Tag: school holidays

How to navigate the school holidays with high school kids

How to navigate school holidays with high school kids

School holidays with high school kids is a very different challenge to when the kids were in primary school. The holiday program arrangements that once enabled parents to juggle work commitments may…

Hobbies for teens in lockdown and beyond

16 hobbies for teens in lockdown and beyond

Here in Sydney, we are well into our second lockdown for this pandemic. With no end in sight, all the days have begun to look extremely similar. So, it’s time to fix…

Things to do in lockdown school holidays

Great ideas for lockdown school holidays from a happiness expert

Lockdown school holidays are upon us again. In pre-pandemic days, many parents and carers would be busily planning holidays interstate or overseas, booking in play dates, organising day trips or tee-ing up…

Helping our kids slow down and do nothing

It’s the holidays and you’re too busy with work / too broke in general to plan a getaway for the kids. You’re also hoping they’ll slow down and do nothing, as every…

Make the most of school holidays at home

Make the most of school holidays at home

I’ve seen a lot of articles around about ‘staying sane during school holidays at home’ and I get it, I really, truly do. The holidays at home are hard work because they…

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