Parenting Articles
The kids are bored and outside their routine, with different personalities starting to clash. Add in the stress of the yearly get together with the extended family, and how to manage as a parent? [You might find our article on surviving family get-togethers helpful, too.] Surviving the School Holidays 1. Have empathy for your kids....
Co-parenting is challenge enough. Add the stress of the festive season, and it can be overwhelming. How can you best navigate co-parenting at Christmas and make choices that reduce your holiday stress? 1. Get it all in writing. Texts are short and can be misunderstood – switch to email while making arrangements and ask good questions until...
The holiday season can be the time of year that parenting skills face their greatest challenge. What do you need to think about to make parenting during the holidays easier? Red vs. Green – When Parenting Styles Collide It’s definitely the time of year that different parenting styles can be most apparent. When under stress (or...
Mindfulness has become all the rage. It is a tool embraced by therapists, offered by top corporations to employees, and even trialled in parliament. Now some schools are offering mindfulness to students. What effects might it have on your child? And is mindfulness for children really the panacea they claim? Read on. Isn’t mindfulness just hippy brainwashing?...
Your babies have somehow morphed it young adults off to university or a new job, and it’s just you. Even if you thought you’d love the time to yourself at last, it’s a big life change. If you just can’t feel yourself since the kids left, it could be ’empty nest syndrome’. How can you best...
With other parents joking how glad they are school is back on and they have time to themselves -what if you just don’t feel the same? Do you secretly feel you are experiencing ’empty nest syndrome’ even when you know your children are just at school? Are you suffering low moods, or anxiety? Why am I feeling...
If you have a child who is gifted or talented, it can be something of a mixed blessing. While they may delight you with their brilliance, humour and originality, they can also be at risk of a range of social and emotional issues. How can you make sure that your child’s gift of intelligence doesn’t...
With its concept of being fully present instead of lost in your thoughts, and its tendency to make one calmer and more focused, it’s easy to see how mindfulness is now being embraced as a tool of good parenting. [Want more information on this ancient Eastern practise that even has new forms of therapy formed around it? Read...
Most parents love and enjoy their children and want only the best for them. But in the last few decades things have not always gone according to plan. The rise of over-parenting has lead to a generation that seems allergic to independence. [Read our connected piece on “the Rise of Helicopter Parenting“]. The good news is...
It used to be a given that your child would eventually grow up and leave home. Not so much nowadays. The latest generation of ‘millenials’ see parents dealing with their children wanting to live at home even after university, or handling ‘boomerang kids’ who move out but rush back the second life gets too hard....
