an horrendous start with fires and floods, a world pandemic smacked us in the face. For many of our little people, this meant settling into a new school year, only to have the rugged pulled from under [...]
Don’t want to teach your kids? Then don’t.
You didn’t sign up for this. I heard the collective sighs of ‘WTF’ upon hearing the news that education is to take place at home. I am a qualified teacher and I was one of those people! I want to be my kids' mum – not their teacher. Regardless of [...]
5 Ways To Keep Structure At Home During Isolation
If you’re like me your eyes are glued to the media, learning how the latest updates of this crazy pandemic will impact on our lives. It started a while ago as something ‘other people’ have to worry about, but quickly nudged its way into our every day living… so much [...]
3 Ways To React When Your Kids Are Trying To Kill Each Other
It starts from a very early age. The yells and screams from the next room, shortly followed by tears and ‘MUUUUUMMMMMM!’ You guessed it, siblings at war. Why are our kids so determined to win the battle against the person who they supposedly love? It can be over the smallest [...]
Feeding The Monster… How does Meal Time Fussiness Begin?
The famous saying 'I was the perfect parent before I had children' rings true to many parents. Judging eyes or unwanted opinions may say things to you like "If that was my child, they'd have to eat it or starve", or "what that child needs is a good smack!" However, [...]
Are you making these mistakes on your weekend?
It’s always around this time of year that I realize the summer has been hanging around for quite a while and I haven’t made the most of it. During winter months I would dream about warm days at the beach, the kids blissfully catching some Vitamin D, away from their [...]
Are You Lying To Yourself?
How often do you check in with yourself? I mean really assess where you’re at on the happiness scale of life? I often talk about getting caught up in the rat race of life, and this can be good and bad. It can be good, because if you are rating [...]
5 Podcasts For Busy Parents
In the past couple of years I started listening to podcasts. The odd friend would ask if I’d listened to this one or that one and I began to think perhaps I should give them a go. Originally, my ‘saved’ library was filled with self-help, mindfulness and parenting. I would [...]
Why We Need To Fight With Our Kids
It’s never nice to experience conflict. When it comes to our kids, there are many reasons for us to feel frustrated… leaving the towel on the floor, the dishes in the sink, attitude and rolling eyes – the list goes on. While we all strive to have amazing relationships with [...]
5 Ways To Juggle a Family And Work Successfully
My life is a timetabling nightmare – and I’m guessing I’m not the Lone Ranger there. With two children who have school and extra curricular activities 5 days a week, I have two jobs and a partner who works the best part of 12 hours a day (when he’s not [...]