‘Look at those poor people Mummy, they have to move’, said my 6 year old daughter as we drove past a removal truck in someone’s driveway. We had just moved into our third house in five years and she was not coping well with the change. Moving with kids can certainly be challenging. My daughter… Continue Reading
In 2010, Sky News presenter and mum to a 9 month old boy, Jacinta Tynan wrote an article for the Sunday Life magazine titled ‘Is motherhood really that hard’ saying she found motherhood easy and she didn’t know what everyone was complaining about…. it opened a can of worms. (Read the article here). Through her… Continue Reading
‘If you judge people, you have no time to love them’ Mother Teresa Hands up who has been judged for saying the ‘wrong’ thing, wearing the ‘wrong’ clothes, driving the ‘wrong’ car, being the ‘wrong’ weight, living in the ‘wrong’ house, eating the ‘wrong’ food, living the ‘wrong’ life? When I was on SBS Insight… Continue Reading
On Tuesday night this week, I was in the audience of SBS Insight talking about sibling rivalry. I admitted on national television that my kids fight – a lot! Some days (especially school holidays) it can be 6 or 7 times a day. I even said that I let my kids fight. My kids appeared… Continue Reading
On the blog today, guest writer and parent researcher, Ashley Trexler from LiesAboutParenting.com is talking about why our kids have tantrums and how we can stop them. Ashley is strongly aligned with the Positive Parenting philosophy and has some great solutions to offer that really work when it comes to tantrums and power struggles with your kids… I caught… Continue Reading
![‘They are not just playing’ – The Importance of Play Based Learning in Early Childhood [Guest Post]](http://annapartridge.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/the-imporance-of-play-300x300.jpg)
This week on the blog, Early Childhood Teacher, mother and blogger over at Teacher Types, Lauren Hunt is sharing her view on the importance of play in Early Childhood and gives some great examples of how to incorporate play in various settings. Letting your kids play is well documented to have positive impacts on cognitive… Continue Reading