It’s time to stop telling our kids to “be careful”
Our instinct to keep our children safe may be causing them more harm than good. Here are 3 reasons why.
What to do when my child is out-of-control
Learning to do this will have you yelling less and able to set confident boundaries, and it will help you meet your child’s emotional needs.
Developing social skills for children in a post-COVID world
5 tips to help develop social skills for children in your “COVID baby” that will enable them to build meaningful relationships.
Raising an emotionally intelligent child
Psychologists are warning parents the difference to raising an emotionally intelligent child lies in the reactions.
The one wrong thing we’ve all been teaching our kids
Many of us think encouraging and helping our kids to chase their passion and to be happy is the ultimate parenting goal. We may be wrong.
Raising strong daughters in the 21st century
Two leading parenting writers—Maggie Dent and Madonna King—share the problems our girls face today, and the secret to raising strong daughters.
Cyberbullying: Help for your child
Bullying today is no longer confined to the school grounds. Here are 7 ways to provide our kids with cyberbullying help.
Building resilience in children
Your child’s coping skills can be directly linked to how they react to difficult situations. It’s why building resilience in children is so important.
Why I want my kids to fail
I have posed a challenge to my kids: To try something that they may potentially be bad at.
When your child wants to quit
Psychologist Collett Smart walks us through the strategies to help teach your child to embrace challenges, persevere and grow from mistakes.
This is what being the wife of a firefighter really means
hen my husband has to go, he has to go. That means whatever plans I may have had go out the window as I’m left to deal with all the usual parenting stuff solo.