There is not much scarier than raising teens. We all sniggered and laughed at our ‘threenager’, but nothing is quite as crazy as a teen mid rebellion. They will fight you for independence, but only if it’s not too scary and they don’t need to do much. They will fight you for responsibility, but only …
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Setting screen time for teens is no easy task. We spend a good portion of our kids’ early years steering them away from technology. There’s a lot of research suggesting that kids 0-2 years of age shouldn’t have screens at all and older children’s time on screens should be strictly limited. Try telling that to …
Our eldest child went to a Montessori preschool and I learned such a lot from his lovely teacher. One of the first things she taught me was to foster independence. This meant not doing things for children that they are perfectly capable of doing themselves. When you’re in preschool, this means this like carrying your …
I was just about to rattle off a really great article with my most useful homework tips, but I stopped. I mean, how useful is one person’s advice really? Every home is different, every family is different, every kid and mum and thing is different. So, instead, I asked a bunch of my mum friends …
A teen birthday can feel like a total letdown when you’re a parent. Celebrating birthdays used to mean booking venues, choosing themes, organising cakes and getting revved up with maximum amounts of excitement. But when your children get older, they suddenly don’t want want all the fanfare. The good news is, there are still plenty …
In many, many ways, my kids are spoiled rotten. They lead the kind of childhood that I hope they are proud of when they are old and tired like their mama. But, to me, there is a difference between being spoiled by experience and circumstance and being spoiled because the grown ups in your life …