Happy

It’s no doubt the #1 response parents make when they ask what they want for their kids in life: “I just want my child to be happy.” “I just want my child to be happy.” We mean it wholeheartedly when we say it. Then we leave that happiness to chance. We talk to our kids …

It’s World Mental Health Day, an important time to reflect on our own mental wellbeing and advocate for the good mental health of others. It got me thinking about mental health versus mental illness. We talk a lot about our ‘mental health’, but is being mentally healthy the same thing as being free from mental …

While impatiently sitting in my car at a set of lights, after rushing from the supermarket, to pick the kids up from school and then off again to someone’s sports practise, I noticed the registration plate of the car in front of me.  It said “IMBUSY”. Article by Astrid McCallum My first thought was to …

We love parties. Love them. Love them, love them, love them. Over the years we’ve held many fun parties that make birthdays speical, but the kids are older now. Most of the kids we know are celebrating their birthday with a few friends, pizza, some video games (boys) and a movie (girls).  Which is absolutely …

By the end of last year, I felt totally depleted and fatigued by doing all the things that we mothers do.  The mothering, the schooling,  the working, the cooking, the washing, the emotional caring, the disciplining, the routine making, the routine keeping, the household managing, the bill paying and the lunch making. Phew!  Why do …

These happiness hacks have been gleaned from the World Happiness Report, a comprehensive study that ranks 156 countries by their reported happiness levels. The report is released annually and joins a long list of reports about being happy. Happiness has been studied for thousands of years starting with Confuscius and Buddha around 500 to 600 …