If your child isn’t engaged with school during COVID (or at other times, really!), it’s time to breathe out. Life is tricky right now and that’s just the way it is. Did you see the viral letter from the Blacktown LGA principal’s office? It’s been doing the rounds for good reason. It’s a huge dose …
Family time
It sux, I know, it’s never nice to be ‘trapped’ in your own home with your kids. Stop the carousel, I wanna get off!!!! But wait. Before you drown in a vat of despair, let’s pause a moment. As the great sage (someone, somewhere) said, “It is what it is.” We can’t change the law, …
“My daughter never comes out of her room!” writes a Mumlyfe mum. “I have tried everything to engage her in family life, but nothing is working. It’s even worse now that we are all on lockdown. I thought this period might help our family come together, but that has not happened. It makes me feel …
Remember when you used to suffer through the 27th showing of Finding Nemo, just to do the whole ‘family movie night’ thing with the kids? I reckon I can still quote that movie from beginning to end (and we still all laugh at how my middle used to be terrified during the scuba diver scene). …
The problem with all the ‘family games’ lists is that teens are highly unlikely to want to settle around the table with their family and play Monopoly. Some teens will, of course. But most would rather pour boiling-hot scorn on their parents’ pathetic attempts at togetherness and flounce from the room in disgust. Slam! The …
We’re all looking for ways to engage the kids in non-screen activities, especially right now when screens often feel like the only option. There has to be a reason why we’re fighting with the kids about screens all. the. time, right? Georgina Manning, Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Director of Wellbeing For Kids tells us why it’s …