This quick guide to organise daily family life is part of our quick guide to life series. Short, sharp advice that tackles the pain points of parenting. The overwhelm of daily family life comes swift and mercilessly. One minute we feel like we’ve got this, the next we are drowning in a sea of paper, …
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This guide to connecting with teens and tweens is part of our larger quick guides series. Enjoy! It’s like kids put on roller skates the minute they turn seven. One minute they’re calling us Mummy and telling us long-winded stories while we snuggle; next we blink and they’re calling us Life Wrecker and grunting at …
More and more I’m convinced that instilling good daily habits for kids is the key to a good life – for both the kids in the future, and their parents right now. As Annie Dillard is famous for saying, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Fostering good daily …
This quick guide to managing tantrums is part of our quick guide to life series. Short, sharp advice that tackles the pain points of parenting. It felt weird at first to call an article “managing tantrums” on a parenting site for older kids. But if the way my 9-year-old carries on when she doesn’t get …
This quick guide to raising tidy kids is part of our quick guide to life series. Short, sharp advice that tackles the pain points of parenting. I reckon parenting would be 99% easier if I was raising tidy kids. Tidy kids would make everything so much better. Don’t you think? It’s one thing to be …
This quick guide to organise family clutter is part of our quick guide to life series. Short, sharp advice that tackles the pain points of parenting. Clutter scratches at my mind. I’m not a minimalist by any stretch of the imagination, but without clear horizontal surfaces, I go a little crazy. Luckily I’m a very neat …