‘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
Children are born with a vivid imagination and full of creativity. This is nature at its best and our job as parents (and teachers) is to nurture it – but why and how? Creativity and imagination is key to developing a child’s social skills, decision-making skills, confidence, self-expression, independence and resilience. It can also help… Continue Reading
A couple of months ago, we were in the throws of buying a house. We had been back and forth from the city we wanted to buy in for about four months and it was a three-hour drive every time we wanted to look at a house – it was a big ask to drive… Continue Reading
In a modern-day quest to find success, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington explores the parameters of what it means to ‘live a good life’ in her recent book, Thrive. Being a huge success in her industry being named 12 in the Forbes list for Most Influential Women in Media and the… Continue Reading